PHILADELPHIA, PA — As relief efforts continue following the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, VWR International, LLC, announced today that it would contribute essential first-aid and medical supplies to hospitals and clinics. Product donations from the international laboratory supplier will go directly to Hope for Haiti and will include gloves, hand sanitizers and respirators valued at approximately $200,000. The Company’s recently-launched corporate foundation, The VWR Foundation, will also make a financial contribution to Doctors Without Borders. The monetary donation from the Foundation will support the volunteer doctors and nurses as they continue to provide urgent medical care to victims.

“The devastation of the recent earthquake has reminded all of us that we must ban together to utilize our strengths in Haiti’s time of weakness,” said John M. Ballbach, Chairman, President and CEO of VWR and President of The VWR Foundation. “For the Company and now the Foundation, we will continue to support research, science education and health and well-being across the globe. We hope that our contributions to the volunteer doctors and nurses will provide them the relief they need to continue treating victims and saving lives.”

VWR will continue to monitor ongoing relief efforts and, where possible, continue to assist our neighbors and communities rebuild in the aftermath of this disaster.

About VWR International, LLC

VWR International, LLC, headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, is a global laboratory supply and distribution company with worldwide sales in excess of $3.7 billion in 2008. VWR enables the advancement of the world’s most critical research through the distribution of a highly diversified product line to most of the world’s top pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as industrial, educational, and governmental organizations. With 150 years of industry experience, VWR offers a well-established distribution network that reaches thousands of specialized labs and facilities spanning the globe. VWR has over 6,500 associates around the world working to streamline the way researchers across North America, Europe, and Asia stock and maintain their labs. In addition, VWR further supports its customers by providing onsite services, storeroom management, product procurement, supply chain systems integration, and technical services.

For more information on VWR International, phone 1-800-932-5000, visit www.vwr.com, or write, VWR International, LLC, 1310 Goshen Parkway, P.O. Box 2656, West Chester, PA 19380-0906.

VWR and design are registered trademarks of VWR International, LLC.

About the VWR Foundation

In 2008 a group of VWR International, LLC associates presented the Foundation to the company’s leaders as a way to give back in the areas in which we work and live. In January of 2009, the VWR Charitable Foundation received official notification of its 501(c)(3), tax exempt status from the IRS. The VWR Foundation strives to: support research for new innovation and drug discovery; improve the health and well-being to people in need; and build greater awareness in science education. These priorities are consistent with the Company’s synergies generated as a distributor of scientific supplies.