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Tweedy, Browne Company LLC

Convertion of 5% MCN due 2011 Siegfried Holding AG Tweedy, Browne Company LLC ( TBC ) is an investment adviser registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC ). TBC is deemed to have beneficial ownership of 269 531 registered shares of Siegfried Holding AG (the Shares ) solely by virtue of its authority to exercise the voting rights attached to such Shares. The Shares are owned by various funds and managed accounts for clients of TBC who are the economic beneficiaries. TBC is not an economic beneficiary owner of the Shares. TBC has been delegated voting authority pursuant to separate investment advisory agreements between TBC and each of its clients (the TBC Clients and the Direct Acquirers ). Further, each TBC Client has entered into separate custody agreements with a U.S.-based custodian bank of its choosing, which bank has in turn appointed a Swiss-based sub-custodian bank to hold their respective clients positions in Swiss securities, including the Shares. TBC instructs each U.S.-based custodian, which in turn directs their respective Swiss-based sub-custodian, as to the disposition, acquisition and exercise of voting rights for the Shares owned by the Direct Acquirers. Please note that included in the Shares reported with this filing are 182,827 shares held by Tweedy, Browne Global Value Fund, a Direct Acquirer and economic beneficiary. Tweedy, Browne Global Value Fund had previously also supplied a separate Disclosure of Shareholding, dated February 4, 2004, pursuant of Article 9 and Article 17 of the then Ordinance of the Federal Banking Commission on Stock Exchanges and Securities Trading.