EANS-Voting Rights: HeidelbergCement AG / Release of a voting rights announcement according to article 26, section 1.1 WpHG (Securities Trading Act) with the aim of a Europe-wide distribution

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Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is
responsible for the content of this announcement.
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Person/company obliged to make the notification:
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Name: UBH Unternehmens- und Beteiligungsholding mbH
Place: Frankfurt
State: Germany

Company data:
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Name: HeidelbergCement AG
Address: Berliner Straße 6, 69120 Heidelberg
Place: Heidelberg
State: Germany

06.05.2009

UBH Unternehmens- und Beteiligungsholding mbH, Frankfurt, Germany,
has notified us pursuant to Art. 21 I German Securities Trading Act
of the following:

"Hereby we notify you pursuant to Art. 21 I German Securities Trading
Act, that on 5 January 2009 (day of Adolf Merckle's death) out voting
rights went over the thresholds of 3%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%
and 50% and on that day amounts to 53.67% of the voting rights
(67,090,070 voting rights).

Out of these 53.58% of the voting rights (66,970,070 voting rights)
are assigned to us pursuant to Art. 22 I S. 1 No. 1 German Securities
Trading Act.

The voting rights assigned to us are held by the following companies
controlled by us whose votings rights in HeidelbergCement AG amount
to 3% or more:

- Spohn Cement GmbH
- Kötitzer Ledertuch- und Wachstuch-Werke Aktiengesellschaft
- KL Holding GmbH
- Ludwig Merckle GmbH & Co. KG
- L. Merckle GmbH

The opening of the will of Adolf Merckle was on 30 April 2009."

Heidelberg, 6 May 2009
The Managing Board

end of announcement euro adhoc
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ots Originaltext: HeidelbergCement AG
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