EANS-Voting Rights: Symrise AG
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is responsible for the content of this announcement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG (share) Person/company obliged to make the notification: ----------------------------------- Name: Siehe Meldungstext Place: Siehe Meldungstext State: Siehe Meldungstext Prudential plc, London, United Kingdom, informed us on September 7, 2012 pursuant to § 21 Paragraph 1 of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG) that its share of the voting rights in Symrise AG dropped below the 15% threshold on September 4, 2012 and on that day amounted to 14.984%. This corresponds to 17,707,372 voting rights. Of this amount, 14.962% (17,681,181 voting rights) is attributed to it in accordance with Section 22 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 No. 6 in conjunction with Section 22 Paragraph 1 Sentence 2 of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG). A further 0,022% (26,191 voting rights) of these voting rights is attributed to it in accordance with Section 22 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 No. 1 of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG). Voting rights of the following shareholders whose proportion of the voting rights in Symrise AG in each case amounts to 3% or more are thereby attributed to the company: M&G Investment Funds (1). Holzminden, September, 2012 Symrise Aktiengesellschaft The Management Board Further inquiry note: Symrise AG Investor Relations Tobias Erfurth ir@symrise.com end of announcement euro adhoc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- issuer: Symrise AG Mühlenfeldstraße 1 D-37603 Holzminden phone: +49 (0) 5531/90-0 FAX: +49 (0) 5531/90-1649 mail: ir@symrise.com WWW: http://www.symrise.com sector: Chemicals ISIN: DE000SYM9999 indexes: MDAX stockmarkets: free trade: Hannover, Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt language: English
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