Oshkosh Board Of Directors Unanimously Rejects Carl Icahn’s Unsolicited, Inadequate, Highly Conditional And Opportunistic Tender Offer

Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK), a leading manufacturer of specialty vehicles and vehicle bodies, today announced that its Board of Directors, after consultation with its financial and legal advisors, unanimously determined that the unsolicited, highly conditional and opportunistic tender offer from Carl Icahn to acquire any and all outstanding common shares of Oshkosh for $32.50 per share in cash (the “Offer”) is inadequate, undervalues the Company and is not in the best interests of all Oshkosh shareholders. The Board recommends that Oshkosh shareholders reject Mr. Icahn’s Offer and not tender any of their shares. The basis for the Board’s decision is set forth in the Schedule 14D-9 being filed by Oshkosh today with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), which will also be mailed to shareholders in the near future.

“Our Board of Directors unanimously concluded that Mr. Icahn’s unsolicited, inadequate, highly-conditional and opportunistic Offer significantly undervalues Oshkosh and is not in the best interests of all Oshkosh shareholders,” said Richard M. Donnelly, chairman of the Oshkosh Board of Directors. “Furthermore, we believe Mr. Icahn’s Offer is yet another attempt by Mr. Icahn to enrich himself at the expense of all other Oshkosh shareholders. We believe Mr. Icahn’s tender offer and the related proxy contest are tools to advance Mr. Icahn’s self-serving agenda, and if elected, Mr. Icahn’s director candidates will seek to deprive all other Oshkosh shareholders of the full value of their investment by facilitating Mr. Icahn’s inadequate Offer and ill-advised strategy to spin-off JLG. Your Board encourages shareholders to send a clear message to Mr. Icahn that you will not allow him to pursue his self-serving agenda and will not permit him to take control of Oshkosh for a price significantly below the Company’s value. Tendering into Mr. Icahn’s Offer would only encourage Mr. Icahn in his opportunistic attempt to acquire Oshkosh at the inadequate price of $32.50 per share – a price that even he admitted was below the Company’s value.”

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