Recommendation for appointment to the Supervisory Board of Akzo Nobel nv

Recommendation for appointment to the Supervisory Board of Akzo Nobel nv Arnhem, the Netherlands, February 23, 1999. - At the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Akzo Nobel N.V., to be held on April 22, 1999, it will be proposed that the number of members of the Supervisory Board be increased by one and fixed at ten. Lars H. Thunell is recommended for appointment to the Supervisory Board effective May 1, 1999. Mr. Thunell is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of SEB, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken in Stockholm, Sweden. He previously served as a member of the Akzo Nobel nv Supervisory Board from February 1994 until May 1996, on behalf of Securum, who at that time held an 18 percent participation in Akzo Nobel. He resigned from the Akzo Nobel Supervisory Board when he left his position of Chief Excecutive Officer of Securum. Mr. Thunell holds Board memberships in ASTRA AB and SNS - Centre for Business and Policy Studies. Akzo Nobel, based in the Netherlands, serves customers throughout the world with healthcare products, coatings, chemicals and fibers. The fibers business, now known as Acordis, is intended to be demerged in the course of the second half of 1999. The company currently employs some 86,000 people in more than 60 countries. As from 1999 the euro will be Akzo Nobel's external reporting currency. Consolidated sales for 1998 totaled NLG 27.5 billion (EUR 12.5 billion / USD 13.8 billion / GBP 8.4 billion). Financial results for the first quarter of 1999 will be announced on April 21. Internet: http://www.akzonobel.com ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/02/23/19990225BIT00320/bit0001.doc