DuPont Reports First Quarter 2006 Dividend

WILMINGTON, Del., January 25, 2006, DuPont today declared a first quarter 2006 common stock dividend of 37 cents per share, payable March 14, to stockholders of record February 15. This dividend is the same as what was paid in the fourth quarter 2005. This is the 406th consecutive quarterly dividend since the company’s first dividend in the fourth quarter of 1904.

Regular quarterly dividends of $1.12-1/2 per share on the $4.50 series preferred stock and 87-1/2 cents per share on the $3.50 series preferred stock also were declared, both payable April 25, 2006, to stockholders of record April 10, 2006.

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