GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft / Announcement Pursuant to Art. 4 para. 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2273/2003
02.10.2008
Release of a Post-admission Duties announcement
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Acting with the consent of the Supervisory Board, the Executive Board of
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft has resolved to buy back shares of the Company
for an amount of up to EUR 100,000,000. The buy-back is limited to that
number of shares that constitutes a proportional part of EUR 49,689,036.88
of the nominal capital; this corresponds to 18,398,285 shares maximum. With
this move, the Executive Board makes use of the authorization to acquire
own shares granted by the Annual General Meeting of GEA Group
Aktiengesellschaft held on 23 April 2008 in accordance with Sec. 71 para. 1
No. 8 German Stock Corporation Act. The share buy-back serves the purpose
of retiring the shares acquired. The program will presumably start on 6
October 2008 and is to be ended on 19 December 2008 at the latest.
Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux S.A. has been engaged to implement the buy-back
and to repurchase the shares exclusively through the stock exchange. The
purchase price of the shares to be bought back must not exceed or undercut
by more than 10 % the mean quotation of the stock prices (final auction
prices of the GEA Group share in the XETRA trade on the Frankfurt Stock
Exchange) on the three trading days preceding the respective day of
acquisition (in each case excluding expenses incidental to the purchase).
Furthermore, Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux S.A. has been committed to comply
with the conditions for trading as per Article 5 of the Commission
Regulation (EC) No. 2273/2003 dated 22 December 2003. The purchase price
must not be above the higher of the price of the last independent trade and
the highest current independent bid on the stock exchange. Crédit Agricole
Cheuvreux S.A. must not purchase more than 25 % of the average daily volume
of the shares in any one day on the regulated market on which the purchase
is carried out; this volume must be based on the average daily volume
traded in the 20 trading days preceding the date of purchase.
To the extent required and legally permissible, the buy-back program may be
suspended at any time.
All transactions will be disclosed in accordance with Commission Regulation
(EC) No. 2273/2003. GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft will regularly report on
the progress of the share buy-back at www.geagroup.com.
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft
The Executive Board
DGAP 02.10.2008
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Language: English
Issuer: GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft
Dorstener Straße 484
44809 Bochum
Deutschland
Internet: www.geagroup.com
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