Danone Outlines Proposed New Composition of Numico's Supervisory Board

19/10/07 Royal Numico N.V. and Groupe Danone S.A. have announced the proposed new composition of Numico's Supervisory Board in the event that Danone declares its public offer for all the ordinary shares in the share capital of Numico unconditional.

It is intended that Bernard Hours, Jacques Vincent and Emmanuel Faber will be nominated as new members of Numico's Supervisory Board and will be appointed during the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of Numico which is intended to be held after Danone has declared the offer unconditional. Bernard Hours will become chairman of the Supervisory Board.

Steven Schuit, who is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of Numico, will remain in the Supervisory Board.  The other members of the current Supervisory Board will resign in the event that Danone declares its offer for Numico shares unconditional. Upon their intended resignations the departing members of the current Supervisory Board will not receive any compensation, other than the regular compensation for the remainder of the year 2007.

Bernard Hours is currently Executive Vice President, Fresh Dairy Products of Danone and will be Co-Chief Operating Officer as of 1 January 2008.

Jacques Vincent is currently Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Danone and as of 1 January 2008 adviser to Franck Riboud and Chairman of the Strategic Committee.

Emmanuel Faber is currently Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific of Danone and as of 1 January 2008 Co-Chief Operating Officer.

Steven Schuit is a member of several Supervisory Boards.  He is a professor of International Commercial and Financial Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Utrecht.

The acceptance period under the offer expires at 15:00 hours CET on 31 October 2007, unless extended.