30.06.2009 – 14:21
EANS-Voting Rights: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Release of a voting rights
announcement according to article 26, section 1.1 WpHG (Securities Trading Act)
with the aim of a Europe-wide distribution
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA Place: Düsseldorf State: Germany Company data: ------------- Name: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA Address: Henkelstr. 67, 40191 Düsseldorf Place: Düsseldorf State: Germany
30.06.2009
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Düsseldorf, has been notified that on June 30, 2009 the proportion of voting rights held by the members of the share-pooling agreement of the Henkel Family represents in total a rounded percentage of 52.57 percent of the voting rights (136,570,802 votes) in Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, held by
105 members of the families of the descendants of Fritz Henkel, the company´s founder, four foundations set up by members of those families, one civil-law partnership set up by members of those families, eight private limited companies (GmbH) set up by members of those families, seven limited partnerships with a limited company as general partner (GmbH & Co. KG) and one limited partnership (KG),
under the terms of a share-pooling agreement as envisaged in §22 (2) of the German Securities Trading Law (WpHG), whereby the shares held by the eight private limited companies, by the seven limited partnerships with a limited company as general partner and the one limited partnership representing a rounded percentage of 14.02 percent (36,419,097 voting rights) are attributed (as envisaged in §22 (1) No. 1 WpHG) to the family members who control those companies.
Dr. Christoph Henkel exceeds the 5 percent threshold of voting rights in Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, with voting rights attached to 14,372,457 ordinary shares in Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, representing a rounded percentage of 5.53 percent. No other party to the share-pooling agreement is obliged to notify that it has reached or exceeded 3 percent or more of the total voting rights in Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, even after adding voting rights expressly granted under the terms of usufruct agreements.
Mr. Albrecht Woeste, Düsseldorf, is the authorized representative of the parties to the Henkel share-pooling agreement.
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
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Further inquiry note:
Branche: Consumer Goods
ISIN: DE0006048432
WKN: 604843
Index: DAX, CDAX, HDAX, Prime All Share
Börsen: Frankfurt / regulated dealing/prime standard
Hamburg / free trade
Stuttgart / free trade
Düsseldorf / free trade
Hannover / free trade
München / free trade
Berlin / regulated dealing
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