Lakeland Industries Prices $10 Million Underwritten Offering

RONKONKOMA, N.Y., Aug. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Lakeland Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: LAKE) (the "Company" or "Lakeland"), a leading global manufacturer of protective clothing for industry, healthcare and to first responders on the federal, state and local levels, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 725,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $13.80 per share.  The Company also granted to the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase an additional 15% of the shares of common stock sold in this offering to cover over-allotments in connection with the offering, if any.  After the underwriting discount and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, the Company expects to receive net proceeds of approximately $8.95 million, assuming no exercise of the over-allotment option.  The offering is expected to close on August 22, 2017, subject to customary closing conditions.

Roth Capital Partners and Craig-Hallum Capital Group are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. 

The Company expects to use the net proceeds from the offering for building additional overseas manufacturing facilities, payment of capital expenditures associated with equipment, repayment of all borrowings under its line of credit, and general corporate purposes. 

The shares described above are being offered by the Company pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 previously filed with and subsequently declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on April 11, 2017.  A copy of the final prospectus relating to the offering will be filed with the SEC and will be available on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov and may also be obtained from Roth Capital Partners, LLC, 888 San Clemente Drive, Suite 400, Newport Beach, California 92660, telephone (949) 720-7227 or email at rothecm@roth.com and from Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, 222 South 9^th Street, Suite 350, Minneapolis, MN 55402, telephone (612) 334-6300 or email at prospectus@chlm.com.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

About Lakeland Industries, Inc.:
Lakeland Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: LAKE) manufactures and sells a comprehensive line of safety garments and accessories for the industrial protective clothing market.  The Company's products are sold by a direct sales force and through independent sales representatives to a network of over 1,200 safety and mill supply distributors. These distributors in turn supply end user industrial customers such as chemical/petrochemical, automobile, steel, glass, construction, smelting, janitorial, pharmaceutical and high technology electronics manufacturers, as well as hospitals and laboratories. In addition, Lakeland supplies federal, state, and local government agencies, fire and police departments, airport crash rescue units, the Department of Defense, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and many other federal and state agencies.  For more information concerning Lakeland, please visit the Company online at www.lakeland.com.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:  Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions as described from time to time in Press Releases and Forms 8-K, registration statements, quarterly and annual reports and other reports and filings filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or made by management.  All statements, other than statements of historical facts, which address Lakeland's expectations of sources or uses for capital or which express the Company's expectation for the future with respect to financial performance or operating strategies can be identified as forward-looking statements.  As a result, there can be no assurance that Lakeland's future results will not be materially different from those described herein as "believed," "projected," "planned," "intended," "anticipated," "estimated" or "expected," or other words which reflect the current view of the Company with respect to future events.  We caution readers that these forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof.  The Company hereby expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statements to reflect any change in the Company's expectations or any change in events conditions or circumstances on which such statement is based.

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