Release according to sec. 26 para 1 WpHG

By letter of 23 September 2013 Joh. Berenberg Gossler & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany, 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 3%, 5%, 10% and 15% as of 17 September 2013 and as of this day amounts to 19.99% (15,665,266 voting rights).

By letter of 23 September 2013 Joh. Berenberg Gossler & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany, has informed us according to Sec. 21 para 1 WpHG, that their share voting rights of GILDEMEISTER Aktiengesellschaft, Gildemeister-straße 60, 33689 Bielefeld, Germany, has fallen below the thresholds of 15%, 10%, 5% and 3% as of 18 September 2013 and as of this day amounts to 0% (0 voting rights).

GILDEMEISTER Aktiengesellschaft
The Executive Board