Upcoming Beckman Coulter, Inc. Investor Events Second Half Of 2006

FULLERTON, Calif., June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Beckman Coulter, Inc. announces upcoming company presentations and investor events. Please mark your calendars accordingly.

* July 24 to 27, 2006, Chicago, Illinois - The American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Inc. (AACC) Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Exposition. -- Beckman Coulter will host an investor event Monday, July 24, 2006, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.. To receive full details, RSVP directly to Investor Relations at (714) 773-7620 or cgskoglund@beckman.com -- AACC will host its annual IVD Industry Analyst Briefing on Monday afternoon, July 24, 2006, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Chicago Hotel. RSVP to: Jerry Goldsmith 202 / 857-0717 or email: dkleman@aacc.org -- IVD Industry Exhibits open on Tuesday, July 25 to 27, 2006 9:30a.m. - 5:00p.m. - McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago, Illinois -- For general meeting information, go to www.aacc.org. * Q2 2006 Earnings Release scheduled for Wednesday, August 2, 2006. * Beckman Coulter 2006 Annual Business Review. The executive management of the company will host one event in New York City, New York, on Tuesday, November 7, 2006: -- There will be a live webcast of this event. It will be accessible through Beckman Coulter's website. Detailed dial-in information to follow. * The company will attend the following conferences: -- Thomas Weisel 2006 Healthcare Conference - September 6-8, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts. -- Bear Stearns 19th Annual Healthcare Conference - September 11 and 12, 2006 in New York City, New York. -- UBS Global Life Sciences Conference - September 25-28, 2006 in New York City, New York.

Please refer to the company's website at www.beckmancoulter.com for updates on specific details of date and time for the company presentations referenced above. To access this information from our site, select "go to IR" under Investor Relations and look for "What's Ahead".

Beckman Coulter, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument systems, tests and supplies that simplify and automate laboratory processes. Spanning the biomedical testing continuum -- from pioneering medical research and clinical trials to laboratory diagnostics and point-of-care testing -- Beckman Coulter's 200,000 installed systems provide essential biomedical information to enhance health care around the world. The company, based in Fullerton, California, reported 2005 annual sales of $ 2.44 billion with 71.5 percent of this amount generated by recurring revenue from supplies, test kits, services and operating-type lease payments. For more information, visit www.beckmancoulter.com.

Contact: Robert Raynor, (714) 773-7620, rraynor@beckman.com or Cynthia Skoglund, (714) 773-8213, cgskoglund@beckman.com. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20031202/BECLOGO )

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CONTACT: Robert Raynor, +1-714-773-7620, rraynor@beckman.com, or CynthiaSkoglund, +1-714-773-8213, cgskoglund@beckman.com, both of Beckman Coulter,Inc.

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