PGI Launches New Brand Identity

With new bold colors and four dots above the lower-cased letters pgi, Polymer Group, Inc.  today launched its new brand identity, symbolizing its commitment to achieving leadership in innovation, customer satisfaction, operational excellence and global manufacturing.

"Our new logo and brand identity shows the transformation that has been underway at PGI for some time now to make us a more market-driven, customer-focused company that is dedicated to helping our customers succeed in their markets," said Veronica Hagen, chief executive officer. "This new look speaks to the values that PGI has been known for in the industry throughout our history, while also representing our new strategic direction."

The new logo signifies the ways in which PGI delivers the greatest value to customers, enabling them to win in their markets, with each colored dot representing a different core strength: global capabilities (blue), operational excellence (yellow), innovative solutions (orange), and customer satisfaction (green). The company also is rebranding itself as PGI.

"This new identity really symbolizes the direction we are going and the values we embody as a company," said John Heironimus, vice president and chief marketing officer. "PGI is a growing company that is very much focused on our customers and establishing leadership in the medical, hygiene, industrial and wipes markets."

New Web Site Introduced

PGI has revamped its Web site with the new identity, as well as added more comprehensive information on the company's products in the hygiene, medical, wipes and industrial segments, end-use applications, customer success stories, and insight into how it develops its innovative technologies and products.

New features include the Innovation Lab, an interactive tool for customers to match the best PGI solution to their needs, and an online customer satisfaction survey, where customers from around the globe can provide feedback on PGI's performance at any time, which will be reviewed regularly by senior management.

Visitors to the Web site at www.polymergroupinc.com will find information on PGI's policy on sustainability; its mission of delivering the greatest overall value for customers; historical milestones; and links to its other global Web sites.

Customers also can learn more about the values and behaviors reflected by the company's 3,200 employees globally that go into the PGI experience. These include focusing on safety, integrity, customer relationships, innovation, performance, continuous improvement, and a team and winning spirit.

"PGI is bound by shared values that work together to give our organization its core strength," said Mary Tomasello, Ed.D., vice president, global human resources. "These values and behaviors are what customers experience at every point of contact with PGI. We are proud to showcase them on our new Web site for the world to see."

PGI will incorporate the new logo across all its global business and in all its marketing materials, packaging and company signage.

PGI, one of the world's leading producers of nonwovens, is a global, technology-driven developer, producer and marketer of engineered materials. With the broadest range of process technologies in the nonwovens industry, PGI is a global supplier to leading consumer and industrial product manufacturers. The company operates 18 manufacturing and converting facilities in eight countries throughout the world. For more information, visit www.polymergroupinc.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in such forward-looking statements include: general economic factors including, but not limited to, changes in interest rates, foreign currency translation rates, consumer confidence, trends in disposable income, changes in consumer demand for goods produced, and cyclical or other downturns; substantial debt levels and potential inability to maintain sufficient liquidity to finance the company's operations and make necessary capital expenditures; inability to meet existing debt covenants; information and technological advances; changes in environmental laws and regulations; cost and availability of raw materials, labor and natural and other resources and the inability to pass raw material cost increases along to customers; changes in selling prices to customers which are based, by contract, on changes to an underlying index; domestic and foreign competition; reliance on major customers and suppliers; inability to achieve successful or timely start-up on new or modified production lines; achievement of objectives for strategic acquisitions and dispositions; and risks related to operations in foreign jurisdictions. Investors and other readers are directed to consider the risks and uncertainties discussed in documents filed by Polymer Group, Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

Press Release Courtesy of PGI

September 3, 2008