Voting Rights Announcements | 11 July 2007 14:01
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft / Release of an announcement according to Article 21 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] (share)
Release of a Voting Rights announcement, transmitted by DGAP - a company of
EquityStory AG.
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft, Bochum
ISIN: DE0006602006 // WKN: 660200
Publication pursuant to section 26 (1) of the German Securities Trading Act
(WpHG)
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, New York, United
States, a life insurance company established under the laws of New York
State, notified us in a letter dated July 9, 2007 that its shareholding in
GEA Group AG, Bochum, had fallen below the threshold of 3 percent on July
5, 2007 and subsequently amounted to 2.88 percent of the voting rights in
GEA Group AG (5,612,278 out of a total of 194,366,618 voting rights). All
voting rights have been attributed to Teachers Insurance and Annuity
Association of America pursuant to section 22 (1) sentence 1 No. 6 read in
conjunction with sentences 2 and 3 WpHG.
Bochum, July 10, 2007
The Executive Board
DGAP 11.07.2007
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Language: English
Issuer: GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft
Dorstener Straße 484
44809 Bochum Deutschland
Internet: www.geagroup.com
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