FOAMEX NAMES JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER TO ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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LINWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA, December 27, 2001 - Foamex International Inc. (NASDAQ: FMXI), the leading manufacturer of flexible polyurethane and advanced polymer foam products, announced today that Julie Nixon Eisenhower, 53, has been elected to the company's Board of Directors, increasing it to ten members.
 

Eisenhower is an editor, author of several books and public speaker who has lectured extensively throughout the United States. While Assistant Managing Editor of the Saturday Evening Post, she was instrumental in establishing a book division for the Post's parent corporation. She maintains close relationships with prominent members of government and industry around the world, which were initially developed during the Nixon Presidency.
 

She serves on the board of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and in an advisory capacity at the Nixon Center, a bipartisan foreign policy think tank in Washington D.C. She also serves on the board of the Eisenhower Foundation at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library. A graduate of Smith College, Eisenhower received a master's degree from Catholic University in 1971.
 

Foamex, headquartered in Linwood, Pennsylvania, is the world's leading producer of comfort cushioning for bedding, furniture, carpet cushion and automotive markets. The company also manufactures high-performance polymers for diverse applications in the industrial, aerospace, defense, electronics and computer industries as well as filtration and acoustical applications for the home. Revenues for 2000 were $1.3 billion.
 

For more information visit the Foamex web site at http://www.foamex.com.
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Martha Buckley