As already announced, the Board of Directors of SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH AG decided to
postpone the annual general meeting on the 2012 financial year to June. It has now set the
date for this AGM: Friday 28 June 2013, 10 a.m.
The Board has also taken note today of an application from Schmolz + Bickenbach
Beteiligungs GmbH, Düsseldorf, to convene an extraordinary general meeting, along with a
request to add an item to the agenda. This company, which owns more than CHF 1 million
worth of shares in SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH AG, is proposing that serving Members of the Board of Directors Hans-Peter Zehnder, Helmut Burmester and Alexander von Tippelskirch be voted off, and that four new candidates, Carl Michael Eichler, Oliver Thum, Heinz Schumacher and Roger Schaack, be voted on to the Board. The Board of Directors will examine the application and the request and give its response at the appropriate time.
About SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH
SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH was established in 1919 in Düsseldorf by Arthur Schmolz and Oswald Bickenbach and since 1937 the company bearing their names has been a synonym for tradition in steel. Since the acquisition of the former Swiss Steel AG in 2003, SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH has been listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (STLN). Today, the SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH Group is the world’s largest manufacturer, processor and
distributor of special-steel long products. The Group has a total of approximately 10 000 employees. SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH is the world’s Number 1 producer of stainless long steels as well as tool steels, and is one of the ten largest companies for alloy and high-alloy special and engineering steels.