Peterson Manufacturing is headquartered in a modern 670,000 square foot facility located in Grandview, Missouri-a suburb of Kansas City. This facility houses management, sales, engineering, R&D, manufacturing and assembly, purchasing, shipping, receiving and warehousing departments.

Staffing this facility are some of the most dedicated people you will ever meet. Peterson's more than 650 non-union associates are the real key of our success and growth. The pride our associates put into their work is noticeable to customers who visit our facility. Many of our associates are second and third-generation, and all of them share in the company's profits through employee stock ownership and profit sharing.

With its vast production facilities, warehousing space and dedicated associates, Peterson maintains a remarkable 97% fill-rate and order-turnaround of three-to-five days.

Through the years, Peterson has grown from a small, family business to a multi-industry corporation. During this transformation, leadership continually focused on creating the highest quality product possible. This core value is perhaps best reflected in the fact that Peterson was one of the first 40 manufacturers in the entire United States to obtain ISO 9001/QS-9000 registration.

Specifically, Peterson was the very first US vehicle safety lighting manufacturer to obtain this important registration that lets customers know that our quality systems meet a standard of excellence that is internationally understood and accepted.

Quality is also why Peterson builds products that not only meet federal specifications, but also exceed them by 25% and why we boast the industry's lowest return rate on a line of over 2,000 products.

1. Proprietary OEM
   • Harley-Davidson
   • Caterpillar
   • John Deere
   
   
2. Non-Proprietary OEM
   • International
   • McNeilus
   • Timpte
   • Heil
   
   
3. Fleets
   • Allied Waste
   • Transport America
   • Waste Management
   
   
4. Other Customers
   • Wal-Mart
   • O'Reilly Automotive
   • Fleetwood
   • EZ Loader

Peterson Manufacturing was founded in 1945 and has been under the present ownership since 1956. The company has enjoyed more than five decades of continuous financial growth. We are privately owned with the majority ownership in the Armacost family, who are active in the day-to-day affairs of the business.

Because we are a privately held company, we do not release full financial statements to outside parties. However, we fell it is important for prospective customers to have a good sense of comfort about our ability to meet their needs. Peterson and its subsidiary companies had net sales for year 2007 of $315,000,000. Our net worth on November 30, 2007 was 100,000,000.

Peterson's banking reference for the past 50 years is UMB Bank, N./A., Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Robert P. Elbert, Senior Vice President, may be contacted at (816) 860-7116, if you desire. UMB Bank has extended to Peterson and its affiliates $52,000,000 in unsecured lines of credit, not all of which was used at year-end or currently. We can also furnish you with supplier references to satisfy any credit needs. You can also access additional information about Peterson from Dun & Bradstreet's report on us at DUNS No. 00-714-6095.

• Constantly expanding product line covering more than 2,200 different types of vehicle safety lights, reflectors, mirrors, antennas and other related products.
  
  
• Our Piranha® brand of LED lights sets the industry standard in LED technology.
  
  
• We supply the majority of all light- and medium-duty trailers built. This includes utility, landscape, boat, livestock, gooseneck, tilt-bed and cargo vehicles.
  
  
• Our catalog features over 250 new products including 75 new LED lights.

Our ability to recognize and meet customer needs with better ideas is a tribute to the dedication of our people, as well as our commitment to quality and innovation. These attributes are the heart of a growth story that's taken Peterson from a small manufacturing shop to a state-of-the-art, 670,000-square-foot facility serving customers worldwide. Today our growing corporate family includes twelve unique divisions-each specializing in transportation-related industries, and each focusing on meeting tomorrow's needs with cutting-edge innovation and old-fashioned quality. It's a combination that's brought us a long way, and we're not about to change it.