Cooper Companies to Webcast Investor Meeting On November 2


LAKE FOREST, Calif., Oct. 31, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- The Cooper Companies, Inc. (NYSE:COO) said today that it will provide a live webcast of its analyst and investor meeting on November 2 from its manufacturing site in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico. The meeting will be broadcast on its Website www.coopercos.com beginning at 9:30am local time and conclude at 12 noon.

Hosting the meeting will be A. Thomas Bender, Cooper's chairman and chief executive officer. Meeting presentations will discuss the manufacture of contact lenses at the Company's CooperVision unit.

Corporate Information

CooperVision manufactures and markets contact lenses. Headquartered in Lake Forest, Calif., it manufactures in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, Norfolk, Va., Rochester, N.Y., Adelaide, Australia, Hamble and Hampshire England, Ligny-en-Barrios, France, and Madrid, Spain. Its Web address is www.coopervision.com.

The Cooper Companies, Inc. manufactures and markets specialty healthcare products through its CooperVision and CooperSurgical units. Corporate offices are in Lake Forest and Pleasanton, Calif. The World Wide Web address is www.coopercos.com. A toll free interactive telephone system at 1-800-334-1986 provides stock quotes, recent press releases and financial data.

CooperSurgical manufactures and markets diagnostic products, surgical instruments and accessories to the women's healthcare market. With headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Trumbull, Conn., it also manufactures in Pasadena, Calif., North Normandy, Ill., Williston, Vt., Fort, Atkinson, Wis., Montreal and Berlin. Its Web address is www.coopersurgical.com.



            

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