By letter of 15 April 2011 Mori Seiki Co., Ltd., Nagoya, Japan, has informed us according to § 21 para 1 WpHG, that their share of voting rights of GILDEMEISTER Aktiengesellschaft, Gildemeisterstraße 60, 33689 Bielefeld, Germany, has exceeded the thresholds of 15% and 20% as at 15 April 2011 and as of this day amounts to 20.10% (12,093,817 voting rights). According to § 22 para 1 sentence 1 no. 1 WpHG 4.55% (2,735,400 voting rights) are attributed to Mori Seiki Co., Ltd. via Mori Seiki International S.A.

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