EANS-Adhoc: Basler AG / Resolution adopted about buying additional own shares

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responsible for the content of this announcement.
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15.03.2012

Ahrensburg, March 15, 2012. Basler AG will buy back additional bearer
shares with an equivalent value of up to EUR 1 million via the stock
market. The Management Board of the company together with the
Supervisory Board has decided today to take this action. The buyback
will be carried out starting on March 16, 2012, extending the share
buyback program started on September 22, 2011.

The general meeting of May 18, 2010, authorized the company to buy
back own shares amounting to a total of up to 10 % of the share
capital of the corporation existing at the time the resolution was
adopted. The authorization is approved until May 18, 2015. The shares
can be used for all purposes provided for in the authorization of the
general meeting of May 18, 2010. This includes among others using the
shares as consideration related to the acquisition of companies.
Basler AG wants to make use of the currently favorable share value
and have available the package of shares to be acquired for the above
purpose. When acquiring own shares via the stock exchange, the price
paid per share (without considering incidental purchase costs) must
not differ by more than 10 % from the share price of the company for
shares with same conditions as determined on the trading day by the
opening auction day for XETRA trade on the Frankfurt stock exchange.

The buyback will be carried out through a credit institution that
will decide upon the time of the individual buybacks independently of
Basler AG according to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2273/2003 of
December 22, 2003. The relevant average daily turnover of shares is
calculated on the basis of the average daily trading volume during
the month of February of 2012.

Further inquiry note:
Verena Fehling
Investor Relations
Telefon: +49(0)4102 463-101
E-Mail: ir@baslerweb.com

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issuer: Basler AG
An der Strusbek 60-62
D-22926 Ahrensburg
phone: +49 (0) 4102 463 0
FAX: +49 (0) 4102 463 108
mail: info@baslerweb.com
WWW: http://www.baslerweb.com
sector: Semiconductors & active components
ISIN: DE0005102008
indexes: CDAX
stockmarkets: free trade: Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart,
regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt
language: English