EANS-News: Semperit AG Holding / Annual General Meeting approves dividend of EUR 0.80 per share / Supervisory Board extends mandate of CEO Thomas Fahnemann until December 31, 2016

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Annual & Special Corporate Meetings

Wien (euro adhoc) - Vienna, April 30, 2013 - This year's Annual
General Meeting of Semperit AG Holding approved an unchanged dividend
to previous year of EUR 0.80 per share for 2012. This corresponds to
a dividend payout of 35.6% of net profit compared to 31.7% in 2011
and is therefore in line with the growth-oriented dividend policy.
The ex-dividend day is scheduled for May 7, 2013. The dividend
payment date is set for May 14, 2013.

The expired Supervisory Board mandates of Dr. Michael Junghans
(Deputy Chairman) and Mag. Andreas Schmidradner were extended by the
Annual General Meeting. With respect to the shareholder
representatives, the Supervisory Board consists of Veit Sorger
(Chairman), Michael Junghans (Deputy Chairman), Walter Koppensteiner,
Patrick Prügger, Andreas Schmidradner and Ingrid Wesseln.

Moreover, the Annual General Meeting of Semperit AG Holding
discharged the members of the Management Board and Supervisory Board
from liability with respect to their management and supervisory
activities in 2012. Ernst & Young Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
m.b.H., Vienna, was again appointed to serve as the auditor of the
financial statements and consolidated financial statements for 2013.

In today's constituent meeting of the Supervisory Board Veit Sorger
as Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Michael Junghans as Deputy
Chairman were reelected.

The Supervisory Board has extended at today's meeting the mandate of
Chief Executive Officer Thomas Fahnemann by three years and one month
until December 31, 2016.

Thomas Fahnemann has been working for Semperit since December 1,
2010, and was appointed to serve as Chief Executive Officer on April
14, 2011. He heads the Medical and Industrial Sector and is also
responsible for Corporate Development, Human Resources,
Communications, Procurement and Logistics.

Thus the composition of the Management Board of Semperit AG Holding
remains unchanged, consisting of Chief Executive Officer Thomas
Fahnemann, Chief Financial Officer Johannes Schmidt-Schultes and the
Chief Technology Officer Richard Ehrenfeldner.

About Semperit The publicly listed Semperit AG Holding company is an
internationally-oriented group that develops, produces, and sells
highly specialised rubber and plastic products for the medical and
industrial sectors: examination and surgical gloves, hydraulic and
industrial hoses, conveyor belts, escalator handrails, construction
profiles, cable car rings, and products for railway superstructures.
The headquarters of this long-standing Austrian company, which was
founded in 1824, are located in Vienna, and the global R & D centre
is in Wimpassing, Lower Austria. The Semperit Group employs about
9,600 people worldwide, including more than 7,000 in Asia and more
than 700 in Austria. The group has 22 manufacturing facilities
worldwide and numerous sales offices in Europe, Asia, and America. In
fiscal 2012, the group generated sales of EUR 829 million and an
EBITDA of EUR 109 million.

About Thomas Fahnemann Following his studies in business
administration in Mainz, Germany, Thomas Fahnemann completed an
Executive MBA Program at Northwestern University in Chicago. Thomas
Fahnemann began his professional career with Hoechst AG in Frankfurt
in 1983. He subsequently assumed several executive positions in
Germany and the USA. In 1995, he was named Group Department Manager
for Trevira in North Carolina, USA and later served as Chief
Operating Officer for KoSa in Houston, USA starting in 1998. In 2003,
he returned to Austria and worked as CEO and Chairman of the
Management Board of Lenzing AG. From 2009 to 2010 he assumed the
position of Chairman of the Management Board of RHI AG based in
Vienna. Thomas Fahnemann was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in
1961. He is married and has four children.

Further inquiry note:
Martina Büchele
Head of Group Communications
Tel.: +43 676 8715 8621
martina.buechele@semperitgroup.com
www.semperitgroup.com
www.facebook.com/SemperitAGHolding
https://twitter.com/semperitgroup

Clemens Taschée
Head of Group Accounting
Tel.: +43 (1)79 777-230
clemens.taschee@semperitgroup.com

Stefan Marin
Investor Relations
Tel.: +43 676 8715 8210
stefan.marin@semperitgroup.com

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company: Semperit AG Holding
Modecenterstrasse 22
A-1030 Wien
phone: +43 1 79 777-210
FAX: +43 1 79 777-602
mail: investor@semperitgroup.com
WWW: www.semperitgroup.com
sector: Synthetics & Plastics
ISIN: AT0000785555
indexes: WBI, ViDX, Prime Market
stockmarkets: free trade: Berlin, official market: Wien, stock market: Stuttgart,
Frankfurt
language: English