Helen of Troy Limited to Release and Webcast Fourth Quarter and Year End Financial...

Helen of Troy Limited to Release and Webcast Fourth Quarter and Year End
Financial Results on Wednesday, May 13, 2009

EL PASO, Texas, April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Helen of Troy Limited
(Nasdaq: HELE) designer, developer and worldwide marketer of brand-name
personal care products, today announced that it will release fourth quarter
and year end financial results prior to the opening of trading on Wednesday,
May 13, 2009.

The Company's quarterly earnings conference call has been scheduled for
Wednesday, May 13, 2009, at 11:00 a.m. ET. Gerald J. Rubin, Chairman, Chief
Executive Officer and President, Thomas J. Benson, Senior Vice President,
Chief Financial Officer and Robert D. Spear, Senior Vice President, Chief
Information Officer will host the conference call. Members of the news media,
investors and the general public are invited to access a live broadcast of the
conference call via the Investor Relations page of the Company's website at
www.hotus.com. This event will be archived and available for replay through
June 30, 2009.

Helen of Troy Limited is a leading designer, producer and global marketer of
brand-name personal care and household consumer products. The Company's
personal care products include hair dryers, curling irons, hair setters,
women's shavers, brushes, combs, hair accessories, home hair clippers,
mirrors, foot baths, body massagers, paraffin baths, liquid hair styling
products, body powder and skin care products. The Company's household products
include kitchen tools, cutlery, bar and wine accessories, household cleaning
tools, tea kettles, trash cans, storage and organization products, gardening
tools, kitchen mitts and trivets, barbeque tools, and rechargeable lighting
products. The Company's products are sold to consumers by mass merchandisers,
drug chains, warehouse clubs and grocery stores under licensed trademarks
including Vidal Sassoon(R), licensed from The Procter & Gamble Company,
Revlon(R), licensed from Revlon Consumer Products Corporation, Dr.
Scholl's(R), licensed from Schering-Plough HealthCare Products, Inc.,
Sunbeam(R), Health at Home(R) and Health o meter(R) licensed from Sunbeam
Products, Inc., Sea Breeze(R), licensed from Shiseido Company Ltd.,
Vitapointe(R), licensed from Sara Lee Household and Body Care UK Limited, Toni
& Guy(R) outside of the Americas, licensed from Mascolo Limited, Bed Head(R)
and TIGI(R) in the Americas licensed from MBL/TIGI Products, LP, and
Toni&Guy(R) in the Americas licensed from MBL/TONI&GUY Products, LP. Helen of
Troy's owned brands include OXO(R), Good Grips(R), Candela(R), Brut(R),
Infusium 23(R) Vitalis(R), Final Net(R), Ammens(R), Condition(R) 3-in-1,
SkinMilk(R), Dazey(R), Caruso(R), Karina(R), DCNL(R), Nandi(R), Isobel(R) and
Ogilvie(R). The Company markets hair and beauty care products under the Helen
of Troy(R), Hot Tools(R), Hot Spa(R), Salon Edition(R), Gallery Series(R),
Wigo(R), Fusion Tools(R), Belson(R), Belson Pro(R), Gold 'N Hot(R),
Curlmaster(R), Profiles(R), Comare(R), Mega Hot(R), and Shear Technology(R)
owned brands to the professional beauty salon industry.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, which are subject
to change. The forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any or
all of the forward-looking statements may turn out to be wrong. They can be
affected by inaccurate assumptions or by known or unknown risks and
uncertainties. Many of these factors will be important in determining the
Company's actual future results. Consequently, no forward-looking statement
can be guaranteed. Actual future results may vary materially from those
expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. The forward-looking
statements are qualified in their entirety by a number of risks that could
cause actual results to differ materially from historical or anticipated
results. Generally, the words "anticipates", "estimates", "believes",
"expects" and other similar words identify forward-looking statements. The
Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance on forward-looking
statements. The Company intends its forward-looking statements to speak only
as of the time of such statements, and does not undertake to update or revise
them as more information becomes available. The forward-looking statements
contained in this press release should be read in conjunction with, and are
subject to and qualified by, the risks described in the Company's Form 10-K
for the year ended February 29, 2008 and in our other filings with the SEC.
Investors are urged to refer to the risk factors referred to above for a
description of these risks. Such risks include, among others, requirements to
accurately project product demand and the timing of orders received from
customers, our relationship with key customers, our dependence on foreign
sources of supply and foreign manufacturing, the impact of high costs of raw
materials and energy on cost of sales and certain operating expenses, our
dependence on the strength of retail economies, issues surrounding the impact
of a prolonged recession, the impact of continued disruption in U.S. and
international credit market, and the highly subjective nature of projections
of sales and earnings and the fact that future sales and earnings could vary
in a material amount from our projections.

SOURCE Helen of Troy Limited

Robert D. Spear, Senior Vice President and CIO of Helen of Troy Limited,
+1-915-225-4748