Catalina Marketing Announces FY2006 Q2 Earnings Release Date

Catalina Marketing Corporation (NYSE: POS) today
announced that it will host a webcast on Thursday, October 27, 2005 at
10:00 a.m. EDT to discuss its financial results for its fiscal 2006
second quarter. The webcast may be accessed at
www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticketr=POS&script=1000 and
will be available for replay from Thursday, October 27, 2005 through
Thursday, November 24, 2005.
   Based in St. Petersburg, FL, Catalina Marketing Corporation
(www.catalinamarketing.com) was founded 20 years ago based on the
premise that targeting communications based on actual purchase
behavior would generate more effective consumer response. Today,
Catalina Marketing combines unparalleled insight into consumer
behavior with dynamic consumer access. This combination of insight and
access provides marketers with the ability to execute behavior-based
marketing programs, ensuring that the right consumer receives the
right message at exactly the right time. Catalina Marketing offers an
array of behavior-based promotional messaging, loyalty programs and
direct-to-patient information. Personally identifiable data that may
be collected from the company's targeted marketing programs, as well
as its research programs, are never sold or provided to any outside
party without the express permission of the consumer.
   Certain statements in the preceding paragraphs are
forward-looking, and actual results may differ materially. Statements
not based on historic facts involve risks and uncertainties,
including, but not limited to, the changing market for promotional
activities, especially as it relates to policies and programs of
packaged goods and pharmaceutical manufacturers and retailers,
government and regulatory statutes, rules, regulations and policies,
the effect of economic and competitive conditions and seasonal
variations, actual promotional activities and programs with the
company's customers, the pace of installation of the company's store
network, the success of new services and businesses and the pace of
their implementation, the company's ability to maintain favorable
client relationships, the outcome and impact of an ongoing SEC
investigation into certain of the company's prior fiscal years, and
the outcome and impact of the pending shareholder class action and
derivative lawsuits.