QUINCY, IL -- (Marketwire) -- 05/11/09 -- Gardner Denver, Inc. (NYSE: GDI) today announced that Barry L. Pennypacker, President and Chief Executive Officer, and the Company's Executive Team will ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on May 12, 2009 to commemorate the Company's 150th year of innovation and 15th anniversary of its spin-off and again becoming a publicly traded company. In tradition with the exchange's daily closing, the bell ringing will occur at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and will be webcast via the internet on the homepage of www.nyse.com.

The original company, Gardner Governor Company, was established in 1859 in Quincy, Illinois. During the past 150 years, Gardner Denver, with 2008 revenues of approximately $2.0 billion, has evolved into a worldwide leader in the manufacture of reciprocating, rotary and vane compressors, liquid ring pumps and blowers for various industrial and transportation applications, pumps used in the petroleum and industrial market segments, and other fluid transfer equipment serving chemical, petroleum, and food industries. The Company's products and engineered solutions, sold throughout the world under many different brands and channels of distribution, are used for applications in virtually every end market sector, ranging from industrial manufacturing and pneumatic conveying, to environmental processes, to healthcare applications and energy production.

"The ringing of the New York Stock Exchange closing bell is a great way to celebrate our Company's long and rich history as well as our 15th year of being publicly traded," said Barry L. Pennypacker, Gardner Denver's President and Chief Executive Officer. "We are proud of the accomplishments we have made as a company over the past century and a half and look forward to continuing to build on the strong platform that our founder, Robert Gardner, initiated in 1859. Our customers, employees and stockholders have been critical to our success and we take this opportunity to thank every stakeholder for being instrumental in our Company's past and future successes."

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