Directors’ Dealings | 22 January 2007 12:02

DGAP-DD: ARQUES Industries AG english

Notification concerning transactions by persons performing managerial responsibilities pursuant to section 15a of the WpHG Directors’ Dealings notification transmitted by DGAP – a company of EquityStory AG. The person with duty of notification is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. —————————————————————————— Details of the person subject to the disclosure requirement Last name: Löw First name: Dr. Dr. Peter Company: ARQUES Industries AG Function: Member of a managing body Information about the transaction with duty of notification Description of the financial instrument: Inhaberstückaktie ISIN/WKN of the financial instrument: DE0005156004 Type of transaction: Verkauf Date: 18.01.2007 Price: 14.40 Currency: EUR No. of items: 1850000 Total amount traded: 26640000 Place: over the counter Explanation for publication: Press release ARQUES Industries AG as of January 22, 2007 ARQUES free float increases to more than 85% -Executive board reduces share ownership from 22.8% to 14.7% -Shares sold OTC to institutional investors Starnberg, January 22, 2007 – The executive board of the Starnberg-based equity investment company, ARQUES Industries AG (ISIN DE0005156004), has reduced its interest in the company by approximately 8% to 14.7%. Hereby the company’s free float increases to 85.3%. The transaction took place on January 17 and 18, 2007, part of which was the sale of 1.85 million shares at a share price of EUR 14.40 by the chairman of the executive board, Dr. Peter Löw. Dr. Löw thereby reduced his interest in ARQUES Industries AG from 21.8% to 14.1%. The shares were sold OTC within a short time to renowned institutional investors in Germany and in the Anglo-Saxon area. The sale took place solely for private reasons, among other things because of considerable tax payments due by Dr. Löw. Dr. Löw’s commitment as chairman of the executive board and largest single shareholder in ARQUES Industries AG naturally remains unaffected by the transaction. In addition, ARQUES COO, Markus Zöllner, sold 100,000 shares at EUR 15.60. Goal: Admission to MDAX ARQUES Industries AG, currently listed on the SDAX, is aiming at the admission to the MDAX in the medium-term. The conditions of admission are a sufficiently large market capitalisation as well as a correspondingly high trade volume. The German Stock Exchange takes the free float of the corporations into account in the calculation of these criteria. Due to the increase in the free float to more than 85%, ARQUES improves its position for moving up into the crucial rankings. According to the MDAX statistics of the German Stock Exchange dated December 31, 2006, ARQUES was on rank 76 based on market capitalisation, and on rank 66 based on trade volume. Companies which fulfil the so-called 60/60 rule, i.e. at least rank 60 in both criteria, are considered for admission to the MDAX. Information about the company with duty of publication Issuer: ARQUES Industries AG Münchner Str. 15a 82319 Starnberg Deutschland ISIN: DE0005156004 WKN: 515600 Index: SDAX End of Director’s Dealings Notification (c)DGAP 22.01.2007 The registration of this notification was carried out on http://www.dd-meldung.de or http://www.directors-dealings.de ID 1226