Voting Rights Announcements | 19 March 2010 19:04
METRO AG / Release of an announcement according to section 21 para. 1 WpHG [German Securities Trading Act] (share)
19.03.2010 19:04
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On 18 March 2010, Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH, Duisburg, informed us, METRO
AG, Germany (Schlüterstraße 1, 40235 Düsseldorf), ISIN: DE0007257503, WKN:
725750, about the following:
'Pursuant to section 24 WpHG in connection with section 21 para. 1, section
22 WpHG we hereby inform you about the following:
1. The proportion of voting rights held by our affiliated company
Haniel Beteiligungsfinanzierungs GmbH & Co. KG, [...] Duisburg, Germany,
in METRO AG, Schlüterstraße 1, 40235 Düsseldorf, Germany, exceeded the 50 %
threshold on 17 March 2010 and at this day amounts to 50.01% of the voting
rights (162,094,148 voting rights). Thereof, it holds 16.01 % of the voting
rights (51,886,270 voting rights) directly. The remaining 34.00 % of the
voting rights (110,207,878 voting rights) are attributed to it pursuant to
section 22 para. 2 WpHG.
Voting rights of the following shareholders, whose proportion of voting
rights in METRO AG in each case amounts to 3 % or more, are thereby
attributed to Haniel Beteiligungsfinanzierungs GmbH & Co. KG:
- Haniel Finance B.V.;
- METRO Vermögensverwaltung GmbH & Co. KG;
- 1. HSB Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH & Co. KG.
2. The proportion of voting rights held by our affiliated company
Haniel Beteiligungs-GmbH, [...] Duisburg, Germany,
in METRO AG, Schlüterstraße 1, 40235 Düsseldorf, Germany, exceeded the 50 %
threshold on 17 March 2010 and at this day amounts to 50.01% of the voting
rights (162,094,148 voting rights). Thereof, 34.34 % of the voting rights
(111,288,424 voting rights) are attributed to it pursuant to section 22
para. 2 WpHG, such attribution including 0.33 % of the voting rights
(1,080,546 voting rights) which are attributed to Haniel Beteiligungs-GmbH
also pursuant to section 22 para. 1 sentence 1 no. 1 WpHG. Moreover,
another 15.68 % of the voting rights (50,805,724 voting rights) are
attributed to Haniel Beteiligungs-GmbH pursuant to section 22 para. 1
sentence 1 no. 1 WpHG.
Voting rights of the following controlled enterprise, whose proportion of
voting rights in METRO AG amounts to 3 % or more, are thereby attributed to
Haniel Beteiligungs-GmbH:
- Haniel Beteiligungsfinanzierungs GmbH & Co. KG, Duisburg
Voting rights of the following shareholders, whose proportion of voting
rights in METRO AG in each case amounts to 3 % or more, are thereby
attributed to Haniel Beteiligungs-GmbH:
- Haniel Finance B.V.;
- METRO Vermögensverwaltung GmbH & Co. KG;
- 1. HSB Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH & Co. KG.
3. The proportion of voting rights held by our affiliated company
Haniel Finance B.V., [...] Venlo, Netherlands,
in METRO AG, Schlüterstraße 1, 40235 Düsseldorf, Germany, exceeded the 50 %
threshold on 17 March 2010 and at this day amounts to 50.01 % of the voting
rights (162,094,148 voting rights). Thereof, it directly holds 5.06 % of
the voting rights (16,400,000 voting rights). The remaining 44.95 % of the
voting rights (145,694,148 voting rights) are attributed to it pursuant to
section 22 para. 2 WpHG.
Voting rights of the following shareholders, whose proportion of voting
rights in METRO AG in each case amounts to 3 % or more, are thereby
attributed to Haniel Finance B.V.:
- METRO Vermögensverwaltung GmbH & Co. KG;
- 1. HSB Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH & Co. KG;
- Haniel Beteiligungsfinanzierungs GmbH & Co. KG.'
Please note that only the German version of this announcement is legally
binding.
19.03.2010 Ad hoc announcement, Financial News and Media Release distributed by DGAP.
Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de
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Language: English
Company: METRO AG
Schlüterstr. 1
40235 Düsseldorf
Deutschland
Internet: www.metrogroup.de
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