Lenzing AG

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Apr 7, 2017

Send Time: 07.04.2017 13:44

EANS-Voting Rights: Lenzing AG / Release according to article 93 BörseG with the aim of a Europe-wide distribution from Apr 06, 2017 at 09:14

Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is responsible for the content of this announcement.

Release according to article 93 BörseG with the aim of a Europe-wide distribution

Person/company obliged to make the notification:

----------------------------------- Name: B & C Privatstiftung Place: Wien State: Österreich

Name of shareholder(s): B & C Lenzing Holding GmbH, B & C Industrieholding GmbH, B & C Iota GmbH & Co KG

Date on which the threshold was crossed or reached: 3.4.2017

Currently, via its (direct and indirect) subsidiaries B & C Industrieholding GmbH, B & C Lenzing Holding GmbH and B & C Iota GmbH & Co KG, a total of 16,610,960 voting rights (equivalent to approx. 62.56% of the share capital and voting rights) in Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft are attributable to B & C Privatstiftung pursuant to sec 92 (4) Stock Exchange Act.

In the course of several demergers within the group, the 13,432,205 voting rights in Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft directly held by B & C Lenzing Holding GmbH shall be transferred first to B & C Industrieholding GmbH, to be further transferred to B & C Holding Österreich GmbH together with the 2,497,796 voting rights in Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft already held directly by B & C Industrieholding GmbH. From the 15,930,001 voting rights in Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft acquired by B & C Holding Österreich GmbH as a result of these demergers, B & C Holding Österreich GmbH will transfer 13,275,002 voting rights in Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft further on to B & C Helios GmbH, another 100% subsidiary of B & C Privatstiftung, again by way of a demerger. The voting rights concerned by these demergers are hereby disclosed pursuant to sec 91a Stock Exchange Act.

In this context, B & C Privatstiftung notes that further restructuring will take place within its group. The shareholdings in Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft will not change due to this internal restructuring and after all restructuring steps have been completed B & C Group will still hold 16,610,960 voting rights (equivalent to approx.. 62.56% of the share capital and voting rights ) in Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft.

Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation:

Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial/other instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entity:

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				Financial/
			Directly Shares held	other
No.	Name			controlled _directly instruments Total of
		by No.	(%)	held	both (%)
				_directly
	_ ___ _ __ (%)_ ____
1	B & C
	_ Privatstiftung_ _ __ _ _
2	B & C Holding	1		60,00 %	60,00 %
	_ ÖsterreichGmbH_ _ __ _ _
	B & C
3	Industrieholding	2	9,41 %	50,59 %	60,00 %
	_ GmbH_ __ _ __ ____
4	B & C Lenzing	3	50,59 %		50,59 %
	_ HoldingGmbH __ _ __ ____
5	B & C Iota GmbH	1	2,56 %		2,56 %
	_ &Co_KG_ __ ___ __ ____
6	B & C Helios	1		50,00 %	50,00 %

	_ GmbH_ __ _ __ ____
	_ ___ _ __ _ _
	Further inquiry note:
Lenzing AG
	Mag. Waltraud Kaserer
	Vice President Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
	Tel.: +43 (0) 7672 701-2713
	mailto:w.kaserer@lenzing.com
issuer:	Lenzing AG
	A-A-4860 Lenzing
phone:	+43 7672-701-0
FAX:	+43 7672-96301
mail:	office@lenzing.com
WWW:	http://www.lenzing.com
sector:	Chemicals
ISIN:	AT0000644505
indexes:	WBI, ATX, Prime Market
	stockmarkets: official market: Wien
language:	English
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