Appointments

Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
04 May 2005






Press release


                                  APPOINTMENTS




Further to the appointment of Pierre-Andre de Chalendar as Chief Operating
Officer of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, the Group has undergone the following
changes:



-       Philippe Crouzet, Senior Vice-President, Finance, has been appointed
Senior Vice-President in charge of Building Distribution.



-       Benoit Bazin, President of Abrasive operations for North America and
Head of the Abrasives Division's Bonded Grinding Wheels business, has been
appointed Chief Financial Officer.



Philippe Crouzet, born in October 1956, graduated with honors from the Institut
d'Etudes Politiques and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration. He was a former
counsel (maitre des requetes) to the Conseil d'Etat. He joined the Group in 1986
as the Vice-President of Corporate Planning and went on to become Vice-President
of Papeteries de Condat (1989), General Delegate to Spain (1992), and President
of Flat Glass operations for the building industry in Europe (1996). He became
President of the Ceramics & Plastics Division in 1996. In September 2000, he was
appointed Senior Vice-President of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain in charge of
Finance, Information Systems and Purchasing.



Benoit Bazin, born in December 1968, is an alumnus of the Ecole Polytechnique
and the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees. He also holds a Master of Science from MIT
and a diploma in Economics from IEP Paris. He joined the Group in 1999 as the
Vice-President of Corporate and Strategic Planning for the Abrasives Division.
In September 2000, he was appointed Vice-President of Corporate Planning for
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain and in 2002, became President of Abrasive operations
for North America and Head of the Abrasive Division's worldwide Bonded Grinding
Wheels business.





May 4, 2005



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