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VIPsight - July 2015

 

COMPANIES

 

 

Stada AGM: palpable hostility

The Supervisory Board of STADA Arzneimittel came under heavy fire during the AGM for the fees paid out to the executive board. The bone of contention was the new retribution package approved in March by the Supervisory Board, but not only that. The spark that set the haystack on fire was struck – and not for the first time – by the pharma group’s CEO Hartmut Retzlaff and his pension rights claims. His demands are little short of astronomical. STADA set up a pension fund for Retzlaff into which to date it has paid 32 million Euros, expenses included. Management attempted to sidestep the issue by deleting the agenda point approving management pay the day before it was due to be discussed, because of complaints by shareholder representatives and proxy voters that they had insufficient documentation to weigh the matter up. Christian Strenger was particularly critical; he had tabled private motions not only against discharging the executive and Supervisory Boards, but also demanding a special audit on the appropriateness of the emoluments paid to the executive board. The Corporate Governance expert points out that the dip in STADA’s performance compared to the targets set out is a result of the executive board’s having ignored the presence of risks that were obvious to all. The executive board continues to radiate great optimism instead of analysing the effects of the crisis in Ukraine and thus explore alternative avenues. The way things stand, shareholders are continuing to bear the burden of the losses incurred.

 

PNE: Gloves off and no holds barred

It’s a cliff-hanger – the shareholders’ general meeting of Prime Standard-listed wind-farm planner PNE Wind AG ended in such total chaos in mid-June that the police had to be called in. Thirty years of company records have to be sifted through to find a parallel, which then led to the resignation of the AVA Supervisory Board chair.

It all began with a squabble involving the major shareholders, the executive board and the Supervisory Board. In the lead-up to the AGM, Volker Friedrich, major shareholder and former head of WKN Deutschland, was critical of the earnings of the members of the executive and Supervisory Boards.

Despite the disappointingly poor results in company performance lately Supervisory Board fees have all but doubled over the last three years. Friedrichsen spotlights Supervisory Board chair Dieter Kuprian who pocketed a total of 341,000 Euros as head controller of PNE and its subsidiary WKN. Executive board chair, Martin Billhardt’s fee for 2014 was 1.36 million Euros. With 400 staff, the company generated a turnover of some 210 million Euros.

The executive board, on the other hand, accuses Friedrichsen of inflating the value of the WKN AG projects when he sold his company. This allegedly swung the price of the transaction in his favour. PNE is now suing for damages and demands Friedrichsen’s resignation from the Supervisory Board.

During the AGM, Friedrichsen allegedly called for an official warning to be served on three Supervisory Board members DieterKuprian, Peter Fischer and Reza Abhari, for not keeping the executive board sufficiently at arm’s length. The executive board, instead, is moving to have Friedrichsen and his allies Astrid Zielke and Peter Baron von le Fort removed.

At this juncture another major shareholder, Deutsche Balaton AG, applied for the mandates of the Supervisory Board’s members criticised by Friedrichsen to be revoked, and is requesting more information on new Supervisory Board candidates proposed by the executive board.

In the meantime, tempers were getting very frayed. Come late evening, investors were voting on motions and counter-motions surrounding official warnings to be served on members of the Supervisory Board. Shortly after midnight, however, and before results were declared and officialised, executive board chair Bilhardt declared the meeting over since it was no longer in the calendar day of the agenda and thus risked nullifying the resolutions passed. It is not altogether clear why the result had not come through before midnight but in order to safeguard the resolutions officialised, a number of shareholders called in the police.

The summons for a new shareholders’ meeting will soon be issued. Deutsche Balaton AG is calling for a rejection of the two boards’ application for discharge of liability, and for a warning to be served on all members of the Supervisory Board. Furthermore it is to press for a smaller, six-member Supervisory Board, each of whom will earn a fixed yearly fee of 25,000 Euros.

 

Greiffenberg: relief

After a particularly lacklustre beginning, industrial holding company Greiffenberger AG specialised in drive technology and pipeline renovation can now stop holding its breath. In this year’s first quarter, the General Standard-listed concern was expecting a turnover 8 percent down on last year. Over April and May, however, turnover saw a boost that brought first quarter sales close to 60 million Euros, compared to last year’s 63 million Euros. Furthermore, the company reports that its order portfolio has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few weeks and now tips the scales at 63 million Euros. Greiffenberger’s executive board is forecasting a resumption of growth this financial year and expects to achieve an Ebit and Ebitda comparable to 2013/2014.

 

 


 

 

The German Mittelstand

 

Germany full speed ahead with SME start-ups

The number of start ups in Germany in 2014 continued its upward trend and shows no sign of levelling off. The news appeared a few weeks ago in a report on new enterprises that KfW – Kreditanstaltfür Wiederaufbau (KfW) publishes every year at the end of May. A total of 915,000 start-ups were registered in 2014, an increase of 5.4 percent. SMEs offering full-time employment rose by 28 percent, and those run on a part-time basis as a second job dipped by 7 percent. In 2013 the average increase was 12 percent. By contrast to the most recent figures, the growth rate then was weighted by an increase in part-time SMEs.

Setting up a company as a second means of income is typical when the economic climate is difficult. The employment market follows suit to a sluggish economy and the prospects of getting a good job are slim. This is why the figures for 2014 are doubly encouraging; the percentage is higher and the actual start-ups are of better quality. By and large, starting a company as a primary source of income leads to the setup of a new organization and hiring staff – creating a job for oneself and others. Jörg Zeuner, head economist at KfW, is very satisfied with these numbers. An increase in the number of start-ups is good news for the German economy.

There is, however, one small point worth pondering. There are fewer new enterprises in commerce and industry and more in the professions. Perfectly logical in the light of an increased demand for services in education and training. Start-ups in commerce and industry, though, have a more immediate knock-on effect which is more far-reaching on the country’s economy, often leading to the birth of companies.

That said, the direction followed is the right one and the German economy is making the most of all this new SME activity, especially when the start-up is sufficient to make a living. It is with their innovating ideas that entrepreneurs throw down the gauntlet before bigger consolidated companies pushing them to work ever more efficiently and innovatively. And then, there’s always the chance that the small start-up evolves into a large successful company, Either way, it’s all to the favour of Germany dot com.

 

 


 

 

Buhlmann's Corner

 

 

Upside down?

 

The world has lost its head – so where did its brain get to?

We’re going so fast that even our way of speaking has got to be turbo-charged, so we think up slick neologisms like “grexit” or “C2C”. We’re so cool that we’re good with “a quick dusting-over with no loose ends” instead of a “well-thought-out way forward”. Something tells me this is where bubbles dot com flourish and I don’t mean just the Shanghai variety.

Microsoft invests billions so as to deduct double the amount against taxes 12 months later. Telefonica got round the conflict of interest issue by writing the by-laws (AGM June 12, 2015): “ ... the directors SHALL notify …any situation of … conflict with the interest of the company” and then, just to be doubly sure: “conflict of interest situations SHALL be included in the annual report“. But then what are you supposed to do if people don’t abide by the law?

They’ve invented a new breed of shareholder in Japan. Toyota spelled it out in its articles of association. Shareholders who ‘s ambition it is to obtain voting rights must purchase the shares at least 60 months prior to the record date and guard them jealously. In actual fact, though, that kind of shareholder already exists. In France, they didn’t feel like tackling the issue the complicated way by manoeuvring through amendments to articles of association, they just passed a national law, but here, the waiting time is only 36 months. Phitrust in Paris is fighting a lonely battle but it is gaining the upper hand helped out by the Ethos-Proxinvest group. These are in any case always isolated exceptions, just like the ISS public manifestation staged during the Toyota AGM. By and large, policy users are less creative. The national icon of the patriotic proxy advisor has been lost with IVOX swooning in the arms of fellow family-member Glass Lewis, a Californian competitor of Canadian ownership.

The trail blazed by German corporate governance has virtues in its own right. The retired leader of (or one of) the country’s most influential trade unions was elected to chairmanship of (or one of) the world’s biggest car manufacturers, Volkswagen and the story of how this man, one of the greatest living leaders of a German trade union came to be the highest paid Supervisory Board chairman in the country is in itself a lesson in dissembling commonplace preconceptions. It is he who decides on the composition of the executive board, and the strategic orientation they follow, under the vigilant eye of the two branches of the founding family, not to mention the state representative endowed with special powers. Macchiavelli is indeed the teacher of exemplary pupils in Wolfsburg.

But then again, what can you say when pharmaceutical distributer Stada distinguishes itself by shelling out 10 percent of its quarterly generic drug turnover for the retirement pension of one individual member of its executive board. Only one dissenting voice was heard, Christian Strenger came to within a hairsbreadth of carrying half of the AGM with her. Her motion calling for a special audit obtained 42% of the vote, short by a handful of the 40,000 shares the court needed to order the audit. Stada’s management did not consider it worthwhile to publish the result.

If you’re interested in the Stada speech or other video recordings, send me an email.

This could be called voting feet upwards... and it highlights just how important it is that we get our collective brain back on the job so we can start thinking about our sense of responsibility again.

 

 

 


 

 

ACTIONS CORNER

 

The allegations of improper conduct that has brought the three American banks Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo into disrepute are now being levelled at a number of non US banks. Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Credit Suisse, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS were all supposedly involved in selling and trading junk bonds in sub-prime American real-estate dealings. Each individual bank will almost certainly have to pay out amounts varying from several hundred million up to 2 or 3 billion Dollars. These nine international majors face charges of having deliberately given misleading information in their dealings based on Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS). stated as the mortgage worth of United States real estate. Deutsche Bank has had to pay out billions for its involvement in a long series of financial scandals.

 

During the June 16 hearing of the criminal proceedings against Deutsche Bank, the plaintiff sought to establish whether Jürgen Fitschen was an accomplice in covering up the testimony of the other accused in order to sabotage a claim for damages brought against the bank by Leo Kirch, an allegation that Fitschen denies. There are marked differences between the evidence given by the Co-CEO and that of the other accused as regards the executive board meeting of 29 January 2002. Fitschen stresses that the differences are of a merely immaterial nature. In a separate case, the former Co-CEO of the group gave evidence to the effect that he had understood that former CEO Ernst Breuer intended to approach Kirch to ascertain whether the former media mogul, who was also heavily indebted to Deutsche Bank, would be interested in dismantling his group, leaving it open to be sold off at a profit.

 

 


 

 

People

 

At the midpoint of the year, Brenntag’s executive board had gained three new members, bringing its complement to five. When William Fidler resigned at the expiry of his contract on June 30 the company presented three newcomers for election. On June 1, Supervisory Board chair Stefan Zuschke announced that the additional members were expected to provide the support needed to sustain group growth and development, enabling it to focus more on strategic development. Karsten Beckmann, Markus Klähn and Henri Nejade will serve alongside CEO Steven Holland and CFO Georg Müller shouldering regional responsibilities within the executive board.

 

Beckman, who has been with the company since 2002 served in its distribution sector and in managerial capacities. Latterly he was CEO of the company’s EMEA business (European and, Middle East Areas) and has been appointed executive board director for its EMEA business. Klähn joined the MDax-listed concern in 1994, and will now be executive board head for Brenntag North America, Nejade has been on board since 2008 and is CEO responsible for the Asia Pacific market.

 

Furthermore, the AGM of one of the world’s leading chemical distribution companies appointed Stefanie Berlinger a new member of the Supervisory Board. Berlinger is a partner in the Lilja & Co consultancy company specialised in IPOs and she will replace Stephen R. Clark who resigned from the board on AGM day. During his term as CEO , Clark ushered the company to stock exchange listing in 2010, and in 2011 moved directly to the Supervisory Board.

