Definitive final result of 94.59 percent for Ciba offer

Ludwigshafen, Germany ? November 2008 ? The definitive final result for BASF?s [BAS, BFA, AN] public tender offer to shareholders of Ciba Holding AG [CIBN], Basel, Switzerland, is available. Up to
the end of the offer period, a total of 53,376,268 Ciba shares have been tendered to BASF. Together with the 1,011,536 Ciba shares that BASF held before the publication of the pre-announcement, the 9,021,802 Ciba shares that BASF bought from the Spanish investor group Bestinver outside the public tender offer and the 1,918,547 own shares held by Ciba, this results in a participation of 65,328,153 Ciba shares. This corresponds to 94.59 percent of all issued Ciba shares. Please find the complete content of the press release in the attached pdf-document.