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Clearstream Banking1 hereby informs customers that effective
8 January 2016
a squeeze-out of minority shareholders in BEKO Holding AG registered shares (ISIN AT000A0ZHT2) will take place.
The following schedule applies:
Squeeze-out on ex-date 8 January 2016
Starting 6 January 2016, no re-registration/registration instructions or shareholder data changes will be forwarded from CASCADE-RS to the shareholder register.
Clearstream Banking will perform the closing out automatically. Holdings will be transferred in standard processing on 7 January 2016. Securities will be transferred in standard processing with value date 8 January 2016.
On 8 January 2016, compensation plus interest will be paid to the squeezed-out shareholders on the holdings recorded in the books as of 7 January 2016 in the evening.
OTC transactions
The banks are to ensure that all OTC transactions are processed at the latest on 7 January 2016 in the second SDS.
After the second SDS on 7 January 2016, the banks must delete outstanding OTC transactions manually by 19:00 on the same day. Deletion is not automatic.
Additional information will be published in WSS-CBF.
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1. This Announcement is published by Clearstream Banking AG (CBF), registered office at Mergenthalerallee 61, 65760 Eschborn, Germany, registered with the Commercial Register of the District Court in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, under number HRB 7500.