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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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Person/company obliged to make the notification:

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Name:    Norges Bank
Place:   Oslo
State:   Norway

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

Norges Bank, Oslo, Norway, has notified us pursuant Sec. 21 para. 1 German
Securities Trading Act that on 20 January 2010 the voting rights of Norges
Bank in HeidelbergCement AG, Heidelberg, Germany, fell under the threshold of 3%
and amount to 2.92% (5,481,441 voting rights) as of 20 January 2010.

Heidelberg, 22 January 2010
The Managing Board

end of announcement                               euro adhoc
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Further inquiry note:

Branche: Construction & Property
ISIN: DE0006047004
WKN: 604700
Index: Midcap Market Index, MDAX, CDAX, Classic All Share, HDAX,
Prime All Share
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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