Voting Rights Announcements
Disclosure of voting rights (ordinary shares)
Pursuant to the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG), any individual or company whose share of voting rights and/or related financial instruments reaches, exceeds or falls below the percentages specified (thresholds) is obliged to inform the affected company of this immediately.
The reporting thresholds are 3%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 50% or 75% of the voting rights in a listed company.
Notifications pursuant to Section 33 of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG) - Investments in Companies
Shareholder | Shareholding in % | Date of publication by FUCHS SE |
|---|---|---|
Share of more than 50% | ||
Members of Fuchs Protective Association, Germany | 51.7* | 3/16/2009 |
Share of more than 5% | ||
DWS Investment, Germany | 5.0 | 10/13/2023 |
Share of more than 3% | ||
Norges Bank | 3.0 | 1/23/2024 |
*Share equity as of December 31, 2023: 55%
Notifications of Voting Rights according to sections 33 et seq. of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG)
According to sections 33 et seq. of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG) shareholders are obliged to notify any changes in their voting rights in relation to their shares held in FUCHS SE in the event that their holdings meet, exceed or fall below of the legal thresholds. This applies mutatis mutandis to instruments according to section 38 WpHG.
Shareholders concerned by these requirements have to notify the change in voting rights without undue delay to FUCHS SE and simultaneously to the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), at the latest within four trading days under consideration of section 33 (1) and (2) of the WpHG.
We kindly request any shareholder obliged to inform FUCHS SE about changes in their voting rights pursuant to sections 33 et seq. WpHG to send the relevant notification to the following address:
FUCHS SE
Investor Relations
Einsteinstraße 11
68169 Mannheim
Fax: +49 621 3802 7274
Email: ir@fuchs.com
Further, we wish to instruct our shareholders that pursuant to section 33 (1) sentence 1 of the WpHG any voting rights notification must be sent simultaneously to BaFin. BaFin has published information of the publication requirements as well as notification forms pursuant to section 33 WpHG on its website.