FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ABS HONORS WANN AS DIVISION 2 DISTRICT SALES MANAGER OF THE YEAR

DEFOREST, WISCONSIN - October 28, 2004 –Roger Wann, ABS District Sales Manager from Texas has received the District Sales Manager of the Year Award for ABS Division 2.

"Roger has been an employee of ABS Global for the past 16 years and this past fiscal year had to be one of his finest," states Beef Division Manager, Dwight Williams. "He has taken on additional responsibilities with the company and this coupled with his strong ability to find, recruit and train ABS Professional Representatives are a winning combination for his overall District sales performance."

As a District Sales Manager, he enjoys working with the producers and seeing the success of improved genetics in his customer’s herds. Along with being an ABS District Sales Manager, Wann is still actively involved with his family’s Angus operation, which consists of primarily ABS-sired progeny.

The District Sales Manager of the Year Award, is based on a formula including sales units, sales revenue and percent increase in sales, and was presented to Wann at a banquet held in conjunction with the 2004 Division 2 Representative Round Table.

Headquartered in DeForest, Wisconsin, ABS Global is the world-leading provider of bovine genetics, reproduction services, technologies and uddercare products. Marketing in more than 70 countries around the globe, ABS has been at the forefront of animal genetics and technology since its founding in 1941. ABS Global is part of Genus Breeding, a division of Genus plc.

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To receive the contents of this release electronically, please contact Alice Langer at alanger@absglobal.com, or (608) 846-6203.

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