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1 Waters 2005 Frost & Sullivan names Waters the 2005 Leading Analytical Instrumentation Company of the Year ACQUITY UPLC System wins R&D 100 Award Partners with PerkinElmer to bring advanced technology to newborn screening laboratories Co-markets and co-develops integrated bioinformatics solutions for protein identification and quantitative protein profiling with Nonlinear Dynamics Teams with InfoChem GmbH to support chemical synthesis work Collaborates with Matrix Science Ltd. to accelerate proteomics research Partners with ChemWare Inc. to provide integrated information management for public health laboratories ACQUITY UPLC Evaporative Light Scattering Detector New Column Chemistries for ACQUITY UPLC System XBridge HPLC Columns Quattro Premier XE mass spectrometer GCT Premier mass spectrometer MALDI-Enabled Q-Tof Premier Mass Spectrometer Empower 2 Software NuGenesis SDMS (Scientific Data Management System) 7.0 MarkerLynx db Application Manager for MassLynx 4.1 Software MassTrak Clinical Solutions 2004 Crosses $1 billion mark in sales ACQUITY UPLC System ships Waters ranks #2 in Forbes Magazine study of best-performing initial public offerings between 1994 and 2004 with a 1,051% increase in share price ACQUITY Ultra Performance LC System Wins Editor s Choice Gold Award for Best New Product at Pittcon Completes purchase of NuGenesis Technologies elab Notebook Software awarded Best of Show at Bio-IT World ACQUITY Ultra Performance LC System Waters elab Notebook Software BEH Technology introduction

2 2003 Completes purchase of Creon Lab Control Completes purchase of Rheometric Scientific s rheology business Announces second stock buy-back program Intelligent Speed columns 2465 Electrochemical detector Quattro Premier Tandem Quadrupole mass spectrometer LCT Premier Time-of-Flight mass spectrometer 2002 Inclusion in the Standard & Poor s (S&P) 500 Index Announces stock buy-back program Establishes Irish subsidiary Pepsi Bottling Group chooses Waters HPLC systems for quality control The US Environmental Protection Agency approves a method developed by Waters for analyzing carbamate pesticide residues in drinking water Strategic Directions International releases The Laboratory Life Science and Analytical Instrumentation Industry Report, placing Waters first in LC/MS with 23 percent of the worldwide marketshare Product Introduction: Empower Software, for chromatography data management 2001 Partners with Sandia Laboratories, to research and develop applications for microfluidics technology Partners with GeneProt Inc., to advance the science of proteomics FractionLynx LC/MS System, for both UV- and mass-directed autopurification of small molecules and peptides Millennium 32 V4.0 Software

3 2000 Annual sales surpass $750 million Market capitalization reaches $11.5 billion Second stock split, two-for-one Wins sixth R&D 100 Award for XTerra Columns Partners with Variagenics, of Cambridge, MA, to develop and commercialize NuCleave genetic variance reagent kits for use in the clinical development of pharmaceutical products Partners with Caprion Pharmaceuticals to further the understanding of the human proteome c.shop, enabling online ordering of chromatography consumables and spare parts ZQ single-quadrupole mass detector Breeze HPLC Systems Millennium 32 V3.2 Software, featuring full 21 CFR Part 11 support 1999 Market capitalization reaches $3 billion First stock split, two-for-one Named to Standard & Poor s (S&P) Mid-Cap 400 Index Receives R&D 100 Award for Oasis HLB Extraction Cartridge Named a Superstar 10 Company by Boston Herald, in annual ranking of Massachusetts-based companies Signs largest single mass spectrometry order with Japan National Police Agency Breaks ground on new $7.5 million building expansion XTerra Columns CapLC System, the industry s first single-vendor, capillary-scale liquid chromatography system for ultra-high-sensitivity LC/MS analysis Alliance HT System, for high-throughput LC and LC/MS separations 1998 Celebrated 40 years of innovation in technology and chromatography Annual sales reach $500 million Joins the ranks of New England s top 50 publicly-held corporations Opens state-of-the-art consumables manufacturing plant in Wexford, Ireland Eli Lilly standardizes on Millennium 32 software Product Introduction: Millennium 32 Software, for Microsoft Windows 95 and NT environments

4 Acquires Micromass, of Manchester, England, makers of mass spectrometers Acquires YMC, of Wilmington, NC, makers of YMC-brand HPLC columns Acquires TA Instruments, of New Castle, DE, makers of thermal analysis products Waters Corporation s initial public offering (NYSE), at $3.75/share (price adjusted for two 2-for-1 stock splits in 1999 and 2000) Acquires PhaseSeparations, of Deeside, England, makers of Spherisorb Columns Millipore sells Waters Chromatography Division to AEA Investors and Bain Capital Alliance HPLC System Oasis HLB Sorbent Symmetry Columns Integrity, the industry s first benchtop LC/MS system Acquires Extrel Corporation, of Pittsburgh, PA Acquires Dynamic Solutions, of Ventura, CA, a leading developer of chromatography personal computer software Millennium 2020 Software, for networked data management Millennium Chromatography Software ExpertEase, the first data-networking chromatography software Waters Associates merges with Millipore Corporation Non-U.S. sales exceed U.S. sales for the first time Opens chemical synthesis facility in Taunton, MA Waters 150C, an integrated high-temperature GPC system Sep-Pak Cartridges, the first solid phase extraction (SPE) cartridge WISP, the first variable-volume autosampler

5 Waters Associates initial public stock offering (OTC) Waters moves to present-day location in Milford, MA Frank Zenie appointed president, Jim Waters becomes chairman Millipore makes $600,000 equity investment in Waters Associates Prep 500, entry to the preparative isolation and purification market Bondapak C 18 M6000, the industry s first dual-piston reciprocating pump Dimitri D Arbeloff (president of Millipore) appointed to Waters Board of Directors Dow Chemical converts future royalties into Waters stock Dow Chemical makes $400,000 equity investment in Waters Waters obtains exclusive license to Dow Chemical s GPC patent Company incorporates as Waters Associates Investment by Payson and Trask Company is founded as Waters Associates ALC 100, the company s first high pressure LC system GPC 100, the industry s first liquid chromatography system WATERS CORPORATION 34 Maple St. Milford, MA U.S.A. T: F: