DGAP-News: Linde AG: Linde AG Supervisory Board appoints new Executive Board members

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Linde AG: Linde AG Supervisory Board appoints new Executive Board
members

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Linde AG Supervisory Board appoints new Executive Board members

  - Executive Board member Professor Dr Aldo Belloni to retire at the end
    of the year

  - Internal successors appointed: Dr Christian Bruch and Bernd Eulitz

  - Bruch to be the Executive Board member responsible for the Engineering
    Division

  - Eulitz to assume responsibility on the Executive Board for the EMEA
    segment (Europe, Middle East, Africa) of the Gases Division

Munich, 5 December 2014 - The Linde AG Supervisory Board has appointed Dr
Christian Bruch (44) and Bernd Eulitz (49) as new members of its Executive
Board with effect from 1 January 2015. Bruch and Eulitz will succeed
Professor Dr Aldo Belloni (64), who will step down from the Linde AG
Executive Board and retire when his contract runs out on 31 December 2014.
Belloni has worked in leading roles in Linde AG since 1980. He has been a
member of the Executive Board since 2000 and has in recent years been
responsible for the Engineering Division and also for the EMEA segment
(Europe, Middle East, Africa) and the tonnage (on-site) Global Business
Unit of the Gases Division.

"For more than three decades, Aldo Belloni has given exceptional service to
The Linde Group and has made a significant contribution to the successful
performance of the company," said Dr Manfred Schneider, Chairman of the
Linde AG Supervisory Board. "We would like to thank him for his great
achievements and tireless commitment to Linde."

Christian Bruch will assume Belloni's responsibility on the Linde AG
Executive Board for the Group's Engineering Division. Bruch, who holds a
doctorate in engineering, has worked in management roles in Linde's Gases
and Engineering Divisions since 2004. His most recent position was on the
Management Board of Linde Engineering.

Bernd Eulitz will be the Executive Board member responsible for the EMEA
segment of the Group's gases business. Since he joined the company in 2004,
Eulitz, a graduate engineer, has assumed various management functions in
the Gases Division. Recently, he has been based in Singapore and has been
responsible for the South & East Asia Regional Business Unit.

In the 2013 financial year, The Linde Group generated revenue of EUR 16.655
bn, making it the largest gases and engineering company in the world with
approximately 63,500 employees working in more than 100 countries
worldwide. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards long-term
profitable growth and focuses on the expansion of its international
business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly
towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the
environment - in every one of its business areas, regions and locations
across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products
that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.

For more information, see The Linde Group online at www.linde.com

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Language:    English                                                    
Company:     Linde AG                                                   
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             80331 München                                              
             Germany                                                    
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WKN:         648300                                                     
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