Sartorius to Implement Stock Split on June 13, 2016

As approved by the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of Sartorius AG (FWB:SRT) on April 7, the capital increase by use of retained earnings to perform a stock split will be implemented on June 13, 2016. Every shareholder will receive three additional shares of the same type per share held, without an additional payment. The stock split is intended to encourage trading with Sartorius shares and make them attractive to even broader groups of investors.

Following implementation of the stock split, the share capital of Sartorius AG will be divided into 37,440,000 ordinary shares and 37,440,000 preference shares.

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A Profile of Sartorius

The Sartorius Group is a leading international pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment provider with two divisions: Bioprocess Solutions and Lab Products & Services. Bioprocess Solutions with its broad product portfolio focusing on single-use solutions helps customers produce biotech medications and vaccines safely and efficiently. Lab Products & Services, with its premium laboratory instruments, consumables and services, concentrates on serving the needs of laboratories performing research and quality assurance at pharma and biopharma companies and on those of academic research institutes. Founded in 1870, the company earned sales revenue of more than 1.1 billion euros in 2015. Around 6,200 people work for the Group, which has its own manufacturing and sales sites in around 110 countries.

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