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    ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2005--Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) today appointed Kevin J. Hobert as president of the company's Health Group and Senior Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company, effective immediately. He will report to Antonio M. Perez, Kodak's President and Chief Operating Officer.
    Hobert, 40, General Manager, Digital Capture Systems and Vice President of Kodak's Health Group, replaces Daniel Kerpelman, 46, who is leaving the company to become Chief Executive Officer of a leading publicly traded global services company headquartered in Europe.
    "Under Dan's leadership, Kodak's Health Group has become a strong pillar of our digital growth strategy. We wish Dan well," said Perez. "I am delighted that we have a person of Kevin's caliber to continue the great work that has been done to date by the Health Group team. Kevin has proven himself to be a results-oriented leader. He has driven significant process and product improvements that delivered revenue growth and improved margins. Under his leadership, our computed radiography business has achieved the number two position worldwide and we have recently secured FDA approval for our innovative mammography computer-aided detection device. I have every confidence that Kevin will take our Health Group to the next level, including further penetration of the growing market for healthcare information systems for practice and workflow management."
    Hobert joined Kodak in 2002 from General Electric Medical Systems (GEMS), a division of General Electric Co., with 11 years experience in the medical imaging market. At GE he was responsible for leading GEMS' global business comprised of digital, analog and mobile radiography market segments and remote, classical and multipurpose fluoroscopy market segments. Hobert holds a B.S. in physics from the University of Wisconsin.
    "The Health Group team has spent the past two years working to build the strongest product portfolio in the marketplace," said Hobert. "Last fall, we began to move our outstanding portfolio beyond radiology into attractive market areas in healthcare systems and specialty markets. I'm thrilled with the opportunity to lead this talented team in implementing this plan and driving the next phase of our growth strategy."
    Kodak's Health Group is a world leader in supplying the medical and dental professions with advanced healthcare products, services and information technology solutions. Its broad product portfolio includes picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), enterprise and departmental healthcare information systems, computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) systems, laser imagers, mammography systems, x-ray film systems for general radiography, and dental imaging products. Its broad services portfolio includes everything from repair and maintenance, to professional services encompassing equipment integration, business consulting, storage and archiving, and secure e-mail services.

    About Eastman Kodak Company

    Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view images - for memories, for information, for entertainment. With sales of $13.5 billion in 2004, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on the following businesses: Health -- supplying the medical and dental industries with traditional and digital imaging-information products and services, as well healthcare IT solutions and services; Graphic Communications -- offering on-demand color and black and white printing, wide-format inkjet printing, high-speed, high-volume continuous inkjet printing, as well as document scanning, archiving and multi-vendor IT services; Digital & Film Imaging Systems -- providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; and Display & Components -- which designs and manufactures state-of-the-art organic light-emitting diode displays as well as other specialty materials, and delivers imaging sensors to original equipment manufacturers. More information about Kodak (NYSE: EK) is available at www.kodak.com.
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CONTACT: Eastman Kodak Company Business & Financial: David Lanzillo, 585-781-5481 david.lanzillo@kodak.com or Trade: John LaBella, 585-724-6891 john.labella@kodak.com or Investor Relations: Don Flick, 585-724-4352 donald.flick@kodak.com or Patty Yahn-Urlaub, 585-724-4683 patty.yahn-urlaub@kodak.com or Carol Wilke, 585-724-6791 carol.wilke@kodak.com

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