DGAP-Adhoc: Carl Zeiss Meditec in advanced negotiations with Abbott Medical Optics Inc. about US commercial collaboration agreement in the field of cataract surgery

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Carl Zeiss Meditec in advanced negotiations with Abbott Medical Optics Inc.
about US commercial collaboration agreement in the field of cataract
surgery


Jena, 16 October 2014: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (ISIN: DE0005313704) is in
advanced negotiations about a US commercial collaboration agreement with
Abbott Medical Optics Inc. (AMO), Santa Ana, USA in the field of cataract
surgery. Closing of the collaboration agreement is expected shortly.

The aim of the collaboration is to establish a new distribution channel for
ZEISS devices for cataract surgery in addition to the existing ZEISS sales
channel.

The intended agreement shall be non-exclusive and limited to the US market.


Contact for investors 
Sebastian Frericks, Director Investor Relations, Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
Tel. +49 3641 220-116, E-Mail: investors.meditec@zeiss.com 

Press contact 
Jann Gerrit Ohlendorf, Director Corporate Communications, Carl Zeiss
Meditec AG
Tel. +49 3641 220-331, E-Mail: press.meditec@zeiss.com 


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Language:     English
Company:      Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
              Göschwitzer Str. 51-52
              07745 Jena
              Germany
Phone:        +49 (0)3641 220-0
Fax:          +49 (0)3641 220-112
E-mail:       investors.meditec@zeiss.com,info.meditec@zeiss.com
Internet:     www.meditec.zeiss.de
ISIN:         DE0005313704
WKN:          531370
Listed:       Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
              in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover, München, Stuttgart
 
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