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Disclaimer
This Management Presentation contains forward-looking statements. We may from time to time make forward-looking statements in our periodic reports filed
with or furnished to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on Forms 20-F and 6-K, in our annual reports to shareholders, in offering circulars,
invitation memoranda and prospectuses, in media releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by our officers, directors or employees to
analysts, institutional investors, existing and potential lenders, representatives of the media and others. Statements that are not historical facts are forward-
looking statements and such forward-looking statements are statements made pursuant to the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Examples of forward-looking statements include:
statements about our future performance;
projections of our results of operations or financial condition;
statements regarding our plans, objectives or goals, including those relating to our strategies, initiatives, competition, acquisitions, dispositions and/or our
products;
expectations concerning the costs associated with the suspension or closure of operations at any of our plants and future plans with respect to any such
plants;
expectations that our credit facilities will be extended or renewed;
expectations concerning dividend payments;
statements concerning our corporate and tax domiciles and potential changes to them;
statements regarding tax liabilities and related audits and proceedings;
statements as to the possible consequences of proceedings brought against us and certain of our former directors and officers by the Australian Securities
& Investments Commission;
expectations about the timing and amount of contributions to the Asbestos Injuries Compensation Fund, a special purpose fund for the compensation of
proven Australian asbestos-related personal injury and death claims;
expectations concerning indemnification obligations; and
statements about product or environmental liabilities.
Words such as "believe," "anticipate," "plan," "expect," "intend," "target," "estimate," "project," "predict," "forecast," "guideline," "aim," "will," "should," "continue"
and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. Readers are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements and all such forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by reference to
the following cautionary statements.
Forward-looking statements are based on our estimates and assumptions and because forward-looking statements address future results, events and
conditions, they, by their very nature, involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Such known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause our
actual results, performance or other achievements to differ materially from the anticipated results, performance or achievements expressed, projected or
implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors, some of which are discussed under "Key Information - Risk Factors" beginning on page 6 of the
Form 20-F filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on 25 June 2009, include, but are not limited to: all matters relating to or arising out of the
prior manufacture of products that contained asbestos by current and former James Hardie subsidiaries; required contributions to the AICF and the effect of
currency exchange rate movements on the amount recorded in our financial statements as an asbestos liability; compliance with and changes in tax laws and
treatments; competition and product pricing in the markets in which we operate; the consequences of product failures or defects; exposure to environmental,
asbestos or other legal proceedings; general economic and market conditions; the supply and cost of raw materials; the success of research and development
efforts; reliance on a small number of customers; a customer's inability to pay; compliance with and changes in environmental and health and safety laws; risks
of conducting business internationally; our proposal to transform to a Dutch "SE" company and transfer our corporate domicile from The Netherlands to Ireland
to become an Irish "SE" company; compliance with and changes in laws and regulations; currency exchange risks; the concentration of our customer base on
large format retail customers, distributors and dealers; the effect of natural disasters; changes in our key management personnel; inherent limitations on
internal controls; use of accounting estimates; and all other risks identified in our reports filed with Australian, Dutch and US securities agencies and exchanges
(as appropriate). We caution you that the foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive and that other risks and uncertainties may cause actual results to differ
materially from those in forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and are statements of our current
expectations concerning future results, events and conditions.
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