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EANS-Voting Rights: HeidelbergCement AG / 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

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  Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is
  responsible for the content of this announcement.
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29.09.2009

Person/company obliged to make the notification:

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Name:    VEM Management GmbH
Place:   Dresden
State:   Germany

Company data:
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Name:    HeidelbergCement AG
Address: Berliner Straße 6, 69120 Heidelberg
Place:   Heidelberg
State:   Germany

VEM Management GmbH, Dresden, Germany, has notified us pursuant to Art.
21, 22 German Securities Trading Act of the following:

"Hereby we notify you pursuant to Art. 21 I German Securities Trading Act, that
on 25 September 2009 our voting rights went below the thresholds of 50%, 30% and
25% and on that day amount to 24.25% of the voting rights (45,468,548 voting
rights).

Out of these 24.25% of the voting rights (45,468,548 voting rights) are assigned
to us pursuant to Art. 22 I S. 1 No. 1 German Securities Trading Act.

The voting rights assigned to us are held by the following companies controlled
by us whose votings rights in HeidelbergCement AG each amount to 3% or more:

- KL Holding GmbH
- Kötitzer Ledertuch- und Wachstuch-Werke GmbH
- Spohn Cement GmbH
- Pan GmbH
- LH Leder Holding GmbH
- LH Leder Holding Vermögensverwaltung GmbH
- VEM Vermögensverwaltung GmbH
- Horst Plaschna Management GmbH & Co. Beteiligungssanierungs- und -verkaufs KG"

Heidelberg, 29 September 2009
The Managing Board

Ende der Mitteilung                               euro adhoc
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Branche: Construction & Property
ISIN: DE0006047004
WKN: 604700
Index: Midcap Market Index, MDAX, CDAX, Classic All Share, HDAX,
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Börsen: Frankfurt / regulated dealing/prime standard
Berlin / free trade
Hamburg / free trade
Hannover / free trade
Stuttgart / regulated dealing
Düsseldorf / regulated dealing
München / regulated dealing

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