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D E S I G N :  S E Q U E L  S T U D I O ,  N E W  Y O R K
S C H E D U L E  O F  Q U A R T E R L Y  
R E S U L T S
The Company operates on a fiscal year ending 
on the Saturday nearest December 31. Quar-
terly results are typically announced within 25 
days after the end of each quarter, and audited 
results are typically announced within 40 days 
after year-end.
F I S C A L  2 0 0 4  
Q U A R T E R - E N D  D A T E S
1st Quarter: Saturday, April 3
2nd Quarter: Saturday, July 3
3rd Quarter: Saturday, October 2
4th Quarter: Saturday, January 1
A N N U A L  M E E T I N G
The Company’s annual shareholders’ meeting 
will be held at 10:30 a.m. on May 4, 2004, at 
the Holiday Inn, Highways 61 & 38 North, 
Muscatine, Iowa. Shareholders and other 
interested investors are encouraged to attend 
the meeting.
I N V E S T O R  R E L A T I O N S
Send inquiries to:
Investor Relations
HON INDUSTRIES Inc.
414 East Third Street
Muscatine, IA 52761
Telephone: 563.264.7400
Fax: 563.264.7655
E-mail: investorrelations@honi.com
C O R P O R A T E  H E A D Q U A R T E R S
HON INDUSTRIES Inc.
414 East Third Street
P.O. Box 1109
Muscatine, IA 52761-0071
Telephone: 563.264.7400
Fax: 563.264.7217
Website: www.honi.com
I N D E P E N D E N T  P U B L I C  
A C C O U N T A N T S
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
One North Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
C O M M O N  S T O C K
HON INDUSTRIES common stock trades 
on the New York Stock Exchange under the 
symbol: HNI. Stock price quotations can be 
found in major daily newspapers and The 
Wall Street Journal .
T R A N S F E R  A G E N T
Shareholders may report a change of address 
or make inquiries by writing or calling:
Computershare Investor Services, LLC
2 North LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60602
Telephone: 312.588.4991
I N V E S T O R  I N F O R M A T I O N
Statements in this report that are not strictly historical, including statements as to 
plans, objectives, and future financial performance, are “forward-looking” state-
ments that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities 
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and 
unknown risks, which may cause the Company’s actual results in the future to dif-
fer materially from expected results. These risks include, among others: 
• competition within the office furniture and fireplace industries, including 
competition from imported products and competitive pricing; 
• increases in the cost of raw materials, including steel, which is the Company’s 
largest raw material category;
• increases in the cost of health care benefits provided by the Company;
• reduced demand for the Company’s storage products caused by changes in 
office technology; including the change from paper record storage to electronic 
record storage; 
• the effects of economic conditions, on demand for office furniture, customer 
insolvencies and related bad debts and claims against the Company that it 
received preferential payments; 
• changes in demand and order patterns from the Company’s customers, par -
ticularly its top ten customers, which represented approximately 36% of net sales 
in 2003; 
• issues associated with acquisitions and integration of acquisitions; 
• the ability of the Company to realize cost savings and productivity improve -
ments from its cost containment and business simplification initiatives;
• the ability of the Company to realize financial benefits from investments in new 
products; 
• the ability of the Company’s distributors and dealers to successfully market 
and sell the Company’s products; 
• the availability and cost of capital to finance planned growth; and
• other risks, uncertainties, and factors described from time to time in the 
Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 
We caution the reader that the above list of factors may not be exhaustive. The