ARQUES Industries AG / Release of an announcement according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] (share) 28.01.2008 Release of a Voting Rights announcement --------------------------------------------------------------------------- According to § 21 para 1 WpHG JPMorgan Chase & Co. has informed us on January 22, 2008 that they have fallen below the threshold of 5% of the voting rights of Arques Industries AG, Münchner Str. 15a, 82319 Starnberg on November 21, 2007 and now amounts to 4.81% (1,272,170 shares) in relation to all shares of the respective voting shares. The attribution of the voting rights to JPMorgan Chase & Co. according to § 22 para 1 sentence 1 no. 6 in conjunction with sentence 2 WpHG is concerning 4.77% corresponding 1,261,943 of the voting rights which results from JPMorgan Asset Management Holdings Inc. among others. Furthermore, the attribution of the voting rights to JPMorgan Chase & Co. according to § 22 para 1 sentence 1 no. 1 WpHG is concerning 0.04% corresponding to 10,227 of the voting rights. According to § 21 para 1 WpHG JPMorgan Asset Management UK Limited has informed us on January 22, 2008 that they have fallen below the threshold of 5% of the voting rights of Arques Industries AG, Münchner Straße 15a, 82319 Starnberg on the January 17, 2008 and now amounts to 4.75% (1,257,525 shares) in relation to all shares of the respective voting shares. All voting rights are attributed JPMorgan Asset Management UK Limited according to § 22 para 1 sentence 1 no. 6 WpHG. According to § 21 para 1 WpHG JPMorgan Asset Management Holding Inc. has informed us on January 22, 2008 that they have fallen below the threshold of 5% of the voting rights of Arques Industries AG, Münchner Straße 15a, 82319 Starnberg on the January 17, 2008 and now amounts to 4.76% (1,258,678 shares) in relation to all shares of the respective voting shares. All voting rights are attributed to JPMorgan Asset Management Holding Inc. according to § 22 para 1 sentence 1 no. 6 in conjunction with sentence 2 WpHG which results from JPMorgan Asset Management UK Limited among others. DGAP 28.01.2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Issuer: ARQUES Industries AG Münchner Str. 15a 82319 Starnberg Deutschland Internet: www.arques.de End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DGAP-PVR: ARQUES Industries AG: Release according to Article 26, Section 1 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] with the objective of Europe-wide distribution
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