Investor Update
Basel, 26 June 2006
Roche's
Half Year Results and Report for 2006
20 July - Presentation
in London – 14.00 GMT - 15.00 CET - 9.00 AM EST
Roche will publish
its Half Year Results for 2006 prior to the opening of the Swiss Stock Exchange on July 20 at 5.30 GMT
/ 6.30 CET / 0.30 AM EST. Concurrently, the Half Year Presentation Slides and the Half Year Report will
be available from the Roche website http://ir.roche.com.
We would
like to invite all interested parties to dial in or participate in the event outlined below:
July
20, 2006
The Half Year Presentation followed by Q&A and additional break-out
sessions will be held at Cabot Hall, Cabot Place West, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AB starting from 14.00
GMT / 15.00 CET / 9.00 AM EST. Participants will be:
Franz
B. Humer, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Erich Hunziker,
CFO and Deputy Head of the Corporate Executive Committee
William M. Burns, CEO Division
Roche Pharma
Severin Schwan, CEO Division Roche Diagnostics
This
presentation can be followed by a live audio webcast with synchronized presentation slides accessed
via http://ir.roche.com.
Alternatively, you can dial in to the conference
using the following dial-in numbers (listen only mode, no live access to speakers):
+41
91 610 56 00 (Europe and ROW) or
+44 207 107 06 11 (UK) or
+1
866 291 41 66 (USA)
At 15.50 GMT / 16.50 CET
/ 10.50 AM EST the break-out sessions covering the topics Strategy & Finance, Pharmaceuticals,
Diagnostics and Accounting will be held following the main Q&A session.
The
break-out sessions will be recorded and placed on the Roche website as soon as possible after the event.
REPLAY
A replay will be available
one hour after the respective event, for 48 hours. Access is by dialing:
+41 91 612 43
30 (Europe) or +44 207 108 62 33 (UK) or +1 866 416 25 58 (USA) and enter the conference ID 180
followed by the # sign.
The webcast will be available on demand at http://ir.roche.com.