Cabot Corporation to Announce First Quarter 2008 Earnings

January 7, 2008

BOSTON, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) announced today that it will release financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2008 on January 23, 2008 after the market closes. The Company will host a conference call and live webcast to review the first quarter results beginning at 2:00 pm (ET) on January 24, 2008.

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The call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and may be accessed at Cabot's web site at http://investor.cabot-corp.com. The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network. Institutional investors may access the call via Thomson StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com), a password-protected event management site.

If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived on the Company's website at http://investor.cabot-corp.com.

About Cabot Corporation

Cabot Corporation is a global specialty chemicals and materials company headquartered in Boston, MA. Cabot's major products are carbon black, fumed silica, inkjet colorants, capacitor materials, and cesium formate drilling fluids.

Contact: Investor Relations
(617) 342-6129

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