METRO AG 04.11.2014 13:45 Dissemination of a Voting Rights Announcement, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On November 3, 2014, Gebr. Schmidt Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Essen, Germany, informed us according to sec. 21 et seq. of the WpHG that its share of voting rights in METRO AG, Dusseldorf, Germany, fell below the thresholds of 30%, 25% and 20% on November 1, 2014, and on that day amounts to 15.77% of the voting rights (51,117,363 voting rights). Thereof, 2.60% of the voting rights (8,426,849 voting rights) are attributed to Gebr. Schmidt Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH according to sec. 22 para. 1 sentence 1 no. 1 of the WpHG, further 13.17% of the voting rights (42,690,514 voting rights) are attributed to it according to sec. 22 para. 1 sentence 1 no. 2 in connection with sentence 2 of the WpHG. Voting rights of the following shareholders, whose attributed share of voting rights in METRO AG in each case amounts to 3% or more, are attributed to Gebr. Schmidt Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH: - METRO Vermögensverwaltung GmbH & Co. KG; - 1. HSB Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH & Co. KG. 04.11.2014 The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: METRO AG Metro-StraÃe 1 40235 Düsseldorf Germany Internet: www.metrogroup.de End of Announcement DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DGAP-PVR: METRO AG: Release according to sec. 26 para. 1 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] with the objective of Europe-wide distribution
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