Dow Jones Indexes today announced the launch of the Dow Jones Global Food 100 Index, a custom index that covers the world’s top food, beverage and agri-business companies. The index was created expressly for R.J. O’Brien & Associates, Inc., a leading global food and agriculture commodity trading firm and founding member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). R.J. O’Brien introduced an investment fund based on the index on October 1, 2000.

Included in the Global Food 100 Index are one hundred companies that generate at least one-half of their revenues from food-related businesses. The index is market capitalization weighted; however, weights are capped at 10% during each annual review to prevent dominance by such giants as Coca-Cola and Nestle.

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The Global Food 100 Index is an example of a custom index created to meet an institution’s individual needs. Such customer-defined indexes are derived from Dow Jones Indexes’ Global Index family, which covers 34 countries and provides 95% coverage of developed markets and 80% coverage of emerging markets. Typically, custom indexes are built to include specific market sectors, industry groups, countries and/or regions.

“R.J. O’Brien was looking for a measure that would track leading food and agriculture companies, and provide a performance benchmark,” said Michael A. Petronella, Managing Director of Dow Jones Indexes. “This index accomplishes both of these goals, utilizing a consistent and unbiased methodology that ensures long-term integrity.”

The Global Food 100 Index includes companies from only the following industry groups: Agriculture, Distillers & Brewers, Soft Drinks, Food Manufacturers, Food Retailers & Wholesalers, Biotechnology and Heavy Machinery. The index’s total market capitalization is currently about $1.0 trillion.

Dow Jones Indexes is a premier global provider of investable indexes, including the Dow Jones Averages, the Dow Jones Global Titans Index, the Dow Jones Total Market Index Series, the Dow Jones Global Indexes, the Pan-European Dow Jones STOXX Indexes, the Dow Jones REIT Indexes, the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index, the Dow Jones Islamic Market Indexes, the Dow Jones Internet Indexes, the Dow Jones Extra Liquid Series and the Dow Jones Sustainability Group Indexes. Dow Jones Indexes is part of Dow Jones & Company, which publishes the world’s most vital business and financial news and information.

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In addition to Dow Jones Indexes, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE:DJ; dj.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron’s and SmartMoney magazines and other periodicals, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Indexes, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group Plc. of Factiva, with Excite@Home of Work.com, and with NBC of the CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.

R.J. O’Brien & Associates, Inc. has more than eighty years of experience in dealing with the world’s top food and agricultural companies. Originally established in 1914 as an agricultural trading house, the company has grown to accommodate the full spectrum of agricultural and financial risk management instruments, serving a worldwide clientele of more than 60,000 customers. Today, R.J. O’Brien is a recognized leader in the global futures industry and an innovator with respect to new financial products.

KEY FACTS

Dow Jones Global Food Index

Index value history and index component history available back to January 1, 1992, when a base value of 100 was assigned.

Top 20 Index Components
As of September 29, 2000

Company Country Index Weighting (%)

Coca-Cola Co. U.S. 9.9
Nestle SA Switzerland 6.7
PepsiCo Inc. U.S. 5.6
McDonald's Corp. U.S. 3.6
Anheuser-Busch Cos. U.S. 3.6
Diageo PLC U.K. 3.0
Unilever NV Netherlands 2.8
Tesco PLC U.K. 2.6
Safeway Inc. U.S. 2.4
Royal Ahold NV Netherlands 2.2
Groupe Danone France 2.1
BestFoods U.S. 2.1
Unilever PLC U.K. 2.0
Kroger Co. U.S. 2.0
Sara Lee Corp. U.S. 1.9
Heineken NV Netherlands 1.8
Sysco Corp. U.S. 1.7
H.J. Heinz Co. U.S. 1.4
Cadbury Schweppes PLC U.K. 1.3
Campbell Soup Co. U.S. 1.2

Geographic Diversification
As of September 29, 2000

Country Stock Number Weighting (%)

U.S. 37 54.20
U.K. 14 13.79
Switzerland 1 8.56
Netherlands 5 8.35
Japan 16 5.14
France 5 4.00
Canada 3 1.66
Australia 4 1.16
Mexico 3 0.67
Belgium 2 0.42
Denmark 2 0.36
Greece 1 0.32
Portugal 1 0.30
Brazil 1 0.28
Ireland 1 0.23
Italy 1 0.23
South Africa 1 0.13
New Zealand 1 0.11
Philippines 1 0.08

NOTE: A chart providing industry group breakdown is available by contacting Sybille Reitz at sybille.reitz@dowjones.com.

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