Benoit Fritz Named Dow Wire & Cable Market Manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Horgen, Switzerland - September 13, 2005

Dow Wire & Cable, a market-facing global business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, today announced that Benoit Fritz has been appointed Dow Wire & Cable market manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Benoit will be based in Horgen, Switzerland.

“Benoit will bring his eight years of industry experience and insight to help Dow Wire & Cable advance its global delivery of innovative solutions that deliver value and lower total system cost,” said Tim Laughlin, global business director for Dow Wire & Cable.

Most recently, Benoit worked with DuPont-Dow Elastomers (DDE) as the global wire & cable team leader for ethylene copolymers. In this position, he doubled sales in wire & cable applications over a two-year period. He also served as sales development manager for DDE ethylene copolymers in Europe. His responsibilities included analyzing market opportunities, developing program prioritizations and implementing global business plans. In less than three years in this position, Fritz drove volume growth of 150 percent and tripled sales in the automotive noise, vibration and harshness business segment.

Benoit began his career at Safic-Alcan as a technical sales representative and then as an ethylene elastomers champion in France, Spain and Portugal. He earned a Diplome de Etudes Approfondies (DEA) and a Licence/Maîtrise in organic and bio-organic chemistry from P&M CURIE, Paris VI University. In January 2000, he conducted DEA research in Eccole Normale Superieure, which was published in the Journal de l’Academie des Sciences.

About Dow Wire & Cable

As a world-leading provider of technology-driven solutions for the wire and cable industry, Dow Wire & Cable brings more than 60 years of experience to power, telecommunications and specialty cable applications. Dow Wire & Cable, a market-facing global business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) and its subsidiaries, provides plastics-enhanced materials used as insulation, semiconductive, FR and jacketing materials, providing a unique combination of mechanical strength, flexibility, electrical properties, aging stability and processability. In addition, Dow Wire & Cable creates value for global customers by supplying material and compounding solutions that are backed by solid research, product development, engineering and market validation expertise.

About The Dow Chemical Company

Dow is a leader in science and technology, providing innovative chemical, plastic and agricultural products and services to many essential consumer markets. With annual sales of $40 billion, Dow serves customers in 175 countries and a wide range of markets that are vital to human progress: food, transportation, health and medicine, personal and home care, and building and construction, among others. Committed to the principles of sustainable development, Dow and its 43,000 employees seek to balance economic, environmental and social responsibilities. References to “Dow" or the "Company” mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted. For more information, please visit www.dow.com.

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