Roche's First Quarter Sales 2004 release Wednesday, April 21st, 2004


BASEL, Switzerland, April 02, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Roche will publish its Sales Results for the 1st Quarter of 2004 prior to the opening of the Swiss Stock Exchange on Wednesday, 21st April 2004.

07.00h CET (Central European time) Release will be e-mailed and posted on the Roche IR website. Presentation slides will be posted on the Roche IR website http://ir.roche.com.



 14.00h -- 15.30h CET (Central European time)
 Conference call will commence with presentations by senior management
 followed by a 30-minutes Q&A session (live access to the speakers).
 Participants will be:
             Dr. Erich Hunziker, Chief Financial Officer
             William M. Burns, Head of the Pharmaceuticals Division
             Heino von Prondzynski, Head of the Diagnostics Division

 Analysts are invited to dial in to the conference using the following
 dial-in numbers:
             +41 - 91 - 610 56 00 (Europe and ROW)
             +44 - 207 - 107 06 11 (UK)
             +1 - 866 - 291 41 66 (USA)

Please dial into the conference call 10 - 15 minutes before the call is scheduled to start. You are also invited to download the presentation from the website. Alternatively you can follow the conference as a live audio-only webcast through the Internet site http://ir.roche.com.

A replay of the conference call will be available one hour after the conference call, for 48 hours. Access is by dialling: +41 - 91 - 612 43 30 (Europe and ROW) +44 - 207 - 866 43 00 (UK) +1 - 412 - 858 14 40 (USA) enter conference ID 179 followed by the # sign

A replay of the webcast will be available on demand at htt://ir.roche.com.

Looking forward to your participation and best regards, Karl Mahler Head of Investor Relations

The press release can be downloaded from the following link: http://hugin.info/100334/R/940429/130963.pdf



            

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