Alcon, Inc. Announces Shareholder Meeting to Effect Previously Agreed Conditional Replacement of Nestle SA-Nominated Directors

HUENENBERG, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcon, Inc. (NYSE:ACL) (“Alcon”) announced today that the Alcon board of directors resolved to hold an extraordinary general meeting of the Alcon shareholders, to be held on August 16, 2010 in Zug, Switzerland. The purpose of the meeting is to hold a shareholder vote on the conditional election of directors nominated by Novartis AG (“Novartis”) to replace directors nominated by Nestlé S.A. (“Nestlé”) if and when Novartis acquires Nestlé’s remaining shares of Alcon. The directors nominated by Novartis and standing for election are: