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Bertelsmann Supervisory Board Adds Members
Liz Mohn, Andre Desmarais and Gilles Samyn Appointed to Berteslmann AG Supervisory Board

Gütersloh (ots)

Parallel to the acquisition of 25.0 per cent
voting and 0.1 per cent  non-voting Bertelsmann shares by the new
shareholder Groupe Bruxelles Lambert S.A. (GBL), the Bertelsmann
Aktiengesellschaft Supervisory Board has been expanded from formerly
12 to 15 members.
On July 2, 2001, the Bertelsmann Aktiengesellschaft Annual General
Meeting appointed Liz Mohn, member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung
Executive Board and shareholder in the Bertelsmann
Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (BVG), along with André Desmarais,
President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Power Corporation of
Canada, and Gilles Samyn, Managing Director of the CNP Compagnie
Nationale à Portefeuille, to the Bertelsmann AG Supervisory Board.
The Belgian Groupe Bruxelles Lambert S.A. is thus contributing two
Supervisory Board members. In the person of Liz Mohn, yet another
member of the Mohn Family has been appointed to a Supervisory Board
capacity at Bertelsmann. Reinhard Mohn is the Chairman Emeritus of
the Supervisory Board.
Thus, the Supervisory Board now comprises the following members:
Gerd Schulte-Hillen, shareholder in the Bertelsmann
Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (BVG) and Deputy Chairman of the
Bertelsmann Stiftung Executive Board and Board of Trustees, Hamburg
(Chairman); Dr. Dieter Vogel, managing shareholder in the Bessemer,
Vogel & Treichl GmbH, Düsseldorf (Deputy Chairman); Dr. Rolf-E.
Breuer, spokesman of the Group Board of Deutsche Bank AG,
Frankfurt/Main; Dr. Hugo Bütler, Editor-in-Chief and Managing
Director of Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich; André Desmarais, President
and Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Power Corporation of Canada,
Montréal; Dr. Michael Hoffmann-Becking, Attorney at Law, Düsseldorf;
Oswald Lexer, Chairman of the Works Council of Bertelsmann Services
Group, Gütersloh; Liz Mohn, member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung
Executive Board, Gütersloh and shareholder in the Bertelsmann
Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (BVG); Willi Pfannkuche, Deputy Chairman
of Bertelsmann Corporate Works Council, Gütersloh; Erich Ruppik,
Chairman of Bertelsmann Corporate Works Council, Gütersloh;
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Strube, Chairman of the Board of Executive
Directors of BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen; Dr. Uwe Swientek,
Chairman of the Management Representative Committee, Gütersloh;
Heinrich Weiss, Chairman of the Management Board of SMS
Aktiengesellschaft, Düsseldorf; Bernd Wrede, Chairman of the
Executive Board of Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg. Reinhard Mohn continues to
be the Chairman Emeritus of the Supervisory Board.
For further questions, please contact:
Oliver Herrgesell
Media Relations
Tel.: +49 - 52 41 - 80 24 66 
oliver.herrgesell@bertelsmann.de

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