Augsburg, November 18, 2014. KUKA AG today released the preliminary interim results of its public takeover offer for Swisslog Holding AG.

By the end of the November 17, 2014, 4:00 p.m. deadline, shareholders had tendered 201,418,770 Swisslog shares to KUKA AG, representing a success rate of 80.47 percent. Included in this number are 100,629,149 Swisslog shares tendered by Grenzebach Maschinenbau GmbH and SWOCTEM GmbH.

KUKA will release the final interim results of the purchase offer on November 21, 2014.

The period for acceptance of the takeover offer after expiry of the original deadline begins on November 24, 2014 and is expected to end on December 5, 2014, 4:00 PM CET.
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