 

John Cryan moved from the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank to the position of its Operations Director, effective July. Up to May 2016, he will share the tasks with Jürgen Fitschen which will smooth the process. Anshu Jain resigned on June 30. After Fitschen leaves, Cryan as sole chairman will have the task of leading Deutsche Bank The decision was reached at an extraordinary meeting of the Supervisory Board on June 7 last.

 

Both Rufolf Humer and Christian Humer resigned from the Supervisory Board of Jenoptik effective June 30. The chair of the Supervisory Board and his son announced they had tendered their resignation after selling a large part of their shares to Jenoptik. The two Austrians represented the ECE group that has its headquarters in Vienna. The process of sourcing candidates for the two vacancies is under way.

 

The Supervisory Board of KUKA reflects the new shareholding quota. The manufacturer of automation technology for industrial robots held its AGM on June 10, when Herbert Lienhard, executive board chair of Voith was appointed to the Supervisory Board. The Württemberg-based plant manufacturer has owned approximately a quarter of the shares since 2014. Friedhelm Loh and Hans Ziegler were also elected to the Supervisory Board. With its 10% stake Loh’s Swoctem holding company is KUKA’s second biggest shareholder. Ziegler was on the executive board of Swisslog, a company that KUKA took over in 2014. Walter Bickel, Micael Alber Proeller and Guy P. Wyser-Pratte resigned from the Supervisory Board for reasons of age. Up till 2003, Wyser-Pratte possessed a 6.5 percent stake in IWKA, the company that became KUKA, and was in strong disaccord with the shift in strategy that he countered by concentrating on industrial robots. At that point, the American investor was instrumental in the fall of a number of members of the executive and Supervisory Boards. In May 2013 his stake fell below 3 percent and since then he has sold off even more shares.

 

On September 16 Markus Riess will join the executive board of Münchener Rückversicherungs Gesellschaft where he will be responsible for the direct insurance and third party insurance of asset manager Meag. The appointment was announced by Munich Re in May pending approval by the Supervisory Board.

 

In the management shakedown in Volkswagen, one of the best known protagonists, Christian Klingler, could lose his job. His sales area looks like coming under the decision by which the regional distributors round the world will have greater independence in deciding model policies Klingler blames the slump of the Volkswagen core brand on discord and market differences, and also on the upshot of the two fewer production days in May, which had a knock-on effect on sales.

 

Effective end June, Patrick Wohlhauser, resigned as COO of Evonik Industrie, a position he had held since 2014. Ralph Sven Kaufmann joined the executive board on July 1. Managing partner of Düsseldorf-based Scopein Management Consultants since 2001 Kaufmann worked for the chemical group in a consultancy capacity during the optimisation process.

 

In a note, Wacker Chemie has announced that with effect from November, its finances will be managed by Tobias Ohler. The present CFO Joachim Rauhut will leave the company on October 31, the natural expiry date of his contract. The company will also propose Christian Hartel as a new member of the executive board.. Currently, Hartel is in charge of Wacker Silicone under a three-year contract.

 

Heidelberger Druck: former bank executive becomes head controller

Siegfried Jaschinski has been appointed chair of SDax-listed Heidelberger Druck AG Supervisory Board with effect from June 2015. Former executive board chair of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Landesbank (LBBW) he succeeds Robert J. Koehler who passed away last May.

Jaschinski is a partner of Augur Capital AG and sits on its executive board. He has served on Heidelberg’s Supervisory Board since 2007. He has been a partner with Main First Bank AG. Jaschinski chaired the LBBW executive board from 2006 to 2009 but his resignation became inevitable; after incurring a series of losses totalling 2 thousand million Euros in the recent financial crunch, the bank was only saved by an injection of capital by the banks’ proprietors, namely the Land of Baden-Württemberg, the city of Stuttgart, and local savings banks.

 

Energiekontor: second in charge

Wind power specialist Energiekontor, has augmented its executive board. Günter Eschen is now second in command to the chair of the executive board Peter Szabo in deciding the fortunes of the General Standard-listed company. Eschen joined the company in 2011 and has guided its projects in Germany.

Energiekontor has been listed on the stock-exchange since 2000 and has produced almost 760 megawatts with 550 generating plants in 95 wind-farms.

 

Zooplus: executive board cutback

With effect from July, online retailer of household pet products, Zooplus, is cutting back on the number of its executive board members. COO Jürgen Vedie has resigned from the SDax-listed concern citing personal reasons. Since April 2014, Vedie had been in charge of purchases, logistics and supply chain management. He had been with Zooplus for 3 years. From July onwards logistics and supply chain management will be headed by CFO Cornelius Patt who will also be in charge of purchases.

 

Manz: semiconductors broaden the product range

TecDax-listed Manz AG, has strengthened its standing in the semiconductor market by teaming up with KLEO Halbleiter technik GmbH in June. Hi-tech product specialist Manz acquiered KLEO from the Zeiss group together with its patents and the right to safeguard its intellectual property in LDI (laser direct imaging) developed by KLEO. According to Manz this technology brings a saving of up to 75 percent of the image transfer process costs. No details about the value of the transaction have been disclosed but Manz AG did announce that the transaction was funded by an increase in share capital concluded last April. KLEO’s German premises and its staff of 20 have been incorporated seamlessly. Forecasts suggest that the benefits of the deal will begin to emerge as early as the current financial year2015.

 

Adesso: strong in Switzerland

IT provider Adesso AG acquired Swiss IT specialist BornInformatik AG in a transaction that was finalized in June but back-dated in validity to 1 January 2015. No details on the price of the transaction have been disclosed. General Standard-listed Adesso intends to fund the acquisition with five-, seven- and ten-year loans. The takeover was managed by the group’s Swiss company which will soon be absorbed by BornInformatik. With its staff of 124, Born has a track record of expertise in software development and system integration, which will enhance Adesso’s market status, particularly in the areas of Switzerland that neighbour on Germany. Born’s yearly turnover according to Adesso is some 28 million Swiss francs (approximately 27 million Euros). Company founder and current chair of the executive board André Born will join the executive board of Adesso Schweiz AG. From now on, Born’s COO and co-owner, Daniel Urzyler’s duties will include the operative business of Adesso Schweiz.

 

Tomorrow Focus: premium on-line agency put up for sale

Tomorrow Focus AG is selling its online marriage bureau portal Elitepartner to investment company Oakley Capital Private Equity. Prime Standard-listed EliteMedinetGmbH, parent company of Elitepartner is hoping for a revenue in excess of 23 million Euros with the sale – as soon as the transaction becomes official a first instalment of 14.8 million Euros will be paid. The remaining 22 million Euros will be given to the investment company in the form of a two-year loan. When 7.2 million Euros of this are duly repaid, 1.3 million Euros will added to the remainder in the form of interest. The transaction is still awaiting approval by the monopolies commission.

Tomorrow Focus is increasingly oriented towards its core digital business, shifting it towards the travel agency field. Elitepartner is one of German-speaking Europe’s most important marriage bureaus. Tomorrow Focus states that EliteMedianet with its staff of 80 generated 28 million Euros turnover in 2014 without incurring indebtedness. 

 

 


 

 

Campus

 

How a company’s success is reflected in share-based salaries

According to a study launched by the HKP group there is a strong link between how well a company performs in its chosen line of business and pegging its salaries to the trend of its shares on the stock-exchange. This is particularly so when the highest possible number of staff members receive part of their long-term salary linked to the orientation of the share price on the stock exchange. This idea, extended to as many staff members as possible, tends to foster a share-oriented culture within the group and people begin to adopt an entrepreneurial approach. Many companies worldwide are moving towards this kind of approach and culture. Initiated n th USA, the trend is taking root in a multitude of other economic climates, Europe especially, and the experience accumulated with the so-called long-term incentive programmes is slowly becoming a guide for the development of the practice in a global market.

 

 

 

 


 

 

Capital News

 

Deutsche Annington Immobilen has announced its intention of funding its takeover of Suddetusche Wohnen (Südewo) worth 1.9 billion Euros, by increasing share capital by 107.5 million Euros to 466 million Euros. The takeover was finalised at the beginning of July. The ratio at purchase was ten to three. The purchase price of the 107,538,606 shares is 20.90 Euros, accruing a revenue of 2.25 billion Euros. The amount left over after Südewo will be used to finance loans with collateral and pay transaction expenses. The intention of Deutsche Annington is to consolidate its status as the primary residential real-estate concern in Germany obtaining some 20,000 apartments from investments close to its competitor Patrizia Immobilien. The low interest rates and the excellent state of the economy make investing in German real estate a highly attractive proposition for both German and foreign investors.

 

LEG Immobilien has orchestrated an increase in share capital as a means of financing the fast-track purchase of a real-estate portfolio. On June 23,the Düsseldorf-based real-estate group was successful in placing 1,196,344 shares for a total revenue of 73.6 million Euros. The stock was sold for 61.54 Euros, approximately 6 percent less than the closing price of Xetra and will have the right to a dividend for the 2015 financial year. This increase in share capital tends to water down current participation by about 2 percent. The revenue has been earmarked for the partial funding of a portfolio containing 3,500 homes. LEG has announced that it has agreed on a framework agreement for the purchase of 225 million Euros.

 

KTG Agrar: bolstering equity capital

Agriculture group KT Agrar AG recently raised some 7 million Euros by increasing share capital. The Entry Standard-listed company increased its share capital by placing 506.400 new bearer shares excluding the right to option at the issue price of 14.33 Euros each. The number of shares has therefore risen from 6,243,600 to 6,750,000. In so doing, the group aims to increase its quota of equity capital from 18 to more than 20 percent. With the increase in profits of last financial year – hard on the heels of the 0.7 million Euro loss KTG made a profit of some 6.4 million Euros in 2014 – the company has already taken the first step. Depending on how the AGM votes, KTG will distribute a higher dividend for the fifth time running, this year up by 0.25 Euros per share.

 

Bio-Gate: funding growth

By means of an increase in share capital with no right to option, Medical technology specialist Bio-Gate AG, has earned a shot in the arm of 0.6 million Euros . In the course of the private placement, the hitherto Entry Standard-listed concern supplied 430,347 fresh shares at the price of 1.40 Euros each to anchor shareholders. The capital measure augmented the company’s share capital by 430,367 Euros to approximately 4.7 million Euros. This cash has been earmarked to fund growth this current year. Bio-Gate’s microsilver technology is able to provide a microbe-free protection to both materials and surfaces. The company is currently quoted in the unofficial Frankfurt bourse.

 

Cewe: reliable earnings

The dividend to be paid out by Nella CeweStiftung& Co. KGaA has risen again for the sixth time in a row. According to the on-line press release of the Prime Standard-listed concern, the dividend amount has risen by 5 percent to 1.55 Euros per share. Furthermore, the company has announced that it possesses a solid base equity capital and it intends pursuing increasing profits. Of particular profitability is the photo-finish business – photographic products with ad hoc page layout such as photo books, calendars and posters. The group is forecasting a turnover for 2015 of between 515 and 535 million Euros and an operational profit of between 32 and 38 million Euros. Last year’s turnover was some 524 million Euros with an Ebit of approximately 33 million Euros.

