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From: pvdl@shellx.best.com (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: AFU press release: stock split
Date: 6 Nov 1995 12:43:13 -0800

The following announcement was made earlier today, November 6, 1995 by AFU Inc. If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please contact Tim Shell Director of Investor Relations at (415) 555-0117. Please direct any press inquiries to hsr4@oxford.vax For Industry Analysts, please contact Sea Wasp at (508)555-0076.

AFU Inc ANNOUNCES A TWO-FOR-ONE STOCK SPLIT

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California -- November 6, 1995 -- AFU Inc., (NASDAQ:AFUQ) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a two-for-one split of its common stock. The stock split will be effected as a stock dividend. Stockholders of record as of the close of business on November 20, 1995 will be issued a certificate representing one additional share for each share held on the record date. These certificates will be distributed on December 11, 1995. Or such dates as may please the Afu board. The stock split will increase the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding from approximately 91,000,000 shares to approximately 250,000,000 shares. Tom Cikowski, AFU's Chief Financial Officer, commented, "The stock dividend is in response to the increase in the market price for AFU's Common Stock over the last several months. The dividend will decrease the price per share, broadening the distribution and improving the marketability of our unique legend products.

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With revenues of $6 billion, AFU Gmbh, Inc., S.A. provides solutions that enable customers to build and maintain stocks of legends, tales, alibis, excuses, stories, and general folderol of any kind. Widely recognized as a proponent of open standard legends, the company is also involved in the design, manufacture and sale of products, technologies and services for commercial, technical, and rural legends. AFU's software and ISO-certified service organization each rank No. 1 in the Urban Legend(R) industry. Founded in 1982, AFU is headquartered in the Cayman Islands, Lichtenstein, and Isle of Man, and employs more than two fifty people worldwide.