SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): September 10, 1996
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Delaware 1-815 51-0014090
(State or Other Jurisdiction (Commission (I.R.S Employer
of Incorporation) File Number) Identification No.)
1007 Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19898
(Address of principal executive offices)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (302) 774-1000
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Item 5. Other Events
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In connection with Debt and/or Equity Securities that may be offered
on a delayed or continuous basis under Registration Statements on Form S-3
(No. 33-53327, No. 33-61339 and No. 33-60069), we hereby file the following
press release.
Contact: Susan Gaffney
(302) 774-2698
WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 10 -- DuPont today announced that Goro
Watanabe, executive vice president of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., has been elected a
member of its board of directors.
Concurrent with Watanabe's election, the number of DuPont directors
has increased from 12 to 13. He is the first person elected to the board of
directors from the Asia Pacific region.
Watanabe, 62, joined Mitsui in 1958 and has had a variety of senior
level managerial assignments during his career, both at the company's Tokyo
headquarters and overseas. He was named executive managing director in 1993
and senior executive managing director in 1994, both while serving as
president and CEO of Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.). He was appointed to his current
position in June. Watanabe and his wife, Yasuko, live in Tokyo.
"Goro Watanabe will strengthen the global business perspective of
our board," said DuPont Chairman Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. "This is particularly
important with the growth plans we have for the Asia Pacific region."
Mitsui & Co., Ltd., is the world's oldest general trading concern
and maintains a global trading and logistics network encompassing 842 sub-
sidiaries and associated companies in 90 countries. With $164 billion in
annual sales, it is one of the largest trading companies in the world.
DuPont is a research and technology-based global chemical and energy
company offering high performance products based on chemicals, polymers,
fibers and petroleum.
9/10/96
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
(Registrant)
/s/ D. B. Smith
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D. B. Smith
Assistant Controller
September 11, 1996
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