Hugo Boss AG: Measures in the share register and CASCADE-RS

The following measures relating to the share register and collective safe custody (CSC) for registered shares of Hugo Boss AG (ISIN DE000A1PHFF7) will be implemented in December 2015.

The following schedule applies:

11-13 December 2015
Migration of the share register to the STARiS system and switching to the share register manager ADEUS Aktienregister-Service-GmbH.
12-13 December 2015
Allocation and transfer of the new shareholder numbers into CASCADE-RS
14 December 2015
Availability of the new shareholder numbers in the share register STARiS and in CASCADE-RS

Migration of the share register

Transmission stop / ALU stop

There will be a transmission stop during the course of the migration of the share register to STARiS from 4 December 2015 to 11 December 2015 inclusive. The next transmission to the share register will be implemented on 14 December 2015.

Starting from 14 December 2015, the entry and control of orders for re-registration and registration will again be possible with the current re-registration/registration date.

All instructions transmitted to Clearstream Banking¹ during the transmission stop will be forwarded to the share register on 14 December 2015.

Automatic re-registration to the nominee will also be interrupted from 4 December 2015 to 18 Dezember 2015 inclusive.

Shareholder numbers in orders

Banks that supply the respective shareholder number at re-registration/registration orders in favour of the leading shareholder must use the new shareholder number starting from 14 December 2015. During re-registration/registration orders in favour of the leading shareholder without submission of a shareholder number, CASCADE-RS adds the new shareholder number to the respective order, if there is correct and unique referencing of the securities holder (see below for additional information about this). In orders (for example, shareholder data changes) that are still outstanding in CASCADE-RS, CBF replaces the previous shareholder number with the new shareholder number during the conversion.

Contact person at the share register

Up until the end of the migration phase (14 December 2015), banks may contact the following contact person at ADEUS, should they have any questions concerning migration (in addition to contact persons at CBF):

Mr Torsten Dietrich
Telephone: +49(0) 89-3800 17 261
Email: torsten.dietrich@adeus.com

Mr Stefan Schmöller
Telephone: +49(0) 89-3800 4539
Email: stefan.schmoeller@adeus.com

New shareholder numbers

This only affects banks that transmit the shareholder numbers in DFÜ orders to CASCADE-RS.

Availability in CASCADE-RS

The new shareholder numbers are valid for all orders placed in CASCADE-RS starting from 14 December 2015.

Recoding old/new shareholder numbers

Starting from 14 December 2015, holding queries (KVCB) can be requested using the new shareholder numbers. Owing to technical reasons, the time of creating holding queries amounting to 10,000 shareholders or more per bank must be coordinated in advance with Client Services.

Upon request, CBF also provides a conversion table per bank "Old/new shareholder numbers" in CSV format (solely per email) starting from 14 December 2015. The table contains the fields "Bank", "ISIN", "Customer reference" (GIT1 "Institute reference", GIT2 "Account reference"), the "Legal/natural person" indicator, birth date, "Additional identification", "Shareholder number" and "New shareholder number" per shareholder. A new shareholder number is allocated to every shareholder number in CASCADE-RS. Several data records can be contained in the conversion table per shareholder number, depending on the number of securities holders per customer reference. An example of such a file is is attached to this announcement. The conversion table can be ordered without using a form until 4 December 2015 via email to registeredshares@clearstream.com stating the bank number and the return email address. The table is free of charge for banks.

Contact person of the share register

The share register will be managed by ADEUS Aktienregister-Service-GmbH starting from 14 December 2015. Consequently, requests and correspondence, particularly concerning transaction costs, are to be directed to:

ADEUS Aktienregister-Service-GmbH
Königinstr. 28
80802 Munich
Telephone: +49-(0) 89-3800 3900

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1. This Announcement is published by Clearstream Banking AG (CBF), registered office at Mergenthaleralle 61, 65760 Eschborn, Germany, registered with the Commercial Register of the District Court in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, under number HRB 7500.