Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. Year-End Earnings Conference Call Announcement

December 10, 2004

PEABODY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2004--Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. (Nasdaq:BECN), is hosting a conference call to discuss its annual and fourth quarter earnings results for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2004 on Friday, December 17, 2004 at 11:00 a.m. (EST). The earnings results will be released before the market opens on December 17.

The conference call will be webcasted. For a link to this live webcast, please visit the company's web site, http://www.beaconroofingsupply.com (links will be on the home page and investors profile page). The webcast may also be accessed through Thomson's StreetEvents by participants of that platform.

For those unable to connect to the Internet, the dial-in-number is 800-901-5241 (Participant Passcode 44839939). Please call five to ten minutes prior to the scheduled start-time, as the number of telephone connections is limited.

A replay of the conference call will be available on the investors section of the company's web site.

About Beacon Roofing Supply Inc.

Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. is a leading distributor of roofing materials in key metropolitan markets in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Southwest regions of the United States and in Eastern Canada.



CONTACT: Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. Dave Grace, 978-535-7668

SOURCE: Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc.