Announcement Share buy-back program 2007 - 2008

DSM accelerates shift to Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company and raises growth targets

Heerlen,NL,27-Sep-2007 07:15 CET

Share Buy-Back Program 2007 - 2008

On Thursday 27 September 2007, the newly composed Managing Board of Royal DSM N.V. presents the conclusions from its early, mid-term evaluation of the Vision 2010 – Building on Strengths strategy.

As part of the evaluation of Vision 2010 – Building on Strengths the following financial policy has been defined:

• A new EUR 750 million share buy-back program will commence in October 2007 with a comparable scheme as in 2006/2007.

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