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AIRGAS INC

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AIRGAS INC Profile

Airgas has floated to the top of the industrial gas distribution industry by buying up more than 350 companies since its founding in 1986. The company's North American network of more than 1,100 locations includes retail stores, gas fill plants, specialty gas labs, production facilities, and distribution centers. Airgas distributes argon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, welding gases, and a variety of medical and specialty gases, as well as dry ice and protective equipment (hard hats, goggles). Its Merchant Gases unit operates air-separation plants that produce oxygen, nitrogen, and argon. It also sells welding machines, rents industrial gas tanks, and produces acetylene and nitrous oxide.

Peter McCausland: CEO

259 N. Radnor-Chester Rd., Ste. 100

Radnor, PA 19087-5283

http://www.airgas.com

Phone: 610-687-5253

Fax: 610-225-3271

Sector: Services Industry: Wholesale

2008 Sales	2008 Sales Growth	2008 Net Income	2007 Employees
$4,017,000,000	25.3%	$223,400,000	11,500

Key Executives: ARG

Name	Title	Officer Since
Peter McCausland	CEO	6/1/86
Michael L. Molinini	COO	-
Robert M. McLaughlin	CFO	-
Thomas M. Smyth	Chief Accounting Officer	-
Robert A. Dougherty	Chief Information Officer	-
Robert H. Young, Jr.	General Counsel	-
Richard C. Ill	Director	1/1/04
Dwight T. Wilson	Divisional Senior VP	-

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Richard C. Ill, age 65 has been President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Triumph Group, Inc., a company that designs, manufactures, repairs and overhauls aircraft components and assemblies, since 1993. Mr. Ill serves as a director of P.H. Glatfelter Company and is a member of the advisory board of Outward Bound, USA. Mr. Ill has served as an Airgas director since 2004.... View Full Profile

Richard C. Ill

Mr. Wilson was appointed Senior Vice President - Human Resources in January 2004. Prior to joining Airgas, Mr. Wilson served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Resources at DecisionOne Corporation from October 1995 to December 2003.... View Full Profile

Dwight T. Wilson

Mr. McLaughlin has been Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since October 2006 and served as Vice President and Controller since joining Airgas in June 2001. Prior to joining Airgas, Mr. McLaughlin served as Vice President Finance for Asbury Automotive Group from 1999 to 2001, and was a Vice President and held various senior financial positions at Unisource Worldwide, Inc. from 1992 to 1999.... View Full Profile

Robert M. McLaughlin

Mr. Hooper was appointed Division President - West in December 2005. Prior to this role, Mr. Hooper had been President of Airgas West since 1996. Prior to joining Airgas, Mr. Hooper served for three years as General Manager and President of an independent distributor, Arizona Welding Equipment Company, in Phoenix, AZ and nine years with BOC Gases in various sales and management roles. Mr. Hooper began his career with AG Pond Welding Supply in San... View Full Profile

Max D. Hooper

Mr. van Roden, age 59, served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of P.H. Glatfelter Company, a diversified global manufacturer of specialty papers and engineered products, from 2003 to 2006, and currently serves as a consultant to the company on strategic issues. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Conectiv from 1998 to 2003, and as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial... View Full Profile

John C. van Roden, Jr.

Mr. Smyth has been Vice President and Controller since November 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Smyth served as Director of Internal Audit since joining Airgas in February 2001 and became Vice President in August 2004. Prior to joining Airgas, Mr. Smyth served in internal audit, controller and chief accounting roles at Philadelphia Gas Works from 1997 to 2001. Prior to that, Mr. Smyth spent 12 years with Bell Atlantic, now Verizon, in a variety of... View Full Profile

Thomas M. Smyth

Mr. Graff was appointed Senior Vice President - Corporate Development in August 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Graff held various positions since joining the Company in 1989, including Director of Corporate Finance, Director of Corporate Development, Assistant Vice President - Corporate Development, and Vice President - Corporate Development. He has directed the in-house acquisition department since 2001. Prior to joining Airgas, Mr. Graff served with... View Full Profile

Leslie J. Graff

Mr. Powers has been Division President - East since joining Airgas in April 2001. Prior to joining Airgas, Mr. Powers served as Senior Vice President of Industrial Gases at AGA from October 1995 to March 2001. Mr. Powers has more than 25 years of experience in the industrial gas industry.... View Full Profile

B. Shaun Powers

Mr. Stout, age 54, is retired. Prior to his retirement, he served as President, Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, with responsibility for global pharmaceutical operations, from January 2003 to February 2008. Prior to that, he served as President, U.S. Pharmaceuticals from 1999 to January 2003. He served as Senior Vice President and Director, Sales and Marketing-U.S., for SmithKline Beecham from October 1996 until 1998. Mr. Stout was President of... View Full Profile

David M. Stout

Mr. Hovey, age 62, is President of The Fox Companies, a diversified real estate development firm, which he joined in 1972, where he has been responsible for the development of numerous housing units and office buildings, and of a sports arena. Mr. Hovey also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Eisenhower Fellowships, Inc. and a director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. Hovey has been an Airgas director since 1999.... View Full Profile

