CNH Global N.V. To Release First Quarter 2001 Results on Thursday, April 26, 2001

    RACINE, Wis.--April 12, 2001--CNH Global N.V. (N:CNH) will release its first quarter 2001 results on Thursday, April 26, 2001. Beginning at approximately 10:00 a.m. U.S. EST, the company's senior management will discuss results via a live, audio webcast. A recording will be archived on the CNH web site and will be available for replay for two weeks following the live webcast.
    This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at CNH's web site at www.cnh.com.
    The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the webcast through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network such as America Online's Personal Finance Channel, Fidelity Investments(R) (Fidelity.com) and others. Institutional investors can access the webcast via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). StreetEvents allows institutional investors to identify, organize, and track the hundreds of webcasts that occur each day during earnings season, to download events of interest to their Outlook calendar, and to RSVP to events online.

    About CNH

    CNH is the number one manufacturer of agricultural tractors and combines in the world, the third largest maker of construction equipment and has one of the industry's largest equipment finance operations. Revenues in 2000 were over $10 billion. Based in the United States, CNH's network of dealers and distributors operates in over 160 countries. CNH agricultural products are sold under the Case IH, New Holland and Steyr brands. CNH construction equipment is sold under the Case, Fiatallis, Fiat-Hitachi, Link-Belt, New Holland, and O&K brands.