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Franklin Lakes, NJ (August 14, 1998) -- Becton Dickinson is on the third annual list of IndustryWeek's 100 Best-Managed Companies.

Candidates for IndustryWeek's 100 Best-Managed Companies were chosen by IW editors from the IndustryWeek 1000, a list of the world's largest publicly held manufacturing companies released in June. Two companies of the Dun & Bradstreet Corp. - Dun & Bradstreet and Moody's Investors Service - supplied the data for the IW 1000.

The 100 Best-Managed Companies were selected after a four-step process: analysis of the company's financial performance; review of a questionnaire mailed to each IW 1000 company; research into each company's practices in areas such as philanthropy and safety; and voting by a panel of more than 80 business leaders, analysts, and academicians from around the world.

"This award is an excellent demonstration of our company's progress toward becoming a high performance organization on the forefront of innovative management practices," said Clateo Castellini.

"IndustryWeek's 100 Best-Managed Companies demonstrate superior, consistent management performance, in good times and bad," said John Brandt, editor-in-chief of IW. "These awards also recognize companies that are positioning themselves for the future by investing heavily in such areas as change, market development, people, and society."

Twenty-one companies, including Becton Dickinson, appear on the list for the first time; 15 companies appear for the second time; and 64 companies have made the list each year. Twelve countries are represented on the list: the United States (72 companies), the United Kingdom (7), Japan (6), Germany (3), Canada (2), Finland (2), France (2) Mexico (2), Sweden (1), Switzerland (1), Denmark (1), and Taiwan (1).