James W. Hovey

Mr. Thomas, age 64, has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Rayonier, Inc. since March 2007 and Chairman of the Board since July 2007. Previously, he served as President of Georgia-Pacific Corporation, beginning in September 2002, and as President and Chief Operating Officer, beginning in March 2003, until his retirement in December 2005. Mr. Thomas held these and other senior executive positions within Georgia-Pacific Corporation since... View Full Profile

Lee M. Thomas

Mr. Molinini has been Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since January 2005. Prior to that time, Mr. Molinini served as Senior Vice President - Hardgoods Operations from August 1999 to January 2005 and as Vice President - Airgas Direct Industrial from April 1997 to July 1999. Prior to joining Airgas, Mr. Molinini served as Vice President of Marketing of National Welders Supply Company, Inc. from 1991.... View Full Profile

Michael L. Molinini

Mr. Visintainer has been Senior Vice President - Sales since January 1999. Prior to that time, Mr. Visintainer served as Vice President - Sales and Marketing from February 1998 to December 1998 and as President of one of the Company's subsidiaries from April 1996 to January 1998. Until March 1996, he was employed by BOC Gases and served in various field positions including National Sales Manager - Industrial/Specialty Gases and National Accounts... View Full Profile

Patrick M. Visintainer

Mr. McCausland, age 58, has been an Airgas director since June 1986, the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Airgas since May 1987, and President of Airgas from June 1986 to August 1988, from April 1993 to November 1995, from April 1997 to January 1999 and from January 2005 to the present. Mr. McCausland serves as a director of the Fox Chase Cancer Center, the Independence Seaport Museum and the International Oxygen Manufacturers... View Full Profile

Peter McCausland

Mr. Dougherty has been Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer since joining Airgas in January 2001. Prior to joining Airgas, Mr. Dougherty served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer from August 1998 to December 2000 and as Director of Information Systems from November 1993 to July 1998 of Subaru of America, Inc.... View Full Profile

Robert A. Dougherty

Mr. Schulte has been Division President - Gas Operations since February 2003. Prior to that time, Mr. Schulte served as Senior Vice President - Gas Operations from August 2000 to January 2003, as Vice President - Gas Operations from November 1998 to July 2000 and as President of Airgas Carbonic from November 1997 to October 1998. Prior to joining Airgas, Mr. Schulte served as Senior Vice President of Energetic Solutions, the U.S. subsidiary of... View Full Profile

Ted R. Schulte

Ms. Sneed, age 60, served as Executive Vice President of Global Marketing Resources and Initiatives for Kraft Foods, Inc. from June 2005 until her retirement in December 2006. She was responsible for leading Kraft"s approximately 700-person Global Marketing Services organization that ensures world-class marketing, including advertising, media, promotions, marketing research, packaging, digital and interactive marketing, CRM and other marketing... View Full Profile

Paula A. Sneed

Mr. Brown, age 60, was the Chairman, President and a director of 1838 Investment Advisors, LLC, an investment management company, from July 1988 until May 2004, President of MBIA Asset Management, LLC from 1998 until September 2004 and a director of MBIA Insurance Company from 1999 until September 2004. He is a director of the Rivus Bond Fund, The Harleysville Group, Inc. and The Harleysville Mutual Insurance Company, and was a Senior Vice... View Full Profile

W. Thacher Brown

Mr. Brown, age 60, was the Chairman, President and a director of 1838 Investment Advisors, LLC, an investment management company, from July 1988 until May 2004, President of MBIA Asset Management, LLC from 1998 until September 2004 and a director of MBIA Insurance Company from 1999 until September 2004. He is a director of the Rivus Bond Fund, The Harleysville Group, Inc. and The Harleysville Mutual Insurance Company, and was a Senior Vice... View Full Profile

William O. Albertini

Mr. Young was appointed Senior Vice President and General Counsel in October 2007. Prior to joining Airgas, Mr. Young was a shareholder of McCausland Keen & Buckman, which he joined in 1985, and served as outside counsel for the Company on many acquisitions and other corporate legal matters. At McCausland Keen & Buckman, Mr. Young focused his practice on general corporate law for both public and private corporations, mergers and acquisitions, and... View Full Profile

Robert H. Young, Jr.

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Insider Transactions: ARG

Date	Name	Shares	Transaction Type	Market Value
07/10/08	THOMAS LEE M	3,125	Exercise of Stock Options	$38,281.25
05/22/08	VISINTAINER PATRICK M	5,250	Planned Sale	$309,737.00
05/21/08	STOUT DAVID M	6,250	Exercise of Stock Options	$76,562.50

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Ownership Breakdown : ARG

Large Block Holder Type	Number
Institutions	323.00
Mutual Fund	445.00
Other Major	16.00

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Indices : ARG

Symbol	Name	Last Trade	Change
$RUI.X	Russell 1000 Index	690.21	0.01 0.00%
$IDX	S&P 400 Midcap Index	—	——%

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Short Interest Volume: ARG

Data as of 6/25/08

Current Short Interest Shares	1.09 B
Current Short Interest Ratio	1.70
Float	75.06 M

Short Interest as % of Float	1.30
Average Daily Volume	758,000.00
Outstanding Shares	82.88 M

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SEC Filings: ARG

Accepted Date	Description
07/14/2008	SEC Filing: Insider Buy/Sell
07/02/2008	SEC Filing: Current Event
06/30/2008	SEC Filing: Current Event

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