EANS-News: Balda AG / Balda generates approx. EUR 150 million by sale of further shares in TPK Holding

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Subtitle: - Investment in Chinese Touchscreen-manufacturer further
drops to 0.8 per cent - Shareholders participate in this transaction
by receiving an extraordinary dividend - CEO Dominik Müser: “We
consequently execute our plan to fully dispose of all shares in TPK.”

Bad Oeynhausen (euro adhoc) - Bad Oeynhausen, July 1st, 2012 - Balda
AG, a specialist for high-quality plastic solutions, has sold through
its subsidiary Balda Investment Singapore Pte. Ltd. 15,998,365 shares
of TPK Holding Co., Ltd. and generated proceeds in the amount of
approx. EUR 150 million. The transaction was made via block-trade
organized by the investment firm UBS. The sale, which will not affect
the dividend rights of Balda in TPK Holding for the business year
2011, will be recognized in profit and loss of the short business
year from January 1st 2012 to June 30, 2012. Balda had already sold
20,000,000 TPK-shares in February 2012 and thereby generated proceeds
of approx. EUR 238 million.

By the latest transaction, the holding of Balda Investments Singapore
Pte. Ltd. in TPK Holding Co., Ltd. further reduces from 7.6 % to
approx. 0.8 %. The management board intends to sell these remaining
shares, that will be locked up for 90 days, at an optimized value and
to fully dispose of the non-strategic TPK-investment. It also
confirmed the aim to distribute a significant amount of the
transaction as extraordinary dividend to the shareholders of Balda
AG. As a consequence of the conducted sales of TPK-shares, the
company expects a significant profit on group-level for the short
business year 2012.

Dominik Müser, CEO of Balda AG: "By selling a further block of
TPK-shares we consequently execute our plan to fully dispose of all
shares in TPK. This does not only enable us to pay our shareholders a
highly attractive extraordinary dividend for the short business year
2012 but also extend our financial scope of actions for the ongoing
reorganization of the operative business of Balda."

Further inquiry note:
Frank Elsner
Frank Elsner Kommunikation für Unternehmen GmbH
Tel.: +49 - 54 04 - 91 92 0
Fax: +49 - 54 04 - 91 92 29
Mail: office@elsner-kommunikation.de

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company: Balda AG
Bergkirchener Str. 228
D-32549 Bad Oeynhausen
phone: +49 (0) 5734 9 22-0
FAX: +49 (0) 5734 922-2747
mail: info@balda.de
WWW: http://www.balda.de
sector: Semiconductors & active components
ISIN: DE0005215107
indexes: CDAX, Prime All Share
stockmarkets: free trade: Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart,
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