Voting Rights Announcements | 24 April 2008 16:42
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft / Release of an announcement according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] (share)
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UBS AG notified us of the following on April 21, 2008:
The percentage of voting rights held by UBS AG, Zurich, Switzerland, in GEA
Group Aktiengesellschaft, Bochum, exceeded the three percent threshold on
April 15, 2008 and now amounts to 4.38 percent (8,057,321 shares).
UBS AG directly holds 3.86 percent of voting rights in GEA Group
Aktiengesellschaft, 0.52 percent of voting rights in GEA Group
Aktiengesellschaft are attributable to UBS AG pursuant to section 22 sent.
1 no. 1 WpHG.
Bochum, April 24, 2008
The Executive Board
24.04.2008 Financial News transmitted by DGAP
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Language: English
Issuer: GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft
Dorstener Straße 484
44809 Bochum
Deutschland
Internet: www.geagroup.com
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