01/19/2006 Competition with 2,000 tickets as prizes to run from 1st February to 31st March in Germany; similar events scheduled for the UK, France, Holland, Italy and Poland.

Hanover/Hamburg, January 2006. Continental AG is an Official Partner of the 2006 FIFA World Cup GermanyTM and between 1st February and 31st March the company will be giving football fans in Germany the chance to enter a competition to win 2,000 category 1 and 2 tickets for the 2006 FIFA World Cup GermanyTM. The contingent of tickets is for the opening match as well as the Group Games, the Final Sixteen, the quarter-finals and semi-finals. Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH will be involved in the organisation, as the forms needed for participation will be available from its 2,200 fuel stations. For details of participating fuel stations, visit the website: www.shell-tankstelle.de. There are two ways of winning tickets.

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Opportunity 1: Anyone refuelling at a Shell station will be given one sticker with a jersey number for every ten litres of any type of fuel purchased. The stickers then have to be stuck on to a football pitch with numbered jerseys printed on it, until all eleven are covered. Six jerseys are however already pre-printed on the sheet, so only five more stickers need to be collected. Once the football pitch has been completed, it should be sent to the address given on the form and the recipient will receive two FIFA World Cup™ tickets from Continental. Shortly afterwards, the winner will receive written notification of his/her prize, together with a voucher and a form requesting some personal details. This has to be filled in and returned to the sender by mid-April 2006. Precise details of the match date and venue will be given later. The admission tickets can be collected from Continental either the day before the match or on the day itself from a specific location at the respective venue on presentation of an ID card and the voucher. Travel costs to the venue will not be covered; multiple wins are possible.

Opportunity 2: In addition to the eleven jerseys on the printed football pitch, there is an extra field for the team boss - this is the joker space for an instant win. Anyone who gets a joker sticker wins two tickets straightaway for a 2006 FIFA World CupTM match. In all, 500 jokers will be distributed in Germany, representing instant wins of 1,000 tickets. The procedure for collecting the tickets is the same.

Calls can also be made to the telephone hotline 0137/8984545 from any landline phone in the German Telekom network (calls cost 49 cents/minute) to check a sticker number. Each number is allocated to a specific jersey number and can be entered on a pre-printed field of numbers instead of a sticker. This means that on the forms sent in, the football pitches can either be filled with jerseys or just sticker numbers or a mixture of the two. What is important is that all five missing jerseys/sticker numbers have been collected.

From mid-January 2006, Continental will be holding a prize draw in six European countries with over 5,000 tickets to be won for the 2006 FIFA World Cup GermanyTM. Extensive information about the 2006 FIFA World Cup GermanyTM and all Continental's football activities, including all prize draws for tickets, can be found on the website www.ContiSoccerWorld.com.

Information about Continental AG and Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH

The Continental Corporation is a leading supplier of tyres, brake systems, chassis components, vehicle electronics and technical elastomers. In 2004 the corporation realised sales of EUR12.6 billion. At present it has a worldwide workforce of more than 81,000.

The tyre business unit is an Official Partner of the 2006 FIFA World Cup GermanyTM.For further information visit the websites www.ContiSoccerWorld.com and www.conti-online.com.

Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH is an energy and chemicals company, whose divisions include processing and distribution of petroleum, extraction of natural gas/oil, and distribution of natural gas and renewable energies. The company is part of Royal Dutch Shell plc, The Hague.

In 2004, Shell in Germany realised sales of approximately 35 billion euros. In Germany Shell and its subsidiaries employ approx. 6,200 staff. Shell has a network of some 2,200 fuel stations covering the whole of Germany and operates its own four refineries, with interests in two further ones. The company is Germany's leading refinery operator, with a refinery capacity of 35.3 million tons. Further information is available from www.shell-tankstelle.de and www.shell.de