Roche Holding AG (RHHBY) Board of Directors and Corporate Executive Committee is delighted about the extension of the shareholders' pooling agreement which the successors of the the company founder Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche announced Wednesday.

As a result, the families Hoffmann and Oeri will continue to hold the majority of the company's shares.

"For Roche this pool extension represents an important affirmation of the long term commitment of our majority shareholders to an independent development of the company", commented Franz Humer, Roche's Chairman of the Board.

"Particularly in these economically turbulent times we are very happy being able to count on such a highly stable group of shareholders keen in the long-term success of Roche", Humer pointed out.

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