Fred Hassan Quotations

We have now registered our fourth consecutive quarter of strong sales growth and our third consecutive quarter of higher earnings, excluding special items,

Three years after beginning our Action Agenda, Schering-Plough today is delivering a solid record of performance -- growing our business and moving ahead with the turnaround phase of our six- to eight-year plan.

We have delivered on our promise of achieving a turnaround in 1998 and double-digit earnings growth for the full year,

We are building a special capability at Schering-Plough to respond to these and other challenges with innovation, speed and flexibility. We aspire to continue being the company delivering the most positive change of any in our peer group, as we work to deliver our Turnaround and advance our six- to eight-year Action Agenda for transformational change.

We are very active because we recognize we have a late-stage pipeline gap.

These changes are designed to further strengthen the global finance team, which continues to play an important role in the transformation of Schering- Plough.

These changes allow us to focus even more effectively on the needs of our customers in different markets, to better manage and drive growth and to build a competitive edge through innovation, speed and flexibility.

The company's strength grows daily. It is going very nicely.

We remain determined to become a high-performance competitor for the long term -- and over the past several quarters we have made steady progress toward that goal.

We are building strength through transforming and energizing our key brands.