Bayer Aktiengesellschaft / Release of an announcement according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] (share) 13.08.2010 12:01 Dissemination of a Voting Rights Announcement, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- By letter dated on August 11, 2010 the announcing entity BlackRock, Inc., New York, USA, has notified us, the issuer Bayer AG, 51373 Leverkusen, Germany, pursuant to Article 21, Section 1 of the Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandelsgesetz - 'WpHG') as follows: The amount of voting rights of BlackRock, Inc. in Bayer AG have exceeded the threshold of 5% on August 5, 2010 and amounts to 5.04% (41,709,659 voting rights) on that day. All of the voting rights are attributable to BlackRock, Inc. pursuant to Article 22 Section 1 Sentence 1 No 6 in connection with Sentence 2 WpHG. 13.08.2010 12:01 Ad hoc announcement, Financial News and Press 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|]]]|] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 1 51373 Leverkusen Deutschland Internet: www.bayer-ag.de End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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