 

 


 

 

Director's Dealings

 

Person Function Buy / Sell Total value in Euro Number of shares Datum
Diederich, Prof. Dr. Francois SB B 28.184 338 04.06.2015
Kirsten, Prof. Dr. A. Stefan MB B 9.521 7.647 22.06.2015
Ulbrich, Christian SB B 48.072 2.000 19.06.2015
Ulbrich, Jaqueline   B 12.005 500 19.06.2015
Ulbrich, Werner   B 9.608 400 19.06.2015
Buch, Rolf MB-Head B 298.536 12.000 17.06.2015
Helmes, Dr. Marion   B 997.268 39.500 17.06.2015
Faber, Dr. Joachim SB-Head B 139.836 1.960 09.06.2015
Armbrust, Annette   B 84.600 2.000 05.06.2015
Armbrust, Thomas SB B 41.400 1.000 16.06.2015
Armbrust, Thomas SB B 8.350 200 12.06.2015
Armbrust, Thomas SB B 42.175 1.000 05.06.2015
Armbrust, Thomas SB B 41.900 1.000 08.06.2015
AROSA Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft m.b.H.   S 193.434.600 4.280.000 28.05.2015
Böge, Claus-Matthias MB-Head B 41.700 1.000 08.06.2015
Bravo-Alpha Beteiligungs G.m.b.H   S 57.397.650 1.270.000 28.05.2015
Cattarius-Armbrust, Gabriele   B 41.400 1.000 16.06.2015
Cattarius-Armbrust, Gabriele   B 8.348 200 12.06.2015
Cattarius-Armbrust, Gabriele   B 42.175 1.000 05.06.2015
Cattarius-Armbrust, Gabriele   B 41.900 1.000 08.06.2015
Charlie-Fox Beteiligungs G.m.b.H.   S 60.109.350 1.330.000 28.05.2015
DESAG Vermögensverwaltung G.m.b.H.   B 365.853.525 8.095.000 28.05.2015
PANTA Dreiundsechzigste Grundstücksgesellschaft m.b.H.   S 54.911.925 1.215.000 28.05.2015
Müller, Dr. Michael   B 121.561 7.830 12.06.2015
van Damme, Niek Jan MB S 1.091.547 73.816 16.06.2015
Kremer, Dr. Thomas MB B 202.748 12.950 04.06.2015
Nemat, Claudia MB B 255.734 16.500 08.06.2015
Illek, Dr. Christian P. MB B 627.347 39.500 29.05.2015
Wittan, Lars MB B 15.996 744 03.06.2015
Zahn, Michael MB B 26.101 1.214 03.06.2015
ASSK Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG   B 124.743 5.802 03.06.2015
Zahn, August Maximilian   B 44.450 2.000 02.06.2015
Zahn, Michael MB-Head B 177.600 8.000 03.06.2015
Zahn, Rebecca   B 44.460 2.000 02.06.2015
Binz, Prof.Dr. Mark SB-Head B 18.285 300 12.06.2015
Müller, Michael MB B 22.684 387 02.06.2015
Brosnan, Michael MB Exercise an Option 6.005.963 77.493 01.06.2015
Fuste, Roberto MB Exercise an Option 5.822.080 74.800 03.06.2015
Roggemann, Gerhard SB B 281.100 5.000 05.06.2015
Lippert, Klaus SB B 2.179 100 12.06.2015
N & A Hardieck GmbH & Co. KG   B 1.027.650 50.000 10.06.2015
R & U Weber GmbH & Co. KG   B 4.266.000 200.000 12.06.2015
Weber, Ralf MB-Head B 296.400 15.000 15.06.2015
Weber, Ralf MB-Head B 4.266.000 200.000 12.06.2015
Henkel, Christoph   B/S 0 100.000 23.06.2015
Mittal, Arunjai MB S 257.886 21.598 02.06.2015
Scharpe, Dr. Jochen SB B 132.700 2.000 03.06.2015
Scharpe, Dr. Jochen SB B 132.880 2.000 03.06.2015
Büchele, Dr. Wolfgang MB-Head B 24.900 150 16.06.2015
Blades, Thomas MB B 1.518 9 05.06.2015
Lange, Bernd MB S 393.440 50.000 11.06.2015
Hostein, Jens MB S 221.910 3.381 04.06.2015
Hostein, Jens MB S 354.395 5.381 03.06.2015
Hostein, Jens MB S 352.673 5.370 02.06.2015
Schottelius, Dr. Arndt MB S 354.760 5.370 02.06.2015
Schottelius, Dr. Arndt MB S 352.667 5.370 03.06.2015
Schottelius, Dr. Arndt MB S 356.457 5.392 03.06.2015
Sproll, Dr. Marlies MB S 175.650 2.667 03.06.2015
Sproll, Dr. Marlies MB S 175.047 2.667 04.06.2015
Sproll, Dr. Marlies MB S 175.088 2.666 02.06.2015
Dautl, Thomas SB B 27.744 330 08.06.2015
Albo, Giuseppina MB B 59.525 323 09.06.2015
Albo, Giuseppina MB B 49.975 276 11.06.2015
Albo, Giuseppina MB B 39.560 217 17.06.2015
Albo, Giuseppina MB B 8.400 52 15.06.2015
Albo, Giuseppina MB B 8.304 50 01.06.2015
Arnoldussen, Dr. Ludger MB B 78.019 483 15.06.2015
Arnoldussen, Dr. Ludger MB B 77.894 469 01.06.2015
Blunck, Dr. Thomas MB B 77.049 477 15.06.2015
Blunck, Dr. Thomas MB S 415.262 2.529 08.06.2015
Blunck, Dr. Thomas MB B 76.898 463 01.06.2015
Höpke, Dr. Doris MB B 20.676 128 15.06.2015
Höpke, Dr. Doris MB B 20.595 124 01.06.2015
Jeworrek, Dr. Torsten MB B 130.516 808 15.06.2015
Jeworrek, Dr. Torsten MB B 130.378 785 01.06.2015
Röder, Dr. Peter MB B 85.449 529 15.06.2015
Röder, Dr. Peter MB B 85.534 515 01.06.2015
Schneider, Dr. Jörg MB B 116.301 720 15.06.2015
Schneider, Dr. Jörg MB B 116.260 700 01.06.2015
von Bomhard, Dr. Nikolaus MB-Head B 160.398 993 15.06.2015
von Bomhard, Dr. Nikolaus MB-Head B 159.941 963 01.06.2015
Wenning, Dr. Joachim MB B 82.218 509 15.06.2015
Wenning, Dr. Joachim MB B 82.047 494 01.06.2015
Aidem, Lawrence SB B 10.958 222 27.05.2015
Hahn, Andreas SB B 688 12 28.05.2015
Hahn, Andreas SB S 6.742 100 02.06.2015
van Skyhawk, Ingrid   B 631 11 28.05.2015
van Skyhawk, Ingrid   S 5.056 75 02.06.2015
Bertram, Dr. Heinz-Jürgen MB-Head B 56.845 1.000 22.06.2015
Thiel, Martin MB B 21.385 2.000 22.06.2015
Vaagt, Harboe MB B 53.680 5.000 22.06.2015
Hoffmann, Robert Nikolaus MB S 3.883.497 91.660 03.06.2015
MB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH   B 3.595.000 100.000 10.06.2015
MB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH   B 1.454.800 40.000 05.06.2015
MB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH   B 2.254.560 60.000 03.06.2015
MB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH   B 1.884.000 50.000 02.06.2015
Pape, Jens MB S 589.088 4.165 18.06.2015
Pape, Jens MB S 919.561 6.374 15.06.2015
Pape, Jens MB S 702.779 4.947 16.06.2015
Pape, Jens MB S 338.731 2.328 17.06.2015
Pape, Jens MB S 324.119 2.061 08.06.2015
Pape, Jens MB S 396.286 2.594 10.06.2015
Pape, Jens MB S 309.329 2.000 11.06.2015
Pape, Jens MB S 326.936 2.150 12.06.2015
Pape, Jens MB S 257.646 1.679 09.06.2015

 

 


 

 

VIPsight Shareholders

in June 2015

 

VIPsight Shareholder ID MDAX & SDAX <click here>

 

VIPsight Shareholder ID: …….. Holdings in per cent
Companies Own-shares Notifiable shareholders Share Investment companies (KAGs) making disclosures*  
        Total Change Biggest KAG Share
               
DAX              
               
adidas AG   BlackRock, Inc. 3,39 St 27,22 -0,75 Capital Research and Management Company 3,53
    O. Mason Hawkins 3,06 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 2,88 St        
    Thornburg Investment Management Inc. 2,73 St        
    UBS AG 1,83 St        
    Vorstand & Aufsichtsrat 1 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,38 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,16 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,15 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,03 St        
               
Allianz SE 0,60 (St) BlackRock, Inc. 6,11 St 26,73 -0,22 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 2,17
    NEU Societe Generale S.A. 5,19 St        
    Harris Associates L.P. 3,05 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 2,84 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,66 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,21 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,04 St        
               
BASF SE   BlackRock, Inc. 6,45 St 18,65 -0,06 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 2,18
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,32 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 2,26 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,78 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,35 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,11 St        
               
Bayer AG   BlackRock, Inc. 6,42 St 30,64 -0,27 Capital Research and Management Company 5,13
    NEU The Capital Group Companies Inc. 4,96 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 3 St        
    Bayer-Mitarbeiter 1 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,31 St        
               
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG   AQTON SE 17,4 St 16,04 -0,01 Dodge & Cox Funds 1,51
    Johanna Quandt 16,7 St        
    Susanne Klatten Beteiligungs GmbH 12,6 St        
    BlackRock 3,15 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0 St        
               
Beiersdorf AG 9,99 (St) maxingvest ag 50,69 St 8,47 -0,08 Artisan Partners Funds, Inc. 1,06
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,68 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,01 St        
               
Commerzbank AG   Bundesrepublik Deutschland 15,6 St 17,22 0,06 Capital Research and Management Company 4,89
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,05 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 4,54 St        
    EuroPacific Growth Fund 2,75 St        
               
Continental AG   Schaeffler Group 46 St 20,78 0,12 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,18
    BlackRock, Inc. 3,3 St        
    The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc 0,02 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0 St        
               
Daimler AG   Kuwait Investment Authority 6,8 St 21,15 -0,07 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 2,02
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,3 St        
    Renault S. A. 3,1 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,05 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,3 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 1,11 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,22 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,11 St        
               
Deutsche Bank AG 0,02 (St) BlackRock, Inc. 6,13 St 16,21 0,06 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 2,30
    Paramount Services Holdings Ltd. 5,83 St        
    LYXOR INTERNATIONAL ASSET MANAGEMENT S.A.S. 2,04 St        
    UBS AG 1,77 St        
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0,07 St        
    Anshuman Jain 0,06 St        
    Henry Ritchotte 0,02 St        
    Jürgen Fitschen 0,02 St        
    Rainer Neske 0,01 St        
    Dr. Stephan Leithner 0,01 St        
               
Deutsche Börse AG 4,57 (St) BlackRock, Inc. 5,26 St 31,24 -0,60 Capital Research and Management Company 3,33
    Invesco Ltd. 5,02 St        
    Baillie Gifford & Co. 3 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 2,98 St        
    Dodge & Cox 2,96 St        
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 2,9 St        
    UBS AG 2,52 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,24 St        
               
Deutsche Lufthansa AG   Templeton Global Advisors Limited 5 St 26,79 0,63 Franklin Templeton Investments 4,84
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,96 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 2,95 St        
    UBS AG 2,89 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,12 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,35 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,2 St        
               
Deutsche Post AG 0,12 (St) KfW - Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau 20,96 St 19,58 -0,28 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 1,76
    BlackRock, Inc. 6,07 St        
               
Deutsche Telekom AG 0,41 (St) KfW - Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau 17,44 St 13,85 -0,14 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 1,50
    Bundesrepublik Deutschland 14,26 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,97 St        
               
E.ON SE 2,43 (St) BlackRock, Inc. 5,86 St 16,93 -0,14 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 2,34
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,96 St        
               
