Umicore

AGM Information • Apr 27, 2011

CP-2011-14-R 15:00 CET

Press release Regulated Information 27 April 2011

All agenda items approved at the Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meeting

On Tuesday 26 April 2011, Umicore held an Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meeting at its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Shareholders approved all agenda items. Details of the resolutions are available on Umicore's website.

http://www.umicore.com/investorrelations/en/shareInformation/shareholderMeetings/2011Apr/Resolutions_E N.pdf

The Ordinary General Meeting approved the payment of a gross dividend of ¤ 0.80 per new share (ISIN BE0003884047). Taking into account the gross interim dividend of ¤ 0.325 paid in October 2010, a balance gross amount of ¤ 0.475, representing a dividend of ¤ 0.35625 net of withholding tax, will be paid on 4 May 2011. This amount will increase to ¤ 0.40375 in case the new share is matched with the corresponding "VVPR strip".

The System Paying Agent designated for the payment of the 2010 dividend is:

KBC Bank Havenlaan / Avenue du Port, 2 1080 Brussels

Note : For each tenth of old shares (ISIN BE0003628039) still in circulation, the gross dividend per tenth of old share amounts to ¤ 0.2375, on presentation of coupon no 21. We remind you that since the split of the Umicore ordinary share on 29 February 2008, two tenths of each old share equal one new share.

Umicore Group Communications

Naamloze vennoolschap / Société Anonyme phone +32 2 227 71 11 VAT BE0401 574 852 Broekstraat 31 Rue du Marais fax +32 2 227 79 00 Company number 0401574852 B-1000 Brussels e-mail info@umicore.com Registered office Broekstraat 31 Rue du Marais Belgium web www.umicore.com B-1000 Brussels

For more information

Investor Relations:

Mr. Geoffroy RASKIN	+32 2 227 71 47	geoffroy.raskin@umicore.com
Mrs Evelien GOOVAERTS	+32 2 227 78 38		evelien.goovaerts@umicore.com
Director of Group Communications:
Mr. Tim WEEKES	+32 2 227 73 98	+32 473 98 49 14	tim.weekes@umicore.com

Umicore profile

Umicore is a global materials technology group. It focuses on application areas where its expertise in materials science, chemistry and metallurgy makes a real difference. Its activities are centred on four business areas: Catalysis, Energy Materials, Performance Materials and Recycling. Each business area is divided into marketfocused business units offering materials and solutions that are at the cutting edge of new technological developments and essential to everyday life.

Umicore generates the majority of its revenues and dedicates most of its R&D efforts to clean technologies, such as emission control catalysts, materials for rechargeable batteries and photovoltaics, fuel cells, and recycling. Umicore's overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on an ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils its mission: materials for a better life.

The Umicore Group has industrial operations on all continents and serves a global customer base; it generated a turnover of ¤ 9.7 billion (¤ 2.0 billion excluding metal) in 2010 and currently employs some 14,400 people.