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PRESS RELEASE: GENEART: Applied Biosystems Deutschland GmbH holds 95% of GENEART Shares
PRESS RELEASE: GENEART: Applied Biosystems Deutschland GmbH holds 95% of GENEART Shares
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Regensburg, August 3, 2010 - The majority shareholder of GENEART AG, Regensburg,
Applied Biosystems Deutschland GmbH, Darmstadt ("ABD"), directly holds more than
95% of all shares in GENEART AG as noticed by ABD. ABD informed the management
board of GENEART AG about this fact by letter dated August/3/2010.
By virtue of this letter ABD also requested that the general meeting of GENEART
AG may resolve upon the transfer of shares of the minority shareholders to ABD
against payment of an adequate cash consideration (Section 327a para. 1 sentence
1 German Stock Corporation Act, Aktiengesetz, "AktG", so-called Squeeze-Out).
The management board of GENEART AG intends to comply with this request and to
convene an extraordinary general meeting. This meeting will presumably take
place at a time in the last quarter of 2010.
GENEART and ABD still intend to conclude a domination agreement (Section 291 et
seq. AktG) with GENEART AG as dominated and ABD as dominating entity. The
domination agreement shall be submitted for approval to this extraordinary
general meeting.
For further inquiries, please contact:
Dr. Karoline Stürmer
GENEART AG
Josef-Engert-Str. 11
93053 Regensburg
Germany
Phone: +49-(0)941-942 76-417
Fax: +49-(0)941-942 76-711
ir@geneart.com
www.geneart.com
Frank Ostermair
Better Orange IR & HV AG
Haidelweg 48
81241 Munich
Germany
Phone: +49-(0)89-8896906-10
Fax: +49-(0)89-8896906-66
info@better-orange.de
www.better-orange.de
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About GENEART AG:
In 2000 GENEART entered the Gene Synthesis market and has since become the
global market leader. Today, the company is one of the leading specialists in
the Synthetic Biology field. Experts at GENEART provide key technologies for the
development and production of new therapeutics and vaccines. Customers also take
advantage of GENEART services to customize enzyme attributes, such as the
attributes of enzymes used as detergent additives, and to construct bacteria,
which produce complex biopolymers or break down polymers, such as synthetics,
petroleum components, etc. GENEART's service portfolio ranges from the
optimization and production of synthetic genes according to DIN EN ISO
9001:2008, to the generation of gene variants or complex gene libraries and the
production of cell lines, to the development and production of DNA and protein
based drug candidates. GENEART AG in Regensburg and its subsidiaries GENEART
Inc. in Toronto (Canada) and GENEART Inc. in San Francisco (USA) employ about
180 people. The company is listed on the German Stock Exchange since May 2006.
Since April 2010, U.S.- based Life Technologies Corporation, one of the leading
biotechnology companies worldwide with 2009 revenues of USD 3.3B and about
9,000 employees, is the majority shareholder of GENEART AG.
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Geneart AG
Josef-Engert-Str.11 Regensburg Germany
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Freiverkehr in Börse Berlin,
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