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA 2,42 (St) Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA 30,27 St 16,81 0,57 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 1,32
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,09 St        
    Thornburg Investment Management Inc. 2,95 St        
    UBS AG 2,65 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,01 St        
               
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA   Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung 26,7 St 20,22 0,29 Harbor Fund 2,35
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,97 St        
    Allianz SE 3,83 St        
    Henderson Group plc 3,01 St        
               
HeidelbergCement AG   Ludwig Merckle 25,81 St 24,75 0,56 First Eagle Funds (division of ASB Securities LLC) 5,71
    Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings, Inc. 5,11 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,1 St        
    Morgan Stanley 2,98 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0 St        
               
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA 2,07 (Vz) Familie Henkel 60,84 St 22,50 -0,34 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,43
               
Infineon Technologies AG   Dodge & Cox 9,46 St 36,98 -0,05 Dodge & Cox Funds 5,88
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 7,85 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,15 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 5,01 St        
    Kuwait 3,25 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 3 St        
    UBS AG 2,4 St        
               
K+S AG   BlackRock, Inc. 4,12 St 16,43 0,23 Capital Research and Management Company 3,66
    Meritus Trust Company Limited 2,97 St        
    EuroPacific Growth Fund 2,49 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,92 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,83 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 0,45 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,14 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,05 St        
               
LANXESS AG   Dodge & Cox 5,09 St 28,89 3,78 Dodge & Cox Funds 4,96
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,07 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 3,16 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,92 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,91 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 1,28 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,92 St        
               
Linde AG 0,05 (St) Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 6,51 St 32,34 -0,20 Capital Research and Management Company 2,77
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,27 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 4,66 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 2,99 St        
    Commerzbank AG 2,94 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,75 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,05 St        
               
MERCK KGaA   BlackRock, Inc. 5,83 St 35,61 -0,67 Newton Fund Managers Ltd. 5,52
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 5,76 St        
    Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC 4,99 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 1,41 St        
    UBS AG 1,26 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,12 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,09 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,05 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,01 St        
               
Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG   Warren E. Buffett 12 St 21,33 -0,28 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 2,09
    BlackRock, Inc. 6,25 St        
    People's Bank of China / State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) 3,22 St        
    NEU Allianz Global Investors GmbH 3 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,64 St        
    NEU Citigroup Inc. 1,27 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,95 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,28 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,06 St        
               
RWE AG   RWEB GmbH 16,15 St 15,86 -0,12 Alken AM LLP (UK) 2,09
    Privataktionäre 13 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,36 St        
    MIPL Group Limited 3,02 St        
    Alken Luxembourg S.A. 2,97 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,62 St        
    Belegschaftsaktionäre 1 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,36 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,01 St        
               
SAP SE 2,71 (St) Prof. Hasso Plattner 8,65 St 12,98 -0,09 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 1,58
    Erbengemeinschaft nach Dr. h.c. Klaus Tschira 7,84 St        
    Dr. Dietmar Hopp 5,31 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,46 St        
    Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas 3,95 St        
    Morgan Stanley 1,21 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,79 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 0,12 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,1 St        
               
Siemens AG 5,19 (St) Siemens (Familie) 6 St 16,21 -0,20 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 1,95
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,12 St        
    DIC Company Limited 3,04 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,44 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,14 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,19 St        
    Vorstand 0,03 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,02 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,01 St        
               
ThyssenKrupp AG   Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung 23,03 St 10,70 -0,25 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 1,37
    Cevian Capital II GP Limited 15,08 St        
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 4,97 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,2 St        
               
VOLKSWAGEN AG   Porsche Automobil Holding SE 50,73 St 21,14 0,75 Capital Research and Management Company 3,52
    Land Niedersachsen 20 St        
    Katar Holding 17 St        
               
TecDAX              
               
ADVA Optical Networking SE   EGORA Holding GmbH 17,92 St 13,06 0,03 DeAWM Investment GmbH 7,81
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 7,81 St        
    DNB Asset Management AS 5,43 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,98 St        
    NN Investment Partners Belgium S.A. 2,96 St        
    FMR LLC 2,93 St        
    Brian L. Protiva 0,83 St        
    Eric Protiva 0,66 St        
    Anthony T. Maher 0,02 St        
               
AIXTRON SE 0,98 (St) Camma B.V. 6,79 St 33,83 0,60 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 7,75
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 6,04 St        
    UBS Group AG 5,38 St        
    Generation Investment Management LLP 5,16 St        
    Baillie Gifford & Co. 4,62 St        
    Vanguard Group Inc. 3 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,96 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,11 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,04 St        
               
Bechtle AG   Karin Schick 35,02 St 27,48 -0,73 Flossbach von Storch AG 9,61
    Flossbach von Storch Invest S.A. 10,07 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 4,99 St        
    LOYS Sivac 3,34 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,99 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 2,86 St        
    Jürgen Schäfer 0,02 St        
               
CANCOM SE   Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 9,93 St 24,75 0,56 Threadneedle Asset Management Limited 3,61
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 5,04 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Luxembourg S.A. 4,78 St        
    Denver Investment Advisors LLC 3 St        
    Klaus Weinmann 0,89 St        
    Source Markets plc 0,8 St        
    Dominik Eberle 0,07 St        
               
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG   Carl Zeiss AG 65,05 St 10,81 0,00 Oddo Asset Management 2,14
    Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company 3,01 St        
    ODDO ET CIE 2,99 St        
               
CompuGROUP Medical AG 6,57 (St) Frank Gotthardt 33,65 St 18,38 0,22 Fidelity Managem.& Research Co. 5,41
    Dr. Daniel Gotthardt 6,71 St        
    Dr. Brigitte Gotthardt 6,35 St        
    Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) 5,66 St        
    FMR LLC 5,09 St        
    Dr. Reinhard Koop 3,86 St        
    Armor Advisors, LLC 3 St        
    OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 2,96 St        
    Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company 2,95 St        
               
Dialog Semiconductor PLC 3,96 (St) The Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV 12,42 St 28,67 -0,35 CI Investments Inc. 4,01
    Citigroup Global Markets 9,44 St        
    State Street 5,92 St        
    Robert Citrone 4,68 St        
    Clearstream Banking S.A. 4,25 St        
    Chase Nominees Ltd 4,1 St        
    Nortrust Nominees Limited 3,79 St        
    BNP Paribas Securities Services 3,69 St        
    Waddell and Reed Financial Inc. 3,5 St        
    CACEIS Bank Deutschland 3,21 St        
    Kleinwort Benson (Jersey) Trustees Limited as Trustee of the Dialog Semiconductor plc Employee Benefit Trust 2,98 St        
    RBC Investor Services Trust 2,9 St        
    Black Creek Investment Management Inc. 2,68 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 2,51 St        
               
Drillisch AG   Ralph Dommermuth 20,7 St 27,35 0,40 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 5,25
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5,15 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 4,58 St        
    Alken Luxembourg S.A. 3,25 St        
    FMR LLC 2,93 St        
    Marc Brucherseifer 2,03 St        
    Mellon Capital Management Corporation 1,77 St        
    Paschalis Choulidis 0,8 St        
    Vlasios Choulidis 0,75 St        
    Johann Weindl 0,02 St        
    Dr. Horst Lennertz 0,01 St        
               
Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA   Familie Dräger 71,42 St 31,59 -1,46 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 2,88
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,27 St        
    SICAV Objectif Small Caps Euro 3,19 St        
    Lazard Frères Gestion S.A.S. 3,04 St        
    Oddo Asset Management 2,97 St        
    Dräger Stiftung 0,12 St        
               
Evotec AG   Roland Oetker 13,23 St 9,36 0,30 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,42
    BVF Inc. 12,57 St        
    TVM V Life Science Management GmbH & Co. KG 5,37 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 3 St        
    Dr. Werner Lanthaler 0,4 St        
    Dr. Mario Polywka 0,05 St        
    Mary C. Tanner 0,05 St        
    Dr. Walter Wenninger 0,03 St        
    Dr. Cord Dohrmann 0,03 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0 St        
               
freenet AG   Allianz Global Investors GmbH 5,16 St 39,66 -0,06 DeAWM Investment GmbH 6,06
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,65 St        
    NEU The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,7 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 3,08 St        
    J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc 2,98 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,82 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,65 St        
    Flossbach von Storch SICAV 2,63 St        
               
GFT Technologies AG   Ulrich Dietz 28,08 St 9,63 1,79 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 1,68
    Maria Dietz 9,68 St        
    Dr. Markus Kerber 4,99 St        
    Baden-Württembergische Versorgungsanstalt für Ärzte, Zahnärzte und Tierärzte 2,99 St        
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,99 St        
    Fidelity Funds SICAV 2,91 St        
    Dr. Jochen Ruetz 0,38 St        
    Marika Lulay 0,14 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,13 St        
    Andreas Bernhardt 0,1 St        
               
JENOPTIK AG   Thüringer Industriebeteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG 11 St 27,90 0,02 DeAWM Investment GmbH 8,02
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 5,2 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,55 St        
    NEU Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 3,01 St        
    Oddo Asset Management 2,97 St        
    Source Markets plc 0,25 St        
               
LPKF Laser & Electronics AG   Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3,32 St 20,19 -0,63 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 3,32
    Lazard Frères Gestion S.A.S. 3,24 St        
    Rock Point Advisors LLC 3,04 St        
    Andrew Gibbs 3,01 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 2,92 St        
    WA Holdings, Inc. 2,89 St        
    Henderson Global Investors Limited 2,72 St        
    Bernd Hackmann 0,56 St        
    Dr. Ingo Bretthauer 0,25 St        
    Bernd Lange 0,11 St        
    Kai Bentz 0,07 St        
    Dr. Heino Büsching 0,04 St        
    Prof. Dr. Erich Barke 0,01 St        
               
Manz AG   Dieter Manz 35,2 St 12,15 0,78 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 1,18
    Ulrike Manz 3,8 St        
    Otto Angerhofer 3,04 St        
    AXA S.A. 2,65 St        
    ETHENEA Independent Investment S.A. 2,4 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 2,1 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,14 St        
               
MorphoSys AG 2,04 (St) Flossbach von Storch Invest S.A. 5,78 St 28,90 1,29 OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 4,39
    Novartis Pharma AG 5,56 St        
    OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 4,91 St        
    Templeton Global Advisors Limited 3,1 St        
    AVIVA plc 3,01 St        
    Celgene Alpine Investment Co., LLC 3,01 St        
    Credit Suisse Fund Management S.A 2,95 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,95 St        
    Perceptive Life Sciences Master Fund, Ltd. 2,94 St        
    Invesco Advisers, Inc. 2,65 St        
    Dr. Simon Moroney 1,71 St        
    Dr. Marlies Sproll 0,11 St        
    Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,08 St        
               
Nemetschek AG   Prof. Georg Nemetschek 53,57 St 20,31 3,34 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 2,93
    NEU Capital Research and Management Company 3,12 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 3,05 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,95 St        
    Allianz SE 0,96 St        
               
Nordex SE   SKion/momentum capital/Klatten 22,85 St 15,07 -0,25 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,89
    JPMorgan Chase Bank 3,22 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 3,06 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,95 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,13 St        
    Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart 0,01 St        
    UniCredit Bank AG 0,01 St        
               
Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG   Privataktionäre 4,9 St 44,68 0,27 Parvest Investment Management Company S.A. 3,45
    Hakuto - Handelsvertretung 3,48 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3,08 St        
    NEU Credit Suisse Group AG 2,98 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 2,96 St        
    Montanaro Asset Management Ltd 2,94 St        
    Capital Research and Management Company 2,68 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,53 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 2,28 St        
    Henderson Global Investors Limited 1,97 St        
    Mitglieder von Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,06 St        
               
