EANS-Adhoc: K+S Aktiengesellschaft / Significant rise in Q3 revenues and earnings / Forecast raised for year as a whole

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9-month report

02.11.2010

Third quarter revenues and operating earnings (EBIT I) reach EUR
1,061.2 million (+52% against the previous year) and EUR 108.5
million (+1,054% against the previous year) respectively / Therefore,
K+S quarterly figures are considerably higher than the figures for
the same period last year and, in some parts, significantly above
consensus expectations / K+S Group´s operating earnings (EBIT I)
forecast for 2010 raised from previously EUR 550-600 million to EUR
630-670 million

Today (2 November 2010), the Board of Executive Directors of K+S AG
prepared the interim financial statements as of 30 September 2010.
Because the K+S Group´s third quarter revenues and earnings figures
are not only considerably above the corresponding figures for the
previous year, but, especially in the Salt business segment, also
clearly exceed the existing consensus expectations, significant key
financial data for the third quarter are already being released
today: Revenues reached EUR 1,061.2 million (Q3/09: EUR 698.1
million), operating earnings (EBIT I) EUR 108.5 million (Q3/09: EUR
9.4 million), and adjusted earnings after taxes, including non-cash
extraordinary interest expenses for mining provisions, EUR 40.4
million or EUR 0.21 per share (Q3/09: EUR (2.1) million or EUR (0.01)
per share).

Conditions on global fertilizer markets have improved continuously
and significantly since the beginning of the year; salt markets in
Western Europe and in North and South America prove to be stable on a
high level. In the earnings forecast for the whole of 2010 issued by
the Board of Executive Directors on 5 August 2010, among other
things, the international prices of fertilizers at this point in time
have been taken into account as usual. Since then, the business
environment has undergone a further recovery and prices, especially
in the case of potash, have increased so that in the course of its
regular internal earnings estimates, the Board of Executive Directors
now expects the K+S Group´s operating earnings (EBIT I) to reach EUR
630-670 million (previously: EUR 550-600 million).

As planned, the K+S Group will release an overall view of third
quarter figures, including a detailed outlook, in its interim report
on 11 November 2010.

K+S Aktiengesellschaft
Kassel, 2 November 2010
The Board of Executive Directors

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