LOWE'S OPENING ITS DOORS IN LACAMAS LAKE, WASHINGTON

-- Employees Now Stocking More Than 40,000 Items --

-- Store tours available upon request --

WHO: Lowe’s of Lacamas Lake

WHEN: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
6 a.m., Lowe’s will open its doors to the public

Thursday, October 16, 2008
• 10 a.m. Grand Opening festivities including Lowe’s Board Cutting ceremony
• Gift Card Match Day- Buy a Gift Card, Help Build a Home. Purchase a Lowe’s Gift Card on Thursday, Oct. 16, and Lowe’s will match purchases up to $5,000 to support Evergreen Habitat’s next building project.

WHERE: Lowe's of Lacamas Lake
18801 SE Mill Plain Boulevard
Vancouver, WA 98683

ABOUT THE STORE:
The home improvement store has 117,000 square feet of retail sales space, with an adjacent garden center, stocking 40,000 different items to help customers build, improve and beautify their homes. A store of this size represents an average investment in the community of approximately $18.5 million and creates up to 175 new jobs.

STORE TOURS & MEDIA INTERVIEWS:
The media are invited to get a behind-the-scenes, advance tour of the new Lowe’s store. To schedule a personal tour with the store manager, call Colleen Carbott at (704) 758-2282. For information about Lowe’s, call Maureen Rich at (704) 758-2298.

ABOUT LOWE’S:
With fiscal year 2007 sales of $48.3 billion, Lowe’s Companies, Inc. is a FORTUNE® 50 company that serves approximately 14 million customers a week at more than 1,575 home improvement stores in the United States and Canada. Founded in 1946 and based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s is the second-largest home improvement retailer in the world. For more information, visit Lowes.com.