Meeting Available on Web Cast or via Conference Call

NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 05/12/09 -- Bowne & Co., Inc. (NYSE: BNE) will hold its Annual Stockholders Meeting at 10:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, May 19, 2009. The meeting will take place at Bowne's New York office located at 55 Water Street in New York City.

If you would like to attend the meeting in person, please contact Scott Spitzer at (212) 658-5805. The meeting will also be available via web cast and teleconference. To register for the web cast, visit http://www.bowne.com/annualmeetingwebcast. To listen to the teleconference, please dial (877) 795-3646 for domestic and (719) 325-4792 for international calls.

A telephone replay of the call, as well as an archived web cast, will be available at http://www.bowne.com/annualmeetingwebcast from 1:00 p.m., May 19, through midnight, May 30, 2009. To access the rebroadcast, please dial (888) 203-1112 for domestic and (719) 457-0820 for international calls; passcode #: 4394633.

About Bowne

Bowne & Co., Inc. (NYSE: BNE) provides shareholder and marketing communications services around the world. Dealmakers rely on Bowne to handle critical transactional communications with speed and accuracy. Compliance professionals turn to Bowne to prepare and file regulatory and shareholder communications online and in print. Investment managers and third party fund administrators count on Bowne's integrated solutions to streamline their document processes and produce high quality communications for their shareholders. Marketers look to Bowne to create and distribute customized, one-to-one communications on demand. With 2,800 employees in 55 offices around the globe, Bowne has met the ever-changing demands of its clients for more than 230 years. For more information, please visit www.bowne.com.