ART'S WAY MANUFACTURING ANNOUNCES FISCAL YEAR 2011 ANNUAL SHAREHOLDER MEETING DATE
Art's Way Will Provide A Bus Tour Of Manufacturing Facilities For Shareholders
ARMSTRONG, Iowa, March 2, 2012 - Art's Way Manufacturing Co., Inc. (NASDAQ: ARTW), announces its fiscal year 2011 annual meeting of shareholders which will be held at 9:00 am Central Time on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at The Hotel Julien, 200 Main Street, Dubuque, Iowa, 52001, 800-798-7098. www.hoteljuliendubuque.com . Registration begins at 8:45 am. The record date for purpose of shares to be voted is close of business on Monday, March 5, 2012.
For all interested shareholders, Art's Way will provide a bus tour of their manufacturing facilities in eastern Iowa including Art's Way Vessels in Dubuque, Art's Way Manufacturing in West Union and Art's Way Scientific in Monona. Lunch and refreshments will be served during the tour. If interested in going on the tour, please call Amanda at 712-864-3131 Ext 287 for reservations.
About Art's Way Manufacturing, Inc.
Art's Way manufactures and distributes farm machinery niche products including animal feed processing equipment, sugar beet defoliators and harvesters, land maintenance equipment, crop shredding equipment, plows, hay and forage equipment and top and bottom drive augers. After-market service parts are also an important part of the Company's business. We have two wholly owned subsidiaries. Art's Way Vessels, Inc. manufactures pressurized tanks and vessels and Art's Way Scientific, Inc. manufactures modular animal housing buildings and modular laboratories.
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Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc. is a manufacturer of agricultural equipment and specialized in modular science and agricultural buildings. The Company operates through two segments: Agricultural Products and Modular Buildings. The Agricultural Products segment manufactures a variety of specialized farm machinery under its own label, including portable and stationary animal feed processing equipment and related attachments used to mill and mix feed grains into custom animal feed rations; a line of forage equipment consisting of forage boxes, bale processors, running gear, and dump boxes; a line of manure spreaders; sugar beet harvesting equipment, and a line of dirt work equipment. The Modular Buildings segment produces, sells and leases modular buildings, which are custom designed to meet the specific research needs of its customers. The buildings it commonly produces range from basic swine buildings to complex containment research laboratories.