QIAGEN N.V. 3,21 (St) PRIMECAP Management Company 9,21 St 19,79 0,24 Franklin Templeton Investments 2,99
    BlackRock, Inc. 7,31 St        
    Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC 5,75 St        
    Platinum Investment Management Limited 4,17 St        
    Manning & Napier Advisors, LLC 2,89 St        
    Generation Investment Management LLP 2,88 St        
    Baillie Gifford & Co. 2,43 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,2 St        
    Harding Loevner LLC 2,18 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,07 St        
    Amundi Group 2,03 St        
    Dr. Metin Colpan 1,52 St        
    Peer M. Schatz 0,82 St        
    Prof. Dr. Detlev H. Riesner 0,61 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 0,27 St        
               
QSC AG   Gerd Eickers 12,55 St 22,79 -0,02 Kempen Capital Management NV 10,17
    Dr. Bernd Schlobohm 12,5 St        
    J O Hambro Capital Management Limited 5,19 St        
    Kempen European Participations N.V. 5,09 St        
    Credit Suisse Fund Management S.A 2,98 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,96 St        
    Jürgen Hermann 0,27 St        
    Dr. Frank Zurlino 0,01 St        
    Barbara Stolz 0,01 St        
               
RIB Software AG 2,89 (St) Thomas Wolf 20,08 St 27,79 -0,45 Capital Research and Management Company 7,31
    Capital Group Companies Inc. 6,4 St        
    Hans-Joachim Sander 4,58 St        
    SAP AG 4,28 St        
    Lagoda Investment Management LLC 3,19 St        
    Schroders Investment Management 3 St        
    Henderson Global Investors Limited 2,97 St        
    Invesco Ltd. 2,95 St        
    FIL Investments International 2,88 St        
    UBS Global Asset Management GmbH 1,95 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,42 St        
    Michael Sauer 0,9 St        
               
Sartorius AG 8,89 (St) Erbengemeinschaft nach Horst Sartorius 50,1 St 25,80 0,12 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 2,65
  8,98 (Vz) Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. 30,01 St        
    Familienbesitz 5 St        
               
SMA Solar Technology AG   Pool SMA Solar Technology AG 25,2 St 7,50 -0,10 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 2,51
    Danfoss A/S 20 St        
    Peter Drews 4,76 St        
    Rainer Wettlaufer 4,76 St        
    Irene Cramer 4,75 St        
    Prof. Dr. Werner Kleinkauf 4,39 St        
               
Software AG 0,10 (St) Software AG Stiftung 31,59 St 21,39 0,06 Shareholder Value Management AG 2,31
    FMR LLC 3,8 St        
    Remo Stoffel 3,66 St        
    Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC 3,29 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 3,26 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 3,22 St        
    Deka Investment GmbH 3,16 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,15 St        
    Shareholder Value Beteiligungen AG 2,3 St        
               
STRATEC Biomedical AG 0,10 (St) Herdor GmbH & Co. KG 9,66 St 24,77 0,80 Threadneedle Asset Management Limited 4,45
    Ralf Leistner 9,55 St        
    Bettina Siegle 9,5 St        
    Tanja van Dinter 9,35 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 4,99 St        
    Montanaro Asset Management Ltd 4,77 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 3,06 St        
    Oppenheimer International Small Company Fund 3 St        
    Financière de l'Echiquier 2,96 St        
    Hermann Leistner 0,39 St        
    Doris Leistner 0,34 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 0,33 St        
               
Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG   Telefónica Germany Holdings Limited 62,1 St 3,05 0,04 T. Rowe Price Investment Services Inc. 0,70
    Citigroup Inc. 0,42 St        
    UBS AG 0,21 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 0,02 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0 St        
    HSBC Holdings plc 0 St        
               
United Internet AG 0,60 (St) Ralph Dommermuth 40 St 15,45 -0,13 OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 2,49
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,94 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 2,84 St        
    Norbert Lang 0,22 St        
    Michael Scheeren 0,15 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,02 St        
               
Wirecard AG   Jupiter Asset Management Limited 6,27 St 44,58 0,04 Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Limited 5,13
    MB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH 6,09 St        
    Alken Luxembourg S.A. 4,94 St        
    T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. 3,15 St        
    Standard Life Investments Limited 3,03 St        
    Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company 2,97 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 2,94 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,39 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 2,07 St        
               
XING AG 0,00 (St) Burda Digital GmbH 50,4 St 27,53 0,05 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 6,04
    Oppenheimer International Small Company Fund 5,07 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 5 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,97 St        
    Schroder Investment Management North America Ltd 4,96 St        
    Schroders plc 2,99 St        
               

 

 


 

 

VIPsight luglio 2015

 

COMPANIES

 

The German Mittelstand

 

Buhlmann's Corner

 

ACTIONS CORNER

 

People

 

Campus

 

Capital News

 

 

 

VIPsight - June 2015

 

COMPANIES

 

MBB: small spawns success

Provisional numbers announced by Prime Standard-listed holding company MBB SE point to an increase in first quarter turnover of some 60 million Euros, more than 8 percent up on the same period of last year. EBITDA has increased by no less than 18 percent to 6.4 million Euros. At 3.4 million Euros, however, income is slightly down on last year, the reason being a higher first quarter tax bill. The quota of shareowners’ equity of this family-run business group stands at 40% which corresponded to almost 53 million Euros at the end of 2014. Turnover this year is forecast at between240 and 250 million Euros.

MBB purchases and makes long-term investments in SMEs, and the group comprises names such as plant construction company MBB Fertigungstechnik, supplier of wood-based technological products and Polish paper mill Hanke Tissue.

 

BMW under fire from the shareholders

In the open floor discussion of the Bayerische MotorenWerke (BMW) AGM on May 13, many shareholders expressed concern regarding the appointment of Norbert Reithofer to chair the Supervisory Board directly from the position of company CEO. The rules of good corporate governance state that the CEO ought to wait one or, better still, two years before taking on the leadership of the controlling body. The outgoing chair of the Supervisory Board, Joachim Milberg, justified the decision citing Reithofer’s “extensive” experience, a person who in turn highlighted the ease of the shift completed earlier than expected and without difficulty. BMW acts in accordance with the law on joint-stock companies which states that a majority shareholder possessing more than a quarter of voting rights is not obliged to respect the “cooling-off” period. The three major shareholders who, together, possess almost 47% of share capital with voting rights all belong to the Quandt family. Their standpoint is , is that Reithofer ought firstly to have moved to the chair of the Supervisory Board earlier than planned. This would have cleared the field for the younger executive Harald Krüger, up to then head of production, to take over the CEO slot. On December 9, in accordance with the appointing committee (composed of chair Milberg and members Karl-Ludwig Kley and Quandt siblings Stefan and Susanne Klatten), the Supervisory Board asked Reithofer to stand for election by the shareholders to the chair of the Supervisory Board at the meeting scheduled for May 13.

 

E.ON lifts the wraps for a first glimpse of the planned split

E.ON has made major progress in the spin-off process. The new company that will take over the less attractive sectors of the business will be called Uniper (“Unique Performance”). The headquarters of the new power company will be located at the Düsseldorf river port and Klaus Schäfer , up to now CEO of C.ON., was selected to lead it by the Supervisory Board at its meeting on April 27. Current CEO Johannes Teyssen will remain at the head of the old E.ON group, due to move to Essen where it will focus on renewable energy, power networks and client-oriented solutions. As early as January 2012 Energy commissioner Günther Oettinger suggested to E.ON and RWE, another Essen based company, to unite in order to better tackle the new challenges in power generating. In December 2014, the group announced a radical change. Johannes Teyssen maintains that it was right to take certain decisions in good time before the AGM. In any case, the decision to split the company into two business units will only reach the company agenda in time for the June 2016 AGM. The second half of 2015 will serve to prepare the company structure. Uniper will be the umbrella company for the traditional approach to electricity in sale, prospecting and production. Considering that the reserves set aside for reducing nuclear power stations will pass to the new company, criticism is being levelled at what looks like the creation of a “bad bank” for its nuclear power stations.

 

Joyou: Wrong numbers

Joyou, the Chinese bathroom fittings subsidiary of faucet manufacturer Grohe, has gone bankrupt. The cause of this state of affairs was an excessive indebtedness of 300 million Euros to cover balance sheet irregularities. News of this financial earthquake affecting the Prime Standard-listed company broke at the beginning of May, and now the auditors have revoked certification of the company report and the group’s accounts for 2014. The two executives involved, Jianshe Cai and Jilin Cai, were sacked on the spot by the Supervisory Board. Germany-based Grohe holds a 72 percent stake in Joyou and is now having to face a loss that a report in Finance Magazin estimates in the region 200 million Euros.

 

Sixt Leasing: off to a good start

Soon after getting a stock exchange listing, Sixt Leasing AG announced that it had doubled its group revenue for this year’s first quarter. First quarter EBT is up from last year’s 3.6 million to 7.3 million Euros this year. Prime Standard-listed Sixt Leasing’s turnover is also up 25% and now stands at 165 million Euros. The new kid on the block also saw a rise in its first quarter turnover in both leasing and fleet management. Sixt Leasing AG is an offshoot of Sixt SE car hire and was set up as a self-standing listed company at the beginning of May thanks to the revenue accrued by placing 112 million Euros worth of new shares. At the moment of listing, Sixt SE assigned a further 30 million Euros of equity capital to Sixt Leasing AG.  

 

 


 

 

The German Mittelstand

 

SMEs powerless to protect patents

The 2014 annual report by the German patent and brand regulator (Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt – DPAM) points to patents being the key towards increasing innovation; indeed the number of patents deposited last year increased by 4.4 percent to 66,000. Often, though, assurances of patent security isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. In the real world, smaller SMEs feel far from reassured that their patents are safeguarded from infringement. In a recent award-winning documentary aired by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk on legal proceedings on patent infringement between SMEs and major conglomerates, patent expert Peter Hess of Bardehle Pagenberg PartnerschaftmbH spells it out. “Patents are just paper tigers”

The only real redress for theft of an idea is to sue. Court cases, however, are costly and drawn out. In addition to the legal costs, the plaintiff often has to pay for research, expert advice and legal consultancy. If the defendant is a large company, the claim stands a poorer chance. Conglomerates and major companies are fond of trumping the plaintiff by moving that the patent be declared null.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Ann, chair of economic law and intellectual property at Munich’s Technische Universität is very familiar with the situation. Powerful adversaries drag the fight through the three phases of justice up to the Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH), and in addition they sue for patent nullity before the BGH. All this adds up to a long, costly drawn-out harangue for the plaintiff independently of the merit of his claim. Factor in the uncertainty of the verdict and the upshot is severe limitations on the SME’s freedom of decision in day-to-day business.

One wonders whether certain patents were infringed deliberately. As things stand at present, SME patent proprietors are virtually powerless to defend their rights and often the “little guy” has no choice but to accept the lesser of two evils and give in to the “big guy”, selling his patent off to forestall endangering his company’s survival.

The German government must act quickly. If it really means to promote entrepreneurship, it must guarantee the legal framework within which small SMEs are able to protect their intellectual property. We must never forget that the innovative, creative ideas that contribute in no small measure to our economy are spawned by very small companies. It would indeed be a great pity if that ingenuity and creativity were the very reasons for their downfall.

