RNS Number:6229Q
Alstom
07 October 2003

                                                                  7 October 2003

                         Philippe Mellier presents
               "The new way of working" for ALSTOM Transport

Today, Philippe Mellier, President of ALSTOM's Transport Sector, presented to
his top 1,200 managers around the world a new way of working and a new
organization.

"ALSTOM Transport has doubled in size over the past few years through expansion
and acquisition," said Mr. Mellier. "Company processes, roles and
responsibilities today need to be simplified and focused so that we can manage
our business as one single entity."

Mr. Mellier's presentation was made to 500 top managers face-to-face and to 700
managers in 40 countries by webcast.

"The recently agreed financial package to save ALSTOM gives us the foundation to
deliver the results needed to build our future," he explained. "This means that
everyone in ALSTOM Transport must quickly adopt the new standards for the way we
work together with all our customers and suppliers throughout the world."

The new organization will be based on four newly created, customer-focused
regional businesses (Northern Europe, Southern Europe, the Americas and
Asia-Pacific). They will be responsible for all customer contacts, including
business development, tendering and project execution and thus will be
responsible for the profit and loss of the Sector. They will be supported by a
single operations group that will manage all ALSTOM Transport factories and
engineering centers around the world to design, produce and deliver trains,
train systems and services "according to the contract signed with each customer"
- a phrase that Mr. Mellier hammered home time and time again throughout the
two-hour presentation.

He added: "To meet our customers' actual needs and expectations - as well as our
own profit targets - we will make sure that the specifications we agree at
contract time are both comprehensive and stable, so that we can then focus all
our efforts on delivery according to the contract terms. Customer relations is
key to ALSTOM Transport's new way of working; we need to be closer to our
customers, and our new organization will facilitate that."

The presentation was followed by a press conference in the ALSTOM Transport
headquarters in St. Ouen, where Mr. Mellier also announced that more than Euro550
million of new business - orders and announcements of new orders to come - came
in over the last few weeks. "This is a very encouraging sign that, with the new
financial package, customers are reassured about our financials and our future,
so we can resume normal commercial relationships and close the period of
uncertainty, which was very detrimental for us," Philippe Mellier concluded.




Editor's notes



Philippe Mellier became ALSTOM's Transport Sector President on May 1, 2003. Born
in 1955, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Renault Trucks from
2000-2003, having joined the company in 1999 as a Senior Vice President for
marketing in Europe. Prior to his career at Renault, he worked for the Ford
Motor Company, having held senior management positions with responsibility for
several countries.



With more than 35 product lines and a presence in more than 60 countries,
ALSTOM's Transport sector offers a complete range of products and services for
new rolling stock, signaling, and electrical and mechanical infrastructure as
well as maintenance and rehabilitation services to four distinct types of
customers: urban transit authorities and operators; intercity passenger rail
operators and rolling stock owners; rail freight operators; and intercity
railway infrastructure owners. ALSTOM's Transport sector, with sales of Euro5.1
billion in financial year 2002-2003, is among the world's leading suppliers to
the railway industry.



Contacts:



International, general, economic press
Severine Gagneraud/Gilles Tourvieille
Tel.: +33 (0)1 47 55 25 87
internet.press@chq.alstom.com



Trade press
Helen Connolly
Tel.: +33 (0)1 41 66 91 43
helen.connolly@transport.alstom.com



Investor relations
Emmanuelle Chatelain
Tel.: +33 (0)1 47 55 25 33
investor.relations@chq.alstom.com




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