Owens & Minor to Webcast 2005 Annual Shareholders' Meeting

RICHMOND, Va., April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Owens & Minor (NYSE: OMI), a FORTUNE 500 company and the nation's leading distributor of medical and surgical supplies, and a supply chain management solutions company will webcast its 2005 Annual Shareholders' Meeting, which is scheduled for Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time (9 a.m. Central Time).

This call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at Owens & Minor's Web site at http://www.owens-minor.com .

The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network. Individual investors can listen to the call at http://www.earnings.com, Thomson's individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson StreetEvents (http://www.streetevents.com), a password-protected event management site.