Annual Shareholders' Meeting passes resolution to pay dividends of 1.02 euros per preference share and 1.00 euro per ordinary share | Supervisory Board and Executive Board granted discharge by a large majority

Goettingen, April 10, 2014 - At today's Annual Shareholders' Meeting in Goettingen, Germany, shareholders approved the board proposals by a large majority. Thus, the Annual Shareholders' Meeting passed the resolution to pay dividends of 1.02 euros per preference share (previous year: 0.96 euro) and 1.00 euro per ordinary share (previous year: 0.94 euro). Accordingly, the total amount of dividends to be paid out will rise 6.3% to 17.2 million euros from a year earlier.

The Annual Shareholders' Meeting granted discharge to the Supervisory Board and to the Executive Board by a considerable majority. On the whole, some 330 share owners representing over 96% of the voting share capital attended this year's Annual Shareholders' Meeting.

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