Wimm-Bill-Dann Ranks in Top-40 Globally for Corporate Reputation

Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods OJSC [NYSE: WBD], Russia’s leading producer of healthy food products, today announced that it has been ranked 37^th globally by Forbes magazine and the Reputation Institution in their 2009 survey of the World's Most Reputable Companies survey.

Among Russian companies, Wimm-Bill-Dann finished second among the six companies to appear in the global ranking of the top-200 companies. Wimm-Bill-Dann appeared in the rankings for the first time in 2009 and scored a composite Global Pulse score of 77.5 out of a possible 100.

The Reputation Institute conducts an annual online survey of the general public in which it measures the corporate reputations of 600 of the world's largest companies across 29 countries. The results of this study are published each year in Forbes magazine as a ranking of 'The World's Most Respected Companies'.

NOTES TO EDITORS

Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods OJSC was founded in 1992 and is the largest manufacturer of dairy products and a leading producer of juices and beverages in Russia and the CIS. The company produces dairy products (main brands include: Domik v Derevne, Neo, 2Bio, 33 Korovy, Chudo and more), juices (J7, Lubimy Sad, 100% Gold), Essentuki mineral water and Agusha baby food. The company has 37 manufacturing facilities in Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Georgia with over 18,000 employees. In 2005, Wimm-Bill-Dann became the first Russian dairy producer to receive approval from the European Commission to export its products into the European Union.

In 2008, Standard & Poor's Governance Services assigned on WBD its governance, accountability, management, metrics, and analysis (GAMMA) score "GAMMA- 7+”. The score reflects the effective work of the Board of Directors and, in particular, the real influence of independent directors in the decision-making process and the adherence of the controlling shareholders to the highest standards of corporate governance.