Rotterdam, 24 April, 2008 - Hunter Douglas N.V. announces an offer to purchase up to 4,137,813 of the outstanding EUR 0.24 nominal value Preferred Shares at a price of EUR 0.30 per share in cash. The Preferred Shares are listed on Eurolist by Euronext Amsterdam.

Currently, there are 38.4 million Preferred Shares outstanding, of which 37.4 million (97.4%) are held by Solimunt N.V., a corporation controlled by Ralph Sonnenberg, and 987,813 (2.6%) are held by public shareholders. Hunter Douglas will accept all Preferred Shares offered by the public shareholders. Solimunt N.V. has declared to the Board of Directors of Hunter Douglas that it will tender 3,150,000 Preferred Shares to Hunter Douglas on the first day of the tender period. The buyback will be financed by Hunter Douglas from its own resources and will be inclusive of the dividend payable for the financial year 2007. Hunter Douglas will cancel the Preferred Shares that have been purchased. The buyback will be free of Dutch dividend withholding tax and will not affect the rights attached to the Preferred Shares that remain outstanding.

The purpose of the buyback is to secure the application of the provisions of the USA-Netherlands Tax Convention exempting from U.S. withholding tax dividends and interest paid by HD Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Hunter Douglas.

The offer period will start on 25 April, 2008, and will end on 27 May, 2008, at 17.40 hours (CET). Shareholders may tender Preferred Shares through their (custodian)banks or (stock)brokers to ING Securities Services (BV 05.01), Van Heenvlietlaan 220, 1083 CN Amsterdam by fax only (+31 20 797 9607).

The offer is made in accordance with resolutions taken by the Board of Directors of Hunter Douglas. The Dutch public offer rules are not applicable to a buyback by a company of its own shares. The offer is made only in jurisdictions where the buyback of Preferred Shares under the offer as made would not be in violation of applicable law or regulations. A copy of the detailed terms and conditions of the offer can be obtained on the website of Hunter Douglas (www.hunterdouglasgroup.com) and upon request from ING Corporate Finance via cfprospectus@ingcf.com.

For further information:
Leen Reijtenbagh, Chief Financial Officer
Phone: +31 (0)10 4869 582