Merck Financial Services GmbH / Preliminary announcement on the disclosure of financial statements 25.03.2010 09:54 Announcement according to articles 37v, 37w, 37x ff. WpHG, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Merck Financial Services GmbH hereby announces that the following financial reports shall be disclosed: Report: Annual financial report Date of disclosure / German: April 06, 2010 Date of disclosure / English: April 06, 2010 German: http://germany.merck.de/de/unternehmen/merck_in_deutschland/merck_financial_services/mfs_kapitalstruktur/mfs_kapitalstruktur.html English: http://germany.merck.de/en/company/merck_in_germany/merck_financial_services/mfs_capital_structure/mfs_capital_structure.html 25.03.2010 09:54 Ad hoc announcement, Financial News and Media Release distributed by DGAP. Medienarchiv at |[![CDATA[|[a href="http://www.dgap-medientreff.de"|]www.dgap-medientreff.de|[/a|]]]|] and |[![CDATA[|[a href="http://www.dgap.de"|]www.dgap.de|[/a|]]]|] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DGAP-AFR: Merck Financial Services GmbH: Announcement according to Articles 37v, 37w, 37x et seqq. of the WpHG [the German Securities Act] with the objective of Europe-wide distribution
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