This is an announcement for the paper "Daugavet centers and direct sums of Banach spaces" by Tetiana V. Bosenko. Abstract: A linear continuous nonzero operator G:X->Y is a Daugavet center if every rank-1 operator T:X->Y satisfies ||G+T||=||G||+||T||. We study the case when either X or Y is a sum $X_1 \oplus_F X_2$ of two Banach spaces $X_1$ and $X_2$ by some two-dimensional Banach space F. We completely describe the class of those F such that for some spaces $X_1$ and $X_2$ there exists a Daugavet center acting from $X_1\oplus_F X_2$, and the class of those F such that for some pair of spaces $X_1$ and $X_2$ there is a Daugavet center acting into $X_1\oplus_F X_2$. We also present several examples of such Daugavet centers. Archive classification: math.FA Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 46B04; secondary 46B20, 46B40 Remarks: 13 pages Submitted from: t.bosenko@mail.ru The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1003.4857 or http://arXiv.org/abs/1003.4857