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Rayovac Releases Reclassified Consolidated Statement of Operations and Balance Sheets for New Accounting Rules EITF 00-14 and 00-25

03/27/02

MADISON, Wis., March 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

The Rayovac Corporation (NYSE: ROV) today provided reclassified Consolidated Statements of Operations and Consolidated Balance Sheets for each of its fiscal 2001 quarters and its first quarter of fiscal 2002. The reclassified Statement of Operations and Balance Sheets reflect accounting changes following the adoption of Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) 00-14, "Accounting for Certain Sales Incentives" and EITF 00-25, "Vendor Income Statement Characterization of Consideration Paid to a Reseller of the Vendor's Products," as required on January 1, 2002.

EITF 00-14 addresses the statement of operations classification for various types of sales incentives including discounts, coupons, rebates, and free products.

EITF 00-25 addresses the statement of operations classification of payments made to resellers for slotting fees, cooperative advertising, buydowns and similar arrangements.

The Emerging Issues Task Force of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) enacted EITF 00-14 and EITF 00-25 to ensure that all companies, regardless of industry, use the same accounting method to present sales promotion costs in their financial statements. The reclassified statements are required to enable comparison between 2002 results and the prior years.

The EITF 00-14 and 00-25 adjustment involves the reclassification of most sales incentives and promotion costs from sales promotion expenses within selling, general and administrative expenses to a reduction in net sales or an increase in cost of sales.

The reclassifications do not change the Company's profit from operations, income from continuing operations, net income or net income per common share.

Implementation Reclassification Impact

The impact of the EITF 00-14 and EITF 00-25 reclassification reduces net sales by $59.3 million, increases cost of sales by $14.0 million and decreases selling, general and administrative expenses by $73.3 million in 2001.

For the first quarter of fiscal 2002, the reclassification reduces net sales by $20.5 million, increases cost of sales by $5.2 million and decreases selling, general and administrative expenses by $25.7 million.

The Company also reclassified certain other expenses unrelated to the implementation of EITF 00-14 and EITF 00-25 to conform with the current year presentation. The reclassifications do not change the Company's profit from operations, income from continuing operations, net income or net income per common share.

Concurrent with the adoption of EITF 00-25, the Company reclassified certain accrued trade incentives as a contra receivable versus the Company's previous presentation as a component of accounts payable. Historically, customers offset earned trade incentives when making payments on account. Therefore, the Company believes the reclassification of these accrued trade incentives as a contra receivable better reflects the underlying economics of the Company's net receivables due from our trade customers.

The reclassification results in a reduction in accounts receivable and accounts payable in its Consolidated Balance Sheets of $20.2 million, $15.9 million, $18.2 million, and $21.4 million, respectively, at the end of each of the fiscal 2001 quarters and $24.7 million at the end of the fiscal 2002 first quarter. The Balance Sheet reclassifications have no impact on net working capital.

More details can be found on the Rayovac website at http://www.rayovac.com and clicking on the Rayovac Reclassifies news release.

Rayovac is one of the world's leading battery and lighting device companies. The Company also markets the number one selling rechargeable brand of battery and is the world leader in hearing aid batteries. Rayovac trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ROV symbol.

Certain matters discussed in this news release, with the exception of historical matters, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause results to differ materially from those anticipated as of the date of this release. Actual results may differ materially from these statements as a result of (1) changes in external competitive market factors, including any introduction of new product features or technological developments, development of new competitors or competitive brands or competitive promotional activity or spending, (2) unanticipated changes in consumer demand for the various types of consumer batteries, (3) unanticipated changes in the general economic conditions where we do business, such as stock market prices, interest rates, inflation and raw material costs, (4) risks related to protection of our intellectual property and risks related to third party infringement claims and (5) various other factors, including those discussed herein and those set forth in the Company's SEC filings, including its most recent Form 10Q, Annual Report on Form 10-K and the prospectus supplement for the Company's most recent public offering of its common stock.

