Walter B. Hewlett Definitive Schedule 14A
 

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HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY


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[Attached is the text of an advertisement that appears in editions of the New York Times and various national and local newspapers]


 



1   Ziff Davis Market Experts survey “The HP/Compaq Merger: Customers in the Balance,” February 2002     2    The surveys were commissioned and paid for by David W. Packard, acting as an individual. Mr. Packard is not a participant in the solicitation of proxies from Hewlett-Packard stockholders being conducted by Walter B. Hewlett, Edwin E. van Bronkhorst and The William R. Hewlett Revocable Trust. Field Research Corporation: “Poll of HP’s Corvallis Employees Finds Strong Opposition to the Company’s Proposed Merger With Compaq” 2/20/02; “HP’s Boise Employees as Strongly Opposed to the Company’s Proposed Merger with Compaq as Its Corvallis Employees” 2/25/02. Corvallis survey results are based on a random sample of 445 current and 226 former HP employees living in Benton County or Linn County, Oregon by Field Research Corporation. The Boise-area findings are based on a random sample of 235 current and 237 former employees of the Hewlett-Packard Company living in Ada County, Idaho by Field Research Corporation.
 
    Forward-Looking Statements. The views expressed in this advertisement are judgments, which are subjective in nature and in certain cases forward-looking in nature. This advertisement also contains estimates made without the benefit of actual measurement. Forward-looking statements and estimates by their nature involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Forward-looking statements and estimates are inherently speculative in nature and are not guarantees of actual measurements or of future developments. Actual measurements and future developments may and should be expected to differ materially from those expressed or implied by estimates and forward-looking statements. The information contained in this advertisement does not purport to be an appraisal of any business or business unit or to necessarily reflect the prices at which any business or business unit or any securities actually may be bought or sold.

03-04-02