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May 23, 2002
WACHOVIA SECURITIES ADDS SENIOR EQUITY RESEARCH ANALYST WENDY CAPLAN TO COVER THE DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIALS SECTOR

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Wachovia Securities announced Wendy Caplan has joined the firm as a Senior Equity Research Analyst covering the Diversified Industrials sector. Caplan will be based in Wachovia Securities' New York office.

Caplan joined Wachovia Securities from ABN AMRO, where she was a senior analyst covering the Diversified Industrials sector for the past five years. In 2001, Caplan was named "Best on the Street" by the Wall Street Journal for her stock recommendations.

Caplan also spent nine years as an equity analyst covering the manufacturing sector for Schroder Wertheim & Company.

Caplan holds a B.S. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Pace University.

Wachovia Securities’ Equity Research division has some 40 senior analysts covering approximately 500 companies in nine main sectors: Communications, Consumer & Business Services, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrial, Media, Real Estate, and Technology. Wachovia Securities is an integrated corporate and investment banking firm that deploys a full range of capital raising, market making and financial advisory services to meet the needs of corporate and institutional clients.

Wachovia Corporation (NYSE:WB), created through the Sept. 1, 2001, merger of First Union Corporation and Wachovia Corporation, had assets of $320 billion and stockholder's equity of $29 billion at March 31, 2002. Wachovia is a leading provider of financial services to 20 million retail, brokerage and corporate customers throughout the East Coast and the nation. The company operates full-service banking offices under the First Union and Wachovia names in 11 East Coast states and Washington, D.C., and offers full-service brokerage with offices in 49 states and global services through more than 30 international offices. Online banking and brokerage products and services are available through wachovia.com and firstunion.com.

Important Notice: Wachovia Corporation conducts its investment banking, institutional, and capital markets businesses through its various bank, broker-dealer and non-bank subsidiaries (including First Union Securities, Inc. and Wachovia Bank, National Association) under the trade name of Wachovia Securities. Any references to Wachovia Securities, however, do not include Wachovia Securities, Inc., member NASD/SIPC, a separate broker-dealer subsidiary of Wachovia Corporation.

 


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