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                             RAYOVAC CORPORATION
               Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
           Fiscal 2001 by Quarter and First Quarter of Fiscal 2002
                                 (Unaudited)
                                (In millions)

                                                               Fiscal  Fiscal
                                        Fiscal 2001             2001    2002
                                 Q1      Q2      Q3      Q4    Annual    Q1

    Net sales                  $164.3  $134.7  $147.0  $170.2  $616.2  $161.9
    Cost of goods sold           96.3    78.5    85.6   100.8   361.2    99.2
    Special charges              16.0     0.3     2.3     3.5    22.1      --
      Gross profit               52.0    55.9    59.1    65.9   232.9    62.7

      Gross profit margin
       (excluding special
       charges)                  41.4%   41.7%   41.8%   40.8%   41.4%   38.7%

    Selling                      30.4    28.0    27.4    33.8   119.6    27.4
    General and administrative   12.0    11.1     9.4    14.0    46.5    28.6
    Research and development      3.0     3.0     3.0     3.2    12.2     3.2
    Special charges                --      --     0.3    (0.1)    0.2      --
      Total operating expenses   45.4    42.1    40.1    50.9   178.5    59.2

        Income from operations
         (unchanged)              6.6    13.8    19.0    15.0    54.4     3.5

        Income from operations
         margin (excluding
         special charges)        13.8%   10.5%   14.7%   10.8%   12.4%    2.2%

      Interest expense            8.2     7.2     7.0     4.8    27.2     4.2
      Other expense (income),
       net                        0.9     0.2    (0.1)    0.2     1.1    (0.9)

    (Loss) income before
     income taxes (unchanged)   $(2.5)   $6.4   $12.1   $10.0   $26.1    $0.2


                             Segment Information

    Net sales
    North America               $119.2  $96.5  $106.4  $126.6  $448.8  $122.4
    Latin America                 33.5   26.5    28.9    29.8   118.7    26.0
    Europe/Rest of World          11.6   11.7    11.7    13.8    48.7    13.5
      Consolidated               164.3  134.7   147.0   170.2   616.2   161.9

    Segment Profit
    North America                 22.4   15.2    21.8    21.4    80.8     7.4
    Latin America                  6.9    4.5     3.5     2.0    16.9     3.6
    Europe/Rest of World           0.2    1.1     1.6     1.2     4.1     1.1
      Segment profit              29.5   20.8    26.9    24.6   101.8    12.1

    Corporate expenses             6.9    6.7     5.3     6.1    25.1     8.6
    Special charges               16.0    0.3     2.6     3.4    22.3      --
    Interest expense               8.2    7.2     7.0     4.8    27.2     4.2
    Other expense (income), net    0.9    0.2    (0.1)    0.2     1.2    (0.9)

    (Loss) income before income
     taxes (unchanged)           $(2.5)  $6.4   $12.1   $10.1   $26.0    $0.2


                             RAYOVAC CORPORATION
                     Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet
         Fiscal 2001 by Quarter and Quarter Ending December 30, 2001
                                 (Unaudited)
                                (In millions)
                                                                       Fiscal
                                                Fiscal 2001             2002
                                         Q1      Q2      Q3      Q4      Q1

    Cash & cash equivalents             $11.3   $10.6   $10.3   $11.4   $18.8
    Receivables, net                    123.0   111.6   135.5   168.7   142.5
    Inventories                          94.7    90.9    92.3    91.3    83.0
    Prepaids and other                   36.7    37.9    37.8    31.7    39.6
      Total current assets              265.7   251.0   275.9   303.1   283.9

    Total noncurrent assets, net        265.3   266.4   267.4   263.4   264.3
      Total assets                     $531.0  $517.4  $543.3  $566.5  $548.2

    Current maturities of long-term
     debt                               $35.1   $24.0   $25.1   $24.4   $22.3
    Accounts payable                     65.8    52.5    80.2    82.0    66.8
    Accrued liabilities:
      Wages and benefits and others      40.9    37.6    30.5    32.2    38.9
      Other special charges               7.8     5.9     4.9     5.9     4.0
      Total current liabilities         149.6   120.0   140.7   144.5   132.0

    Total noncurrent liabilities        302.9   316.3   246.7   264.4   256.6
      Total liabilities                 452.5   436.3   387.4   408.9   388.6

    Total shareholder's equity           78.5    81.1   155.9   157.6   159.6

    Total liabilities and
     shareholder's equity              $531.0  $517.4  $543.3  $566.5  $548.2


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SOURCE Rayovac Corporation
Web site: http: //www.rayovac.com
CONTACT: John Daggett for Rayovac Corporation, +1-608-275-4912

Safe Harbor Disclaimer

Certain matters discussed herein, with the exception of historical matters, are forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from these statements as a result of changes in external competitive market factors, unanticipated changes in the company's industry, or the economy in general, as well as various other factors, including those discussed herein and those set forth in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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