 

 


 

 

Buhlmann's Corner

 

The German law on joint stock companies celebrates its fiftieth anniversary on September 6, 2015. Many of its provisions affected company legislation in other countries, at least up to the 1990s. The rules that became enshrined in law then are today a true reflection today of corporate governance best practice. The separation of company organs into management and supervision is the bedrock on which so-called paritätische Mitbestimmung [equality in co-determination] stands and hinges on the presence of representatives of the capital (namely the employers) and of the company (namely the employees) on the Supervisory Board. Outside Germany co-determination is not very popular.

Despite the many reforms, updates and amendments, in particular from the 1980s to the present day (in April 2015 alone there were two), the main guidelines for this law have remained intact, and flexible enough to turn the world upside down.

A former trade-union leader chairs the AGM of the (still) second largest car maker in the world, a German company listed on the DAX stock-mark index. Some years ago – I can’t remember whether it was under Toni Schmücker (the man who saved Audi) or his successor Carl H. Hahn (Jr) – a similar state of affairs was scuppered at the last minute. Not this time. At last month’s Volkswagen AGM, the capitalists’ cards were played by a former trade-union leader – incidentally the most expensive AGM chair of all 2015.

At that point, everyone and their uncle felt impelled to flood the media with their written and vocal comments. But nothing bad happened nor did the world come to an end. Berthold Huber (vice chair of the Volkswagen Supervisory Board) is a pragmatic and responsible man, a trade-union leader of the old school. I shudder to think what the like of Frank Bsirske would have got up to in similar circumstances.

Admittedly, the Federal Chancellor in office (at the time of writing Angela Merkel) retains the right to appoint representatives to the VW Supervisory Board. The very idea that the VW board of management is about to be reorganised by a former trade-unionist and, in the case in point, by the chair of an all-powerful works council is bizarre in the extreme unless, that is, under the table, the levers of power are instead very much in the firm grip of the chair of the board of management(who will soon be standing down).

The AGM went off without a hitch. It would appear that being handed a first assignment consisting of leading a global player by its AGM while it is beset by low earnings in its core business, and dogged by heated, uncertain debate is not such a big deal after all. Who knows why it should be so costly?

Commerzbank could learn something here. The AGM focused on management bonuses – just like the adolescent who asks her mother if she could stay out an extra hour at the disco, and if the answer was going to be “no”, was ready to announce “fine; from now on I’ll be staying out an extra hour all the time”. 

 

 

 


 

 

ACTIONS CORNER

 

The OLG Tribunal in Munich, the court appointed to rule on the claim for damages between Deutsche Bank and Leo Kirch has heard Jürgen Fitchen steadfastly deny any intent to mislead. On the contrary, Fitchen claims that he has not “the faintest idea” what the plaintiff’s case is all about. From this stance, the bank’s former Co-CEO went on to refute the magistrates’ allegations that he had made inconclusive declarations in order for Kirch’s application to be rejected, but also to counter the accusation of having done nothing to prevent misleading testimony about the bank being given in the court. The proceedings that hinge on the motives that led former Deutsche Bank chief Rolf Breuer to cast doubt on the creditworthiness of his client Leo Kirch in a television interview in 2002 has been dragging on for over ten years.

 

Salzgitter is again in the spotlight of police investigation. Braunschweig magistrates have announced that former executives of Salzgitter subsidiary Mannesmann Großrohr, are being investigated for suspected corruption. In a note dated May 13, the magistrates stated that on March 10, police raided company premises in Lower Saxony, Switzerland and Austria. Allegations centre on illicit transfers of funds totalling several hundred thousand Euros. The full picture is still unclear but investigators are hoping to find the answers in the extensive paperwork and documentation seized during the raids.

 

The so-called “railtrack trust” legal proceedings being heard by the Bochum court have got off to a flying start with a series of significant confessions. All the accused had reached upper management echelons of Voestalpine and Thyssen Krupp. It seems that for over 10 years the 14 iron and steel executives stipulated price fixing agreements for rail track sales to Deutsche Bahn. Seven of the accused are being cooperative but the other seven are refusing to talk or are denying involvement. The system was apparently one of the upshots of the dominating position in the market that the Essen-based steel group occupied. The magistrates have estimated the extent of the claims in excess of 100 million Euros.

 

 


 

 

Politics

 

Victims of price fixing can now seek redress in the courts

Those who have suffered because of price fixing can now seek justice; guilty parties can be sentenced on the basis of a claim for damages. On May 21, the European Court handed down a ruling to the effect that anyone who has suffered damage because of an illegal cartel can lodge a claim for compensation with the court in any place where any one of the participants of the cartel has its headquarters. The relinquishment of the pursuit of a judicial ruling by any individual plaintiff against any individual defendant whose residence falls under the court’s jurisdiction shall have neither bearing nor prejudice on any claims for compensation lodged against other participants. In addition to being too burdensome, hearing the trials separately would have risked divergent rulings. Those who have been damaged by artificially high prices now have improved chances of redress. Furthermore, the European Court has ruled that the clauses on jurisdiction and arbitration in a contract will not be detrimental to the right of anyone who has suffered damages at European level to plead his case before a unified tribunal. The contract and its clauses remain valid solely when the damaged party was informed of the possibility of a controversy arising from the right to competition at the signature of the contract.

 

A call for greater safeguarding of investors rights at delisting

In the course of the session of May 6 the German parliamentary committee for safeguarding consumer rights heard expert evidence on the draft amendment to the joint-stock company law of 2014. The Christian Democrats are officially demanding more protection for shareholders when companies go through the phase of delisting. In the “Frosta” ruling at the end of 2013, the Federal Court declined to intervene, denying firstly any need for the company’s AGM to formalise a specific decision on its delisting and, secondly, denying any need for an obligatory offer to be addressed to the interests of the minority shareholders.

It is the legislator’s job to establish the appropriate protection. The law should also offer protection to the shareholders of foreign companies listed in a German bourse. 

 

 

 


 

 

People

 

Beiersdorf has announced the election of Danish national Jasper Andersen to its executive board, effective May 18. He will take a few months to get a first hand view of how the company works until September when he will take up the tasks of head of financial affairs. Anderson, previously with Colgate-Palmolive which he joined in 1994, will take over from Ulrich Schmidt, a native of Bevensen, Lower Saxony. Schmidt who was born in 1953 is retiring from the cosmetics company on 31 March 2016 after thirty years of service.

 

Hans Peter Ring has been elected to the Supervisory Board of Bilfinger. Ring, whose previous positions include CFO of EADS, will replace Wolfgang Faden, himself elected on 14 November 2014 by the AGM as a replacement for Herbert Bodner. Bodner had been delegated by the Supervisory Board to its executive board on 9 September 2014, and then, on 13 November 2014, he resigned his chairmanship of the Supervisory Board, by then inactive.

 

Roger A. Crock has relinquished his mandate to the executive board of Deutsche Post, citing “personal reasons”. Deutsche Post seems to have no immediate successor in mind for Crook since his position will be covered in the interim by executive board chair Fran Appel until a new executive board member is appointed. In 2011 Crook himself took the place of Hermann Ude whose resignation had come unexpectedly.

 

Effective June 1, Michael Sen will take on the responsibilities of CFO in E.On. Former CFO Klaus Schäfer will become head of Uniper the new company that will emerge when the power company in two on 1 January 2016. Jorgen Kildahl is resigning on mutually agreed terms to take up new challenges outwith the group, and Mike Winkel is resigning on May 31 “for personal reasons”.

 

Effective early April the executive board of Fielmann has five members, the most recent arrival being Bastina Körbere in charge of sales. Current head of control and IT Stefan Thies will now head human resources which up to now have been managed by executive board chair, Günther Fielmann. In 2014, Fielman, whose contract was extended for a further three years until mid 2017 will continue as head of strategy, marketing and expansion.

 

On April 30, Gerhard Schulze tendered his resignation from Gerresheimer in accordance with the company age limit provisions. Schultze had been chair of the pharmaceutical packaging manufacturer’s Supervisory Board since 2008. His position as chair will be taken by Axel Herberg. The new member appointed to the Supervisory Board is former Siemens executive Andrea Abt. Ms Abt currently works as a consultant and is a professional member of Supervisory Boards.

 

After just two years into their mandate, Michael Frenzel and Jan Martin Wicke have resigned their mandate to the Supervisory Board of HOCHTIEF. The Board expressed their thanks to Frenzel, who for many years served as CEO of TUI, and to Wicke, member of the executive board of Talanz, for their dedication in skill and fortitude. Both men contributed much to the company in a time of change, in a constructive spirit of great commitment. The Essen-based building concern then applied to the courts to have Beate Bell and Patricia Geibel-Conrad appointed to its Supervisory Board. Bell is highly qualified in auditing, compliance and risk management while Geibel-Conrad’s can contribute great financial expertise to the Supervisory Board. In a note dated April 27 HOCHTIEF confirmed that three of the eight seats on the capital bench of its Supervisory Board are occupied by women. Cristine Wolff has been a court-appointed member since October 2014.

 

Andreas Renschler was elected to the Supervisory Board of Hannover-based MAN during the company’s AGM on May 6. The Board then elected him to the chair. Ferdinand Piech resigned all his Supervisory Board mandates in the Volkswagen group of companies, including the MAN subsidiary, after his defeat in the power struggle at Volkswagen at the end of April. Renschler’s chairmanship expires on 30 June 2016.

 

Together with the changes in the top echelons at Metro, the executive board will be extended to five members. The newcomer is Pieter Boone who has been appointed CEO – Metro C&C. from July 1. The other members are Olaf Koch (chair), Mark Frese (Finance), Pieter Haas (Media-Saturn) and Heiko Hutmacher (personnel).

 

Tina Müller was proposed for election to the Supervisory Board of Opel at the company’s AGM in Mannheim on June 18. Müller, who has been head of branding since August 2013, will take the place of Johannes Maret who is resigning for personal reasons.. She has been on the Supervisory Board of the MLP group subsidiary MLP Finanzdienstleistungen since June 2013.

 

On April 30, VOLKSWAGEN announced that two women, Louise Kiesling and Julia Kuhn-Piech, had joined the company’s 20-strong Supervisory Board. The automobile manufacturer’s Executive Board had applied to the Braunschweig court for a ruling to replace outgoing members Ferdinand Piech and his wife Ursula with two of Piech’s nieces. Although critical of the selection, pointing to the lack of experience of the two women in car manufacturing, the patriarch did not formally oppose the appointments albeit his stated preference being for Wolfgang Reitzle and Brigitte Ederer. Kuhn-Piech has been on the Supervisory Board of MAN since 2014. There is still uncertainty as to who will take over the chair of the Executive Board.  

 

 

In the course of Airbus group’s AGM in Amsterdam on May 27 last, Maria Amparo Morale da Martinez was appointed to replace Josep Piqué i Camps as independent member of the executive board . The Madrid government had attempted to convince Piqué to serve out his full term of office so as to prevent Amparo Morale da Martinez getting elected. During the Q & A time in the lead up to the vote, VIP remarked “anyone who can survive for that number of years in the unforgiving management of IBERDROLA has got what it takes to deliver on any kind of mandate.

 

Just a few hours before the commencement of its AGM, Deutsche Bank sprang a surprise move at upper-echelon staff level. Co-CEO Anshu Jaim strategically extended his area of responsibility and so head of legal affairs Christian Sewing will now also be Head of Private and Business Clients. On May 20 last, the Supervisory Board agreed to 50-year-old Neske’s request to terminate his contract by June 20, a move seen by many to indicate an agreement on terms between Neske and the various levels of the company involved. With 3/5 of votes the AGM gave its approval to Co-CEO Jain’s management.. “Today we vote against the management, nevertheless it is the last chance for Mr. Jaim …. He has one year left”, commented Ingo Speicher, spokesperson for Union Investment, in an interview recorded by Bloomberg during the event.

