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Leading Brands, Inc. Announces the Voluntary Delisting of its Shares from the Toronto Stock Exchange

VANCOUVER, CANADA - April 7, 2003 - LEADING BRANDS, INC. LBIX (TSX:LBI), North America's only independent, fully integrated, premium beverage company, announces that effective Tuesday April 8th at the close of trading, its shares will be voluntarily delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange. Leading Brands, Inc. will maintain its listing on Nasdaq under the symbol LBIX.

Leading Brands Chairman & CEO, Ralph McRae said: "We did not see the benefits from the joint listing that we had hoped since our shares started trading on the TSX last May. The cost of maintaining two listings and multi-jurisdictional filings far outweighed any perceived benefits. We will continue our Nasdaq Stock Market listing where more than 98% of our shares trade in any event."

About Leading Brands, Inc.
Leading Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ:LBIX) is North America’s only fully integrated premium beverage company. The Company’s unique Integrated Distribution System (IDS) ™ offers turnkey, one-stop shopping to food and beverage brand owners, including manufacturing, distribution, sales/marketing and licensing. In addition, Leading Brands produces their own line of beverages such as TrueBlue®, LiteBlue®, TREK® Natural Sports Drinks, NITRO® Energy Drinks, INFINITY® Health Water™, Country Harvest® Juices, and Caesar’s® Cocktails.

Forward Looking Statements
Certain information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Words such as “believe”, “expect,” “will,” or comparable terms, are intended to identify forward-looking statements concerning the Company’s expectations, beliefs, intentions, plans, objectives, future events or performance and other developments. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based on information available to the Company on the date hereof. Such statements speak only as of the date hereof. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company’s estimations and projections are disclosed in the Company’s securities filings and include, but are not limited to, the following: general economic conditions, weather conditions, changing beverage consumption trends, pricing, availability of raw materials, economic uncertainties (including currency exchange rates), government regulation, managing and maintaining growth, the effect of adverse publicity, litigation, competition and other risk factors described from time to time in securities reports filed by Leading Brands, Inc.

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