CLEVELAND, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Parker Hannifin Corporation (NYSE: PH) announced that Parker's President and Chief Executive Officer Don Washkewicz will be presenting at the Smith Barney Citigroup Global Industrial Manufacturing Conference in New York City on March 9, 2004, at 1:30 p.m. ET. The presentation will be simultaneously web cast and may be accessed on the company's investor information site at www.phstock.com . The presentation will be archived on Parker's investor web site for two weeks.

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With annual sales exceeding $6 billion, Parker Hannifin is the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of commercial, mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. The company employs more than 46,000 people in 44 countries around the world. Parker has increased its annual dividends paid to shareholders for 47 consecutive years, among the top five longest-running dividend-increase records in the S&P 500 index. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.parker.com , or its investor information site at www.phstock.com .

CONTACT: Media, Lorrie Paul Crum, VP - Corp. Communications, +1-216-896-2750, or lcrum@parker.com, or Financial Analysts, Pamela Huggins, Vice President - Treasurer, +1-216-896-2240, or phuggins@parker.com, both of Parker Hannifin Corporation
Web site: http://www.phstock.com