For:  CAREFREE TIRE; 5141 Firestone Place, South Gate, CA 90280

Contact: Michael Isser or Mark Smith (516) 868-6645; FAX: (516) 868-7166; e-mail:info@isserpr.com              For Immediate Release

Home Depot Offers First Wheelbarrow with Flat-Free Tire

In Special Spring Promotion

            Home Depot is offering homeowners the first wheelbarrow with a tire that never goes flat in a special spring promotion designed to make every gardener’s dream an affordable reality.

            The announcement was made by Bill Hory, General Manager of Carefree Tire L.L.C. – the nation’s leading supplier of flat-free tires for lawn/garden equipment and was the first company to supply Home Depot with flat-free tires as replacement wheelbarrow tires.

            Mr. Hory said the tires come with a lifetime guarantee and would be available at various locations on a select number of wheelbarrow models priced at only $59.95.

            “Although professional contractors have had the option to purchase the Carefree Tire as a replacement tire or as standard equipment on many brands of wheelbarrows during the last few years, this will be the first time a retail chain like Home Depot is offering a flat free tire as standard equipment,” he added.

            The Carefree flat-free tire is made with a unique polyurethane technology and a novel manufacturing method of centrifugal casting to trap hundreds of thousands of microscopic air cells in a matrix of incredibly tough polymer elastomer. The unique micro-cellular polyurethane tires handle like air-filled tires and will not go flat, even if punctured, gouged, subjected to extreme loads or allowed to sit idle for months at a time.  They are lightweight and can move heavy loads with up to 40 percent less effort.

            For more information, write to Carefree Tire, 5141 Firestone Place, South Gate, Calif. 90280; call toll free 877-FLATPROOF (877-352-8776), or visit the Carefree Tire website at www.carefreetire.com.

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(March 2003)