Regal Beloit Corporation Announces Pricing Of Common Stock Offering

BELOIT, Wis., Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Regal Beloit Corporation (NYSE:RBC) announced today that it priced a public offering of 2,750,000 shares of common stock at a price of $67.00 per share to the public.  Regal Beloit has granted the underwriters in the offering an option to purchase up to 412,500 additional shares of common stock at the same price per share to cover any over-allotments.  The public offering of the shares is expected to close on December 18, 2012.

Assuming no exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option, Regal Beloit expects to receive net proceeds from the offering of approximately $176.3 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated expenses of the offering. Regal Beloit will use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate and working capital purposes, including the potential funding of future acquisitions.

Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated and Credit Suisse Securities ( USA) LLC acted as underwriters for the offering. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus and related prospectus supplement, copies of which may be obtained from Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, 777 East Wisconsin Avenue, 28th Floor, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202-5391, or by calling 1-800-792-2473, or from Credit Suisse Securities ( USA) LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, One Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010, or telephone: [phone], or email: [e-mail].  Electronic copies of the prospectus and the prospectus supplement are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov.

The shares are being offered pursuant to an effective registration statement.  This press release does not constitute an offer to sell these securities or a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

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