19.05.2008 – 10:01
euro adhoc: adidas AG
Release of a voting rights announcement according to
article 26, section 1.1 WpHG (Securities Trading Act) with the aim of a
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is responsible for the content of this announcement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Person/company obliged to make the notification: ------------------------------------------------ Name: UBS AG Place: Zurich State: Switzerland Company data: ------------- Name: adidas AG Address: Adi-Dassler-Str. 1-2, 91074 Herzogenaurach Place: Herzogenaurach State: Germany
19.05.2008
UBS AG, Zurich, Switzerland, informed us pursuant to article 21 section 1 WpHG (German Securities Trading Act) on May 16, 2008, that the percentage of voting rights held by them in adidas AG (ISIN DE0005003404), Adi-Dassler-Strasse 1, 91074 Herzogenaurach, has exceeded the threshold of 3% on May 12, 2008 and on this date amounted to 3.48% (7,085,804 shares with voting rights).
0.15% (304,123 shares with voting rights) of these voting rights are to be attributed to UBS AG pursuant to article 22 section 1 sentence 1 no. 1 WpHG.
Herzogenaurach, May 19, 2008
adidas AG The Executive Board
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Further inquiry note:
Branche: Recreational & Sports goods
ISIN: DE0005003404
WKN: 500340
Index: DAX, CDAX, HDAX, Prime All Share
Börsen: Börse Frankfurt / regulated dealing/prime standard
Börse Berlin / free trade
Börse Hamburg / free trade
Börse Stuttgart / free trade
Börse Düsseldorf / free trade
Börse Hannover / free trade
Börse München / free trade
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