News 2006

San José / Mülheim - On December 13, at around 11 a.m. local time, a fire broke out on the site of Brenntag’s subsidiary, Quimicos Holanda, in Puerto Moin / Limon, Costa Rica.

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Effective September 8, 2006, Brenntag, the global leader in the growth market for the distribution of chemicals, has acquired Wil-Chem Specialty Chemicals, Inc., Alberta, Canada.

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Bain Capital has entered into a definitive purchase and sales agreement to sell Brenntag (Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany), the global leader in chemical distribution, to funds advised by BC Partners.

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Effective July 4, 2006, Columbian Chemicals Co. has appointed Brenntag, the global leader in the chemical distribution market, as distributor for Columbian’s high quality industrial and rubber carbon blacks in Mexico.

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Brenntag, the global leader in the growing market for chemical distribution, today announced that William A. Fidler, former Executive Vice President Brenntag North America Inc., has been appointed to President of Brenntag North America, Inc. effective June 5, 2006.

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Brenntag, global leader in the distribution of chemicals, announces the acquisition of UK’s and Ireland’s chemical distributor Albion Chemicals Group Ltd., Leeds.

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Brenntag, global leader in the distribution of chemicals, is acquiring all the shares in Schweizerhall Chemie AG, a subsidiary of Schweizerhall Holding AG.

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Brenntag, the global leader in the growth market for the distribution of chemicals, strengthens its position in the French market by opening a new state-of-the-art logistics center in Montville, near Rouen.

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Brenntag, global leader in the growing market for chemical distribution, today announced that Stephen R. Clark, current head of its North America unit, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the company effective June 1, 2006.

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Brenntag, the global leader in the growth market for the distribution of chemicals, will be launching an online version of the "together" magazine.

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Brenntag, global leader in the growing market for chemical distribution, issues the following statement in response to today’s announcement that Klaus Engel has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Degussa, effective June 1, 2006:

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Facing slightly restrained dynamics in the development of some European economies, competitive market conditions and high raw material costs, Brenntag succeeded again in underpinning it’s position as a globally leading chemical distributor in fiscal 2005.

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Effective April 01, 2006 ExxonMobil Lubricants & Specialties Europe has appointed Brenntag, global leader in the chemical distribution market as exclusive distributor for Medicinal White Oils in Latin America.

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Effective March 10, 2006, Brenntag, global leader in the growing market for chemical distribution, has purchased 100% of the shares of Los Angeles Chemical Group of Companies, Southgate, California (“LA Chemical”).

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Brenntag Oil & Gas Europe has recently been SCC** (Safety Checklist Contractors) certified for its HSE working procedures by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance, a member of Lloyd’s Register Group with head office in London.

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Brenntag Personal Care Europe will be present at the In-Cosmetics 2006 from April 4-6, 2006 in Barcelona. (hall 8, stand P80)

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Brenntag Italy will present its products and services at the international plastic and rubber fair Plast’06 from February 14-18, 2006 in Milan. (hall 24, stand A/B 15/16)

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Chemical distributor’s vehicle fleet growing A total of eleven new Actros vehicles from Mercedes Benz have made an immediate addition to the vehicle fleet of German Brenntag GmbH, member of Brenntag Group, global market leader in chemical distribution.

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Effective December 31, 2005, Brenntag, global leader in the growing market for chemical distribution, has purchased 51% of the operations of Group Alliance in the Maghreb region with entities in Algeria (Algiers, Oran and Annaba), Tunisia (Tunis) and Morocco (Casablanca).

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