Positive AGM For Cooper

At Cooper Tire’s AGM chairman, president and chief executive officer Thomas A. Dattilo emphasised the successful implementation of the Company’s strategic plan and post-acquisition restructuring. “Investors are recognising our accomplishments and our future opportunities and the improvement in our share price is beginning to reflect that,” he said.

Shareholders reelected Edsel D. Dunford and Dennis J. Gormley to new three-year terms as members of the Board and elected John F.

Fiedler to his first three-year term as a director.Following the Annual Meeting, the board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of 10.5 cents per share on common stock, payable June 28, 2002, to stockholders of record on June 3, 2002.