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Roche Extends Tender Offer for Ventana
Date:8/21/2007

BASEL, Switzerland, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche (SWX: ROG.VX; RO.S), a world-leading healthcare provider of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics, announced today that it has extended its offer to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: VMSI) to 5:00 p.m., New York City time on Thursday, September 20, 2007. The tender offer was previously scheduled to expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 23, 2007. All other terms and conditions of the tender offer remain unchanged. As of the close of business on August 21, 2007, approximately 13,430 shares have been tendered pursuant to the offer.

On June 27, 2007, Roche commenced a tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Ventana for $75.00 per share in cash. This price represents a 44% premium to Ventana's close of $51.95 on June 22, 2007 (the last trading day prior to the announcement of Roche's offer) and a 55% premium to its three-month average as of the same date of $48.30.

Greenhill & Co. and Citi are acting as financial advisors to Roche and Davis Polk & Wardwell is acting as legal counsel.

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Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is one of the world's leading research-focused healthcare groups in the fields of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. As the world's biggest biotech company and an innovator of products and services for the early detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, the Group contributes on a broad range of fronts to improving people's health and quality of life. Roche is the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics and drugs for cancer and transplantation, a market leader in virology and active in other major therapeutic areas such as
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