 

Forklift truck manufacturer Jungheinrich is raising the number of its executive board to five. From July 1, Oliver Lücke will take over responsibility of the area of Engineering from Klaus-Dieter Rosenbach who, in turn, is now head of the new area of logistic systems. Up till now, Lücke has been director of the production facilities in Norderstedt and Lüneburg.

 

Hartmut Mehdorn, who boasts a 17-year-long membership of the Supervisory Bord of SAP has tendered his resignation for reasons of health, and is taking retirement. The decision has come as a surprise . On May 20, Mehdorn announced he was standing down from all his public offices. His replacement is expected to be Prof.ssa Gesche Joost, a design researcher who teaches at the Berlin Arts University.

 

Nordex: unexpected departure

Jürgen Weschky tendered his resignation as chair of the board of management of wind farm specialist Nordex SE at the end of May. Citing personal reasons, his resignation from the TecDax-listed company was effective immediately. Since taking over leadership in 2012, the company has enjoyed vigorous growth, turning itself round in 2013. Keschky’s legacy is now in the hands of Lars Bondo Krogrsgaar who, up to now has been the board of management member for distribution. CFP Bernard Schäferbarthold will also remain on the board of management. Nordex has announced that the board of management will be bolstered by a so-called Executive Committee of the heads of the company’s key areas who, under the leadership of CEO Krogsgaard, will plan company strategy and other upper-echelon management matters.

 

Schaltbau: musical chairs for the board of management

Sdax-listed Schaltbau Holding AG, supplier of components for transportation technology is also in the throes of change. Ralf Klädtke is expected to join the board of management next month in charge of the mobile transportation technology business unit. A graduate in aerospace engineering, Klädtke has occupied top management positions in MAN,EADS and Carl Zeiss Optronics. His latest position was managing director of Airbus DS Optronics GmbH owned by the Airbus group.

Inn the meantime, Dirk Löchner, member of the management board in charge of strategic development and managing director of the subsidiary company Gebr. Bode, has applied to bring his resignation from the Schaltbau top management team forward to May. According to a company communiqué, Löchner intends to turn his attention to other matters outwith the group. In the meantime, however he is being retained by the company and the group in a consultative capacity. Management board spokesperson , Jürgen Cammann and CFO Elisabeth Prigge will continue to serve on the board of management in their present capacities.

 

Stabilus: new controller

Andi Klein is no longer a member of the Stabilus S.A. Supervisory Board. Klein joined the consultative commission in 2010 as representative of majority shareholder Triton, later joining the Supervisory Board when the company obtained its SDax stock exchange listing. His appointed successor on the Supervisory Board is Joachim Rauhut who sits on the board of management of Wacker Chemie AG. Management engineer Rauhut has held upper-management posts in a number of companies such as Mannesmann and Krauss-Maffei before ushering Wacker to its 2006 stock-market listing. The other Supervisory Board members are UdoStark, his second-in-command Stephan Kessel and Nizar Ghoussaini.

 

 

 


 

 

Campus

 

One in ten companies feel OK about paying bribes

A survey carried out by Ernst & Young and published May 20 this year revealed that, 36% of German executives resort to accounting cosmetics to spruce up their accounts or to bribes and or corruption to secure orders, particularly when the occasion demands. The auditing and consultancy concern highlighted that a mere 23% of the 100 executives interviewed found the code of ethics followed by their company convincing. Indeed, it emerged that eight percent even admitted to a certain measure of “cost underreporting” last financial year. E&Y stressed that behind these illicit acts there is no coterie of delinquent managers. In the course of the presentation in Frankfurt, Ernst and Young stressed that today, two out of three companies have specific directives prohibiting corruption and the payment of bribes; a mere four years ago only half of the group had regulations of this kind. E & Y reads this trend as a step forward in Germany’s fight against corruption, Still, more than a quarter of the executives feel that corruption is still rife in Germany.

 

The German people’s bias and doubts about investing in stocks and shares

According to a recent survey carried out by Deutsche Aktieninstitut (DAI) and the Stuttgart bourse, presented in Frankfurt on 7 May, 55 percent of 2000 Germans interviewed, would not buy stocks and shares as a means of investment. Those interviewed feel that investing in stocks and shares is too complicated, something for people with plenty of money, that you need to know a lot about to do properly, and a risky business, an attitude reflected in the “negative idea that people have about capital markets”. Those who tend to find investing in shares particularly alienating are young investors according to a survey conducted by DAI. Indeed 31 percent of interviewees do not believe that investing in stocks and shares could be more profitable than with other forms of investment. Looking on the bright side, however, 45 percent were interested in stocks and shares as a long-term investment – a percentage much higher than that of those possessing bonds and shares in Germany, presently 13.1 percent.

 

The earnings of MDax CEOs are half of those of their DAX-listed peers

In 2014, the 50 MDax-listed companies posted an average rise in EBIT of 23 percent to 564 million Euros. This, notes Towers Watson, resulted in an average increase of 7 percent in the direct earnings of the CEOs involved, now 2.4 million Euros. The major differences among the earnings of MDax CEOs emerge in those pegged to profitability. This translates into a gap between the 0.8 million Euro pay-check of the CEO of LEG Immobilien and the 4.7 million each of Thomas Enders (Airbus) and Günther Fielmann. If the supplementary payments granted last year are also factored in, Thomas Ebeling (ProSiebenSat.1) comes out on top with earnings totalling 27.7 million Euros. At an average of 5.5 million Euros, the pay-check of MDax CEOs in 2014 was roughly half of that earned by their Dax-listed peers.

 

 

 


 

 

Capital News

 

In response to the increasingly strict demands of controllers and investors, Commerzbank closed off its increase in share capital on April 28 that it had sprung on the market the day before after accruing a gross revenue of 1.4 thousand million Euros. 113.850.693 new shares were placed at 12.10 Euros per share by means of a so-called accelerated bookbuilding process with institutional investors. Existing shareholders were left empty handed. This lowered German participation in the Soffin bank salvage fund from 187.3 to 15.6 percent. As placement proceeded, the bank’s quota of core capital rose from the 9.3 percent of the end of 2014 to a proforma 10.2 percent at the end of March, on the assumption, obviously, that the Basel III capital regulations are fully adhered to. At this juncture, and for the first time since 2008, the bank is genuionely preparing for a dividend payout.

 

Deutsche Wohnen’s decision to proceed with a massive increase in capital, and dig deep into its pocket to acquire a real estate portfolio was not particularly appreciated by its shareholders. The company is buying up some 6500 apartments, mostly in Berlin, and committing no less than 500 million Euros to pay for them. The transaction is expected to be financed by a capital measure. Deutsche Wohnen had already announced their target revenue of 907 million Euros gross against a cash contribution at 7:1 between old and new shares, generating up to 42.2 million new shares. Deutsche Wohnen is planning further purchases and aims at refinancing part of its indebtedness, a move that should reduce its level of indebtedness to less than 45% with an average interest rate of under 2%.

 

The acquisitions coffers of hi-tech machine tool manufacturer Manz have increased by approximately 41.9 million Euros. A share placement that was launched on April 28 and closed off the following day, April 29, involved 492,895 shares at a placement price of 85 Euros, 3.4% lower than the April 28 closing price. Investors are anything but happy with this turn of events. In the single move of placing 100,000 shares, principal shareholder and CEO Dieter Manz transformed his entire portfolio into liquidity. The shares of the former solar panel producer have a stock-market floor value of no less than 8.8 million Euros which he aims to use to fund growth. This current year, Manz’s target turnover is from 320 to 340 million Euros, and, it goes without saying, to make a profit.

 

Siltronic: ready, get set, go

Siltronic AG, part of Wacker Chemie AG, is preparing for stock exchange flotation envisaged before the 2015 summer break, aiming for Prime Standard listing on the Frankfurt Bourse. Consequently the manufacturer of pure silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry and the Wacker group are preparing to place new shares deriving from an increase in capital, and sell off stock from Wacker’s portfolio. Siltronic has pointed out that the offer is open to private and institutional investors in Germany and Luxembourg. On the international stage, the company intends placing the shares privately. The net revenue will be used to reduce indebtedness. No further details have been made public regarding the transaction. Siltronic is present on the international market with a staff of some 4000.

 

Windeln.de: the stock market is in the air

Windeln.de, online trader in products for new-borns and infants in German speaking markets, turned to the stock-market in May, and accrued a revenue of some 211 million Euros. Established five years ago, the start-up placed more than 11 million shares at the issue price of 18.50 Euros per share in the Prime Standard listings on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. 5.4 million Euros worth of shares derive from an increase in capital, and 4.5 million Euros by participation on the part of shareholders willing to assign. Approximately 1.5 million shares were placed by an additional distribution. The revenue of 127 million Euros deriving from the issue will go directly into the company coffers and the remainder will go to the company founders and prior investors. According to the company, the principal shareholders have stood their ground.

The company was swift in making a name for itself on the international stage, indeed almost half of its turnover is generated in China. Windeln.de recently bought over its competitor in the Czech Republic Feedo giving momentum to its expansion in Eastern Europe. Stock market listing is intended to underpin company growth. Lately, company turnover was 101 million Euros and losses amounted to 9.8 million Euros, almost 2.5 million Euros less than 2013.

 

PNE Wind: fresh money for restructuring

Wind farm planner PNE Wind AG successfully launched a capital increase of 9.5 million Euros in mid May. The initiative was devised as a means of underpinning company resources with an eye to company restructuring. The Prime Standard listed company issued 4.6 million new shares at 2.07 Euros per share and were traded within a private placement. According to PNE, the revenue will be used to finance the broadening of a business model that concentrates projects into a subsidiary company. The quotas of this so-called yieldco are expected to be sold to investors, hopefully by the end of 2016 when the subsidiary company begins to generate a profit.  

 

Organization at the speed of light

It’s been 7 years since Zalando’s brainchild of merchandising footwear on line became reality with the early sales of your basic flip-flops. Now, the day after the company’s first AGM after IPO, the company finds itself MDax-listed. There was a excitement in the air, fuelled also by the variety of those present, from dreadlocks to a former CEO of a DAX-listed iron and steel concern . The company’s success seems to stem from keeping new ideas funky.

