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Lakeland Industries Appoints Duane W. Albro to Board of Directors

Thu. April 23, 2009; Posted: 09:26 AM
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RONKONKOMA, NY, Apr 23, 2009 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- LAKE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Lakeland Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: LAKE), a leading manufacturer of industrial protective clothing for industry, municipalities, healthcare and to first responders on the federal, state and local levels, today announced the appointment of Duane W. Albro to its Board of Directors, effective April 17, 2009. The addition of Mr. Albro brings the Company's total number of directors to 7, a majority (being 5 of 7) of which are defined as independent in accordance with NASDAQ regulations.

"Duane brings to Lakeland Industries a wealth of experience and leadership capabilities essential in today's competitive operating environment, making him a strong addition to our Board," said Lakeland's President and Chief Executive Officer Christopher J. Ryan.

Duane Albro serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Warwick Valley Telephone Co. (NASDAQ: WWVY). Throughout most of his career, he has served in executive and operational management capacities of increasing responsibility for blue chip publicly traded companies such as NYNEX and Bell Atlantic and performing private and public company turnarounds for private equity investors such as Carlyle Group and Columbia Capital Management among others. An active participant in industry trade groups, Mr. Albro has served on the White House Advisory Council on Technology in Education and provided testimony to Congress on the benefits of technology used in education. He has also served on the boards of several recognized universities and foundations, and has participated in various philanthropic endeavors and economic development initiatives.

About Lakeland Industries, Inc.:

Lakeland Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: LAKE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) manufactures and sells a comprehensive line of safety garments and accessories for the industrial protective clothing market. The Company's products are sold by a direct sales force and through independent sales representatives to a network of over 1,000 safety and mill supply distributors. These distributors in turn supply end user industrial customers such as chemical/petrochemical, automobile, steel, glass, construction, smelting, janitorial, pharmaceutical, and high technology electronics manufacturers, as well as hospitals and laboratories. In addition, Lakeland supplies federal, state, and local government agencies, fire and police departments, airport crash rescue units, the Department of Defense, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and many other federal and state agencies. For more information concerning Lakeland, please visit the Company online at www.lakeland.com.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions as described from time to time in Press Releases and 8-K(s), registration statements, annual reports and other periodic reports and filings filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or made by management. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, which address Lakeland's expectations of sources or uses for capital or which express the Company's expectation for the future with respect to financial performance or operating strategies can be identified as forward-looking statements. As a result, there can be no assurance that Lakeland's future results will not be materially different from those described herein as "believed," "projected," "planned," "intended," "anticipated," "estimated" or "expected," which words reflect the current view of the Company with respect to future events. We caution readers that these forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. The Company hereby expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statements to reflect any change in the Company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which such statement is based.

Contacts:
Lakeland Industries
631-981-9700
Christopher Ryan
CEO
Email Contact
Gary Pokrassa
CFO
Email Contact
701-7 Koehler Avenue, Suite 7
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779
www.lakeland.com

Darrow Associates for Lakeland Industries
631-367-1866
Jordan Darrow
Email Contact


SOURCE: Lakeland Industries, Inc.

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