text: **INVESTOR RELATIONS INQUIRIES SHOULD** **ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K**
  
  **BE DIRECTED TO:** **The Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc.**
  **Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal**
  **MARK O. EISELE**
  **year ended June 30, 2012, including the**
  Vice President – Chief Financial Officer 
  **financial statements and schedules thereto,**
   & Treasurer 
  **is available at our website at**
  Applied Industrial Technologies 
  **www.Applied.com. It is also available**
  1 Applied Plaza 
  **without charge upon written request to the**
  Cleveland, OH 44115-5014 
  **Vice President – Chief Financial Officer &**
  Telephone: 216/426-4000, Fax: 216/426-4845 
  **Treasurer at the address shown.**
  
  **ANNUAL MEETING**
  The Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held 
  at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, October 23, 2012, at the 
  Corporate Headquarters of Applied Industrial 
  Technologies, 1 Applied Plaza, East 36th and 
  Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115. 