Dear media representative,
It is my pleasure to invite you, on behalf of Ahold, to a press conference at corporate headquarters on the Albert Heijnweg 1 in Zaandam to be held tomorrow, Friday, November 7, 2003. The press conference will start at 9:30 a.m. and will review Ahold's 2003 first-half earnings and the strategy statement published earlier in the morning. The presentations to be given at the press conference, your questions and our answers will relate to these subjects only.
Media representatives will have the opportunity to take photographs of Corporate Executive Board members during a period of 5 to 10 minutes immediately preceding the press conference. We would like to emphasize that in order to ensure an orderly process of the conference no photographs may be taken once the meeting has started. We kindly request you to communicate this to your photo desk.
Vehicles with satellite dishes will have access to Ahold's premises, but they are kindly requested to have left the premises by no later than 1:15 p.m. During the press conference itself, no live reports from the scene will be permitted.
Radio journalists and wire services will have the opportunity to transfer their reports through Ahold's telephone lines. A special press center will be available for this purpose until 12:30 p.m.
I hope that you will appreciate our hospitality and trust you will respect our wishes.
Kind regards,
Walter Samuels
Director Corporate Communications
