Re: Press Conference on DSM Second Quarter Results


HEERLEN, Netherlands, July 19, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- I have the pleasure of inviting you, on behalf of the Managing Board of DSM, to attend a press conference to be held at the Hilton Hotel, Apollolaan 138, Amsterdam, at 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 27 July 2005. During this meeting the group results for the second quarter of the financial year 2005 will be commented on by Mr Henk van Dalen, member of DSM's Managing Board of Directors, and Mr Arnold Gratama van Andel, director of Finance & Economics.

Copies of the report for the second quarter of 2005 will be available for perusal at the Hilton Hotel from 8.15 a.m. The second quarter figures as well as additional information provided at the conference will be available for immediate publication.

The press conference can also be followed via a live webcast at www.dsm.com.

Alternatively, you are invited to dial into the press conference at 10.15 a.m. on telephone number: (31) 20 531 5851. Use of a touchtone telephone is necessary to dial in.

Please return the registration form as soon as possible (no later than 22 July).

We look forward to seeing you at the press conference.

Yours faithfully,

Medard Schoenmaeckers

Annex: participation form http://hugin.info/130663/R/1002986/153939.pdf



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