Supervisory Board and Executive Board Proposals to the Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Sartorius AG

Goettingen, February 25, 2016 – At today's meeting, the Supervisory Board of  Sartorius AG approved the Executive Board's recommendation to submit a proposal to the Annual Shareholders' Meeting on April 7, 2016, to raise dividends to 1.52 euros per preference share (previous year: 1.08 euros) and 1.50 euros per ordinary share (previous year: 1.06 euros). If approved, the total amount disbursed under this proposal would thus rise by 41.5% year over year from 18.2 million euros to 25.8 million euros.In addition, a resolution to increase share capital by use of retained earnings for carrying out a so-called stock split will also be submitted to the Annual Shareholders' Meeting in order to encourage trading with Sartorius shares and make them attractive to even broader groups of investors. Under this proposal, every shareholder would receive three additional shares of the same type for every share held, without an additional payment. For this purpose, capital reserves would be converted and share capital would accordingly quadruple to 74,880,000 euros. This share capital increase from retained earnings would not have any impact on the company's equity. Furthermore, a surplus dividend of 0.01 euro per preference share and a minimum dividend of 0.02 euro per preference share would be established.

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