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Meeting of the supervisory board of Osram GmbH:

Martin Goetzeler voted new Osram CEO

At its meeting today, the supervisory board of Osram GmbH, one of the world’s two leading lighting manufacturers, resolved the following personnel changes as of 1 May 2005:

• Martin Goetzeler, hitherto chief financial officer of the North American Osram Sylvania, will be the new CEO & President of Osram.
• Kurt Gerl, hitherto head of General Lighting for Europe, Asia, Australia, Latin America and Africa, will be the new Executive vice president sales. The Osram management will thus be composed as follows in future: Martin Goetzeler (CEO & President of Osram), Kurt Gerl (Executive vice president sales), Joerg Schaefer (Executive vice president production and engineering), Thomas Seeberg (Executive vice president finance and human resources).
• Wolf-Dieter Bopst, hitherto CEO & president of Osram, will transfer to the supervisory board.
• Rudi Lamprecht (member of the managing board of Siemens AG) will be the new chairman of the supervisory board, taking over from Jürgen Radomski.

Company profile
Osram is one of the two largest lighting manufacturers in the world. Sales for the Osram group of companies worldwide in the year ending September 30, 2004 totalled 4.2 billion euros. Osram has developed from a classic light bulb manufacturer into a high-tech company in the lighting industry. Around 40 percent of sales comes from innovative products. This global player employs more than 39,000 people worldwide, supplies customers in some 140 countries and has 53 production facilities in 19 countries.

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