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M&A Activity • Jul 13, 2012

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Takeover Bids | 13 July 2012 11:35

Takeover Offer;

Target company: WMF Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG; Bidder: Blitz 12-463 GmbH (zukünftig firmierend unter Finedining Capital GmbH)

Dissemination of an announcement according to the German Securities

Acquisition and Takeover Act (WpÜG), transmitted by DGAP – a company of

EquityStory AG.

The bidder is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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Amendment to the Announcement of the Decision to Make a Voluntary Public

Takeover Offer (freiwilliges öffentliches Übernahmeangebot) pursuant to

Section 10 para. 1 in conjunction with Sections 29, 34 of the German

Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act (Wertpapiererwerbs- und

Übernahmegesetz – ‘WpÜG’)

Bidder:

Blitz 12-463 GmbH (to be renamed Finedining Capital GmbH)

c/o Hengeler Mueller

Leopoldstraße 8-10

80802 München

Germany

registered in the commercial register of the local court (Amtsgericht) of

Munich under HRB 199653

Target:

WMF Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft

Eberhardstrasse 17-47

73309 Geislingen an der Steige

Germany

registered in the commercial register of the local court (Amtsgericht) of

Ulm under HRB 540215

ISIN: DE0007803009 and DE0007803033 (WKN 780300 and 780303)

On 6 July 2012, Blitz 12-463 GmbH (to be renamed in Finedining Capital

GmbH) (the ‘Bidder’), a holding company controlled by funds advised by

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P., announced its decision to make a

voluntary public takeover offer to the shareholders of WMF Württembergische

Metallwarenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft to acquire their ordinary bearer

shares in WMF Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft, each

representing a pro-rata amount of the share capital of EUR 2.56 (the ‘WMF

Ordinary Shares’), and their preference bearer shares in WMF

Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft, each representing a

pro-rata amount of the share capital of EUR 2.56 (the ‘WMF Preference

Shares’), against payment of a cash consideration of EUR 47.00 per WMF

Ordinary Share and against a cash consideration equal to the

volume-weighted average domestic stock exchange price of the WMF Preference

Shares during the last three months prior to the date of the announcement

of its decision to make such voluntary public takeover offer on 6 July

2012, but in any case not less than EUR 31.70 per WMF Preference Share (the

‘Takeover Offer’).

Today, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt

für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht) has informed the Bidder that the

volume-weighted average domestic stock exchange price of the WMF Preference

Share during the last three months prior to the date of the announcement of

its decision to make the Takeover Offer on 6 July 2012 amounts to EUR

31.80. Therefore, the Bidder will offer to acquire the WMF Preference

Shares under the Takeover Offer against payment of a cash consideration of

EUR 31.80 per WMF Preference Share.

The offer document and further information relating to the Takeover Offer

will be published on the internet at www.finediningcapital-offer.com.

Further Information:

The Takeover Offer will be made subject to the clearance by the cartel

authorities. Apart from this, the Takeover Offer will be made on and

subject to the terms and conditions to be set out in the offer document.

Important Notice:

This announcement is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an

offer to sell shares of WMF Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik

Aktiengesellschaft. The definite terms and conditions of the Takeover

Offer, as well as further provisions concerning the Takeover Offer, will be

published in the offer document only after the German Federal Financial

Supervisory Authority has granted permission to publish the offer document.

Investors and holders of shares in WMF Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik

Aktiengesellschaft are strongly advised to read the offer document and all

other relevant documents regarding the Takeover Offer when they become

available, since they will contain important information.

Munich, 13 July 2012

Blitz 12-463 GmbH (to be renamed Finedining Capital GmbH)

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Listed: Regulated Market (Regulierter Markt) in Frankfurt (General

Standard) and Stuttgart, unofficial dealings (Freiverkehr) in Berlin,

Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich

End of WpÜG announcement

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Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (General Standard), Stuttgart;

Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München