Bowne Announces Availability of New 2004 EDGAR/SEDAR Calendar Complimentary Calendar Details SEC Filing Deadlines for 2004 NEW YORK, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bowne Financial Print, the world's largest financial printer and leading EDGAR filer, today announced availability of its recently published 2004 EDGAR/SEDAR Calendar that details significant SEC and SEDAR filing deadlines. This year's calendar highlights filing dates for accelerated and non-accelerated EDGAR and SEDAR filers. "Publication of the new 2004 EDGAR/SEDAR Calendar continues Bowne's commitment to maintaining and advancing our industry leadership in bringing Bowne clients an array of securities-related resources and tools," said John Batt, Vice President of Marketing for Bowne Financial Print. "Our publications, such as this calendar, our soon-to-be-released Preparing For Your 2004 Annual Meeting guidebook, as well as SecuritiesConnect(TM), our industry-leading, Web-based resource for securities and compliance-related information, all offer our clients not only the up-to-date securities and regulatory news they need, but the kind of interpretation, insight and analysis that gives them the critical perspective they need," Batt added. A printed copy of the calendar is available at your local Bowne office or can be downloaded for free at http://www.bowne.com/. About Bowne & Co., Inc. Bowne & Co., Inc., founded in 1775, is a global leader in providing high-value solutions that empower our clients' communications. * Bowne Financial Print: The most comprehensive array of transactional and compliance-related services to create, manage, translate and distribute mission-critical documents. * Bowne Enterprise Solutions: Digital printing and electronic delivery of personalized communications that enable companies to strengthen relationships and increase market leadership. * Bowne Business Solutions: A full array of outsourcing services in word processing, desktop publishing, information technology, litigation resource management and office document services. * Bowne Global Solutions: A broad range of localization services, which help companies adapt communications developed in one country to meet the social, cultural and business requirements for successful distribution in another. Bowne & Co. combines all of these capabilities with superior customer service, new technologies, confidentiality and integrity to manage, repurpose and distribute a client's information to any audience, through any medium, in any language, anywhere in the world. For more information, visit us at http://www.bowne.com/. DATASOURCE: Bowne & Co., Inc. CONTACT: Bill Coughlin of Bowne & Co., Inc., +1-212-931-1189, Web site: http://www.bowne.com/

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