FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lynn Bostrom
Director, Communications
Magnetek, Inc.                                                                          
262-252-2903
lbostrom@magnetek.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Menomonee Falls, Wis. - November 30, 2009 - Magnetek, Inc. (“Magnetek” or “the Company”, NYSE: MAG), a leading provider of digital power and motion control systems, today announced that its chief executive officer, Peter McCormick, and its chief financial officer, Marty Schwenner, will present to investors and analysts at the Lambert, Edwards & Associates fifth annual SMID-West Stock Conference, to be held on Dec. 10, 2009, at The Allerton Hotel on Michigan Avenue in
Chicago, Ill. 

SMID-West 2009 is an invitation-only event that will introduce professional investors from the buy-side and sell-side to the management teams of top-performing small- and mid-cap (SMID) companies in a one-on-one and small-group meeting format.  For more information regarding the conference, please contact Amanda Passage at (616) 233-0500 or apassage@lambert-edwards.com.

Lambert, Edwards & Associates, a leading Midwest-based investor relations firm, is hosting SMID-West 2009 in partnership with PR Newswire, Cision, BDO Seidman, Barnes & Thornburg, Thomson Reuters, Roadcast™ and Vintage Filings.

About Magnetek, Inc.
Magnetek, Inc. is a leading provider of digital power and motion control systems used in overhead material handling, elevator, and energy delivery applications.  The Company is North America’s largest supplier of digital drive systems for industrial cranes, hoists and monorails, and provides Energy Engineered™ drives, radio remote controls, motors, and braking and collision avoidance subsystems to North America’s foremost overhead material handling crane builders. Magnetek is also the world’s largest independent builder of highly integrated digital motion control systems for high-rise, high-speed elevators.  In energy delivery, the Company develops and markets digital power inverters that connect renewable energy sources to the utility grid, and is a leading independent supplier of digital motion control systems for underground coal mining applications. Magnetek is headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wis. in the greater Milwaukee area and operates manufacturing facilities in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Canonsburg, Pa., as well as Menomonee Falls.

About Lambert, Edwards & Associates
LE&A (www.lambert-edwards.com) is a top-20 Investor Relations firm nationally and among the top Midwest-based PR firms with more than 110 clients based in 20 states and five countries.  LE&A serves small- and mid-cap companies and national brands in five practice areas: Automotive, Consumer, Financial Communications, Health Care & Technology and Public Affairs.  LE&A has posted 10 consecutive years of growth and earned three Silver Anvil awards – the profession’s highest honor – in the past three years, including the 2007 Small-Cap IR Program of the Year.

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This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on the Company's expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that cannot be predicted or quantified and are beyond the Company's control. Future events and actual results could differ materially from those set forth in, contemplated by, or underlying these forward-looking statements. Other factors that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from expectations are described in the Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.