As one of Dow’s primary growth regions, Dow IMEA is empowered to take the lead in driving the Company’s commercial sales and business development by doing the following:

Creating market franchise

• Creating market franchise by enhancing Dow’s market knowledge and expanding the Company’s reach

Enhancing market knowledge, extending reach and opening markets for Dow

• Maximizing Centers of Excellence and investing in the region, through local talent and technology

Investing in people and building the organization

• Investing in India. This takes the form of ‘traditional’ investments via land and plant purchases and also increasingly common for Dow, standalone joint ventures with local companies