EANS-News: Lenzing AG / Lenzing Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting Resolves to Distribute a Dividend of EUR 2.00 per Share

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Lenzing (euro adhoc) - Vienna/Lenzing, April 24, 2013. The Ordinary
Shareholders' Meeting of Lenzing AG resolved to distribute a dividend
of EUR 2.00 per share for the 2012 financial year (compared to EUR
2.50 per share for the previous year).This consists of a minimum
dividend of EUR 1.75 per share as well as an anniversary bonus of EUR
0.25 per share on the occasion of the company's 75 years in business.
The dividend payment has been scheduled for April 30, 2013, with
April 26, 2013 set as the ex-dividend day.

Furthermore, Franz Gasselsberger was elected to the Supervisory Board
for the first time. Mr. Gasselsberger is Chief Executive Officer of
Oberbank AG, a longstanding and important shareholder of Lenzing AG.
He will strengthen the professional competence of the Supervisory
Board, particularly on the basis of his financial expertise. The
Supervisory Board mandates of Michael Junghans and Patrick Prügger
were extended for a further three years.

Accordingly, the Supervisory Board now consists of Michael Junghans,
Helmut Bernkopf, Franz Gasselsberger Josef Krenner, Martin Payer and
Patrick Prügger as well as Andreas Schmidradner, Astrid Skala-Kuhmann
and Veit Sorger.

Today's Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting also adopted a resolution
discharging the members of the Management Board and Supervisory Board
for the 2012 financial year. Moreover, the Ordinary Shareholders'
Meeting resolved upon the remuneration for the Supervisory Board
members for the 2012 financial year.

Deloitte Audit Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft mbH, Vienna, was
appointed as the auditor of the annual accounts and the consolidated
financial statements for the 2013 financial year.

The subsequent constituent meeting of the new Supervisory Board
re-elected Michael Junghans as Chairman of the Supervisory Board and
Veit Sorger to serve as the Deputy Chairman.

Further inquiry note:
Lenzing AG
Mag. Angelika Guldt
Tel.: +43 (0) 7672-701-2713
Fax: +43 (0) 7672-918-2713
mailto:a.guldt@lenzing.com

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company: Lenzing AG

A-A-4860 Lenzing
phone: +43 7672-701-0
FAX: +43 7672-96301
mail: a.guldt@lenzing.com
WWW: http://www.lenzing.com
sector: Chemicals
ISIN: AT0000644505
indexes: WBI, ATX, Prime Market
stockmarkets: free trade: Berlin, official market: Wien
language: English