 

 


 

 

Director's Dealings

 

Company Person Function Buy / Sell Total value in Euro Number of shares Datum
Aurubis AG Schwertz, Rolf SB S 93.731 1.564 29.04.2015
Axel Springer SE Springer, Friede SB B 1.480.338 29.804 05.05.2015
Axel Springer SE Springer, Friede SB B 965.719 19.606 06.05.2015
Axel Springer SE Springer, Friede SB B 499.800 10.200 07.05.2015
BASF SE Suckale, Margret MB B 103.114 1.200 06.05.2015
Bilfinger SE Salzmann, Axel MB B 120.655 2.950 26.05.2015
Bilfinger SE Keysberg, Dr. Jochen MB B 242.048 6.200 12.05.2015
Deutsche Börse Aktiengesellschaft Roggemann, Gerhard SB B 74.710 1.000 29.05.2015
Deutsche EuroShop AG AROSA Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft m.b.H.   B 13.103.031 287.001 26.05.2015
Deutsche EuroShop AG PANTA Dreiundsechzigste Grundstücksgesellschaft m.b.H.   B 27.216.041 596.124 26.05.2015
Deutsche EuroShop AG PANTA Einundneunzigste Grundstücksgesellschaft m.b.H.   S 34.697.800 760.000 26.05.2015
Deutsche EuroShop AG PANTA Stiftungsverwaltung G.m.b.H.   S 5.621.272 123.125 26.05.2015
Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft Kley, Dr. Karl-Ludwig SB B 99.739 7.800 29.04.2015
Dialog Semiconductor Plc. Burke, Christopher SB Exercise an Option 583 3.889 15.05.2015
Dialog Semiconductor Plc. Burke, Christopher SB S 192.649 3.889 15.05.2015
Dialog Semiconductor Plc. Richard, Jean-Michel MB S 180.186 3.456 28.05.2015
Dialog Semiconductor Plc. Richard, Jean-Michel MB S 28.904 570 19.05.2015
Dialog Semiconductor Plc. Austin, Andrew MB S 45.776 907 19.05.2015
Dialog Semiconductor Plc. Austin, Andrew MB Exercise an Option 14.512 907 19.05.2015
Dialog Semiconductor Plc. Richard, Jean-Michel MB S 435.614 8.786 15.05.2015
Dialog Semiconductor Plc. Richard, Jean-Michel MB Exercise an Option 121.376 7.586 15.05.2015
DMG MORI SEIKI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Thönes, Christian MB Cash Compensation 32.994 1.080 07.05.2015
Fielmann Aktiengesellschaft Frey, Hans-Georg SB B 39.377 650 05.05.2015
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA Kuerbitz, Ronald MB Exercise an Option 1.423.073 18.000 28.05.2015
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA Kuerbitz, Ronald MB Exercise an Option 2.332.998 30.000 26.05.2015
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA Powell, Rice MB-Head Exercise an Option 3.890.311 49.800 20.05.2015
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA Wehner, Dominik MB Exercise an Option 3.890.311 49.800 20.05.2015
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA Wehner, Dominik MB Exercise an Option 1.266.764 16.335 21.05.2015
FUCHS PETROLUB SE Hambrecht, Dr. Jürgen SB-Head B 40.293 1.000 26.05.2015
FUCHS PETROLUB SE Rudolf Fuchs GmbH & Co KG   B 718.201 19.500 28.05.2015
FUCHS PETROLUB SE Rudolf Fuchs GmbH & Co KG   B 1.192.548 32.500 29.05.2015
FUCHS PETROLUB SE Rudolf Fuchs GmbH & Co KG   B 1.135.283 31.493 26.05.2015
FUCHS PETROLUB SE Rudolf Fuchs GmbH & Co KG   B 90.717 2.500 27.05.2015
FUCHS PETROLUB SE Rudolf Fuchs GmbH & Co KG   B 195.823 5.500 21.05.2015
FUCHS PETROLUB SE Rudolf Fuchs GmbH & Co KG   B 528.560 14.707 22.05.2015
FUCHS PETROLUB SE Rudolf Fuchs GmbH & Co KG   B 415.671 12.000 19.05.2015
FUCHS PETROLUB SE Rudolf Fuchs GmbH & Co KG   B 710.876 20.300 20.05.2015
FUCHS PETROLUB SE Fuchs, Andrea   B 10.008 296 15.05.2015
FUCHS PETROLUB SE Fuchs, Anna-Louisa   B 13.384 400 13.05.2015
FUCHS PETROLUB SE Fuchs, Mary-Ann   B 13.863 414 13.05.2015
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft Bauer, Prof. Dr. Werner SB B 99.464 2.325 18.05.2015
Gerry Weber International Aktiengesellschaft Lippert, Klaus SB B 2.926 100 08.05.2015
Gerry Weber International Aktiengesellschaft Weber, Ralf MB-Head B 361.122 12.200 15.05.2015
Gerry Weber International Aktiengesellschaft Weber, Ralf MB-Head B 131.581 4.546 07.05.2015
Gerry Weber International Aktiengesellschaft Weber, Ralf MB-Head B 189.088 6.500 06.05.2015
K+S Aktiengesellschaft Nöcker, Dr. Thomas MB B 60.000 2.000 12.05.2015
K+S Aktiengesellschaft Nöcker, Dr. Thomas MB B 60.940 2.000 12.05.2015
KUKA Aktiengesellschaft Eberhardt, Wilfried SB B 16.979 250 12.05.2015
KUKA Aktiengesellschaft Eberhardt, Wilfried SB B 13.425 200 14.05.2015
LEG Immobilien AG Scharpe, Dr. Jochen SB S 283.359 4.000 29.04.2015
LEONI AG Bellé, Dieter MB-Head B 152.343 2.700 12.05.2015
LEONI AG Paglia, Richard SB B 7.551 134 12.05.2015
LEONI AG Brand, Dr. Andreas MB B 101.308 1.800 12.05.2015
Linde Aktiengesellschaft Blades, Thomas MB B 232.290 1.319 15.05.2015
Linde Aktiengesellschaft Büchele, Dr. Wolfgang MB-Head B 233.875 1.328 15.05.2015
Linde Aktiengesellschaft Denoke, Georg MB B 262.053 1.488 15.05.2015
Linde Aktiengesellschaft Lamba, Sanjiv MB B 228.944 1.300 15.05.2015
Manz AG Manz, Dieter MB-Head S 8.500.000 100.000 29.04.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Beckmann, Dr. Kai MB B 1.498.500 15.000 19.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Kley, Dr. Karl-Ludwig MB-Head B 513.248 5.098 20.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Kley, Dr. Karl-Ludwig MB-Head B 100.300 1.000 19.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Oschmann, Dr. Stefan MB B 1.103.283 11.000 19.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 9.977 100 20.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 19.957 200 20.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 19.957 200 20.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 99.700 1.000 19.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 19.938 200 21.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 101.000 1.000 22.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 19.938 200 21.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 14.955 150 21.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 14.955 150 21.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 6.767 67 22.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 30.300 300 22.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 13.433 133 22.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 95.699 950 28.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 14.955 150 21.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 50.500 500 22.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 101.519 1.000 22.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 99.164 1.000 26.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 199.952 2.000 26.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 100.982 1.000 26.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 102.000 1.000 26.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 14.955 150 21.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 14.968 150 20.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 14.969 150 20.05.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 19.953 200 20.05.2015
MorphoSys AG Morich, Dr. Frank SB B 63.510 1.000 12.05.2015
MTU Aero Engines AG Martens, Dr. Rainer MB B 98.555 1.150 12.05.2015
MTU Aero Engines AG Martens, Dr. Rainer MB B 172.841 1.905 30.04.2015
MTU Aero Engines AG Schreyoegg, Michael MB B 31.302 345 30.04.2015
MTU Aero Engines AG Winkler, Reiner MB-Head B 191.894 2.115 30.04.2015
Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Mayrhuber, Wolfgang SB B 149.971 870 15.05.2015
Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft von Bomhard, Dr. Nikolaus MB-Head B 339.520 2.000 07.05.2015
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG Helmes, Dr. Marion SB B 30.346 640 20.05.2015
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG Aris, Antoinette SB B 10.122 215 29.04.2015
QSC AG Hermann, Jürgen MB-Head B 194.060 100.000 12.05.2015
RIB Software AG Sanio, Dr. Hans-Peter MB S 311.960 22.000 05.05.2015
RWE Aktiengesellschaft Terium, Peter MB-Head B 82.293 3.776 19.05.2015
RWE Aktiengesellschaft Günther, Dr. Bernhard MB B 36.426 1.661 18.05.2015
SAP SE Mucic, Luka MB B 48.299 700 20.05.2015
SAP SE Klein-Magar, Margret SB S 7.948 120 07.05.2015
SAP SE Leukert, Bernd MB S 105.647 1.595 07.05.2015
Symrise AG Gerberding, Horst-Otto SB B 9.126.015 161.294 13.05.2015
Symrise AG Bertram, Dr. Heinz-Jürgen MB-Head B 55.688 1.000 06.05.2015
Wirecard AG MB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH   B 1.522.608 40.000 29.05.2015
Wirecard AG MB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH   B 2.255.238 60.000 28.05.2015
Wirecard AG MB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH   B 5.345.085 150.000 07.05.2015

 

 


 

 

VIPsight Shareholders

in May 2015

 

VIPsight Shareholder ID - MDAX, SDAX <click here>

 

VIPsigh Shareholder ID: …….. Holdings in per cent
Companies Own-shares Notifiable shareholders Share Investment companies (KAGs) making disclosures*  
        Total Change Biggest KAG Share
               
DAX              
               
adidas AG   BlackRock, Inc. 3,39 St 27,97 0,01 Capital Research and Management Company 3,53
    O. Mason Hawkins 3,06 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 2,88 St        
    Thornburg Investment Management Inc. 2,73 St        
    UBS AG 1,83 St        
    Vorstand & Aufsichtsrat 1 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,38 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,35 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,16 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,05 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,03 St        
               
Allianz SE 0,60 (St) BlackRock, Inc. 5,49 St 26,94 -0,67 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 2,17
    NEU Harris Associates L.P. 3,05 St        
    UBS Group AG 3,04 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 2,84 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,21 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,04 St        
               
BASF SE   BlackRock, Inc. 5,62 St 18,71 -0,24 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 2,18
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,32 St        
    NEU Credit Suisse Group AG 2,26 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,78 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,35 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,11 St        
               
Bayer AG   The Capital Group Companies Inc. 6,48 St 30,91 -0,31 Capital Research and Management Company 5,13
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,93 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 3 St        
    Bayer-Mitarbeiter 1 St        
               
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG   AQTON SE 17,4 St 16,05 -0,39 Dodge & Cox Funds 1,51
    Johanna Quandt 16,7 St        
    Susanne Klatten Beteiligungs GmbH 12,6 St        
    BlackRock 2,96 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 2,58 St        
               
Beiersdorf AG 9,99 (St) maxingvest ag 50,47 St 8,55 -0,16 Artisan Partners Funds, Inc. 1,06
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,68 St        
               
Commerzbank AG   Bundesrepublik Deutschland 15,6 St 17,17 0,24 Capital Research and Management Company 4,89
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,01 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 4,54 St        
    EuroPacific Growth Fund 2,75 St        
    SILAG AG 0,19 St        
               
Continental AG   Schaeffler Group 46 St 20,66 -0,30 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,18
    BlackRock, Inc. 3,3 St        
    The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc 0,02 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0 St        
               
Daimler AG   Kuwait Investment Authority 6,8 St 21,22 -0,12 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 2,02
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,12 St        
    Renault S. A. 3,1 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,05 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,3 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 1,11 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,11 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,08 St        
               
Deutsche Bank AG 0,02 (St) BlackRock, Inc. 6 St 16,16 -0,16 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 2,30
    Paramount Services Holdings Ltd. 5,83 St        
    UBS AG 2,1 St        
    LYXOR INTERNATIONAL ASSET MANAGEMENT S.A.S. 2,04 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,21 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,35 St        
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0,07 St        
    Anshuman Jain 0,06 St        
    Henry Ritchotte 0,02 St        
    Jürgen Fitschen 0,02 St        
    Rainer Neske 0,01 St        
    Dr. Stephan Leithner 0,01 St        
               
Deutsche Börse AG 4,57 (St) Invesco Ltd. 4,98 St 31,84 -0,13 Capital Research and Management Company 3,33
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,7 St        
    Baillie Gifford & Co. 3 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 2,98 St        
    Dodge & Cox 2,96 St        
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 2,9 St        
    UBS AG 2,52 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,23 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,15 St        
               
Deutsche Lufthansa AG   Templeton Global Advisors Limited 5 St 26,16 -0,15 Franklin Templeton Investments 4,84
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,96 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 2,95 St        
    UBS AG 2,89 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,35 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,25 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,2 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,2 St        
               
Deutsche Post AG 0,12 (St) KfW - Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau 20,96 St 19,86 -1,76 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 1,76
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,81 St        
               
Deutsche Telekom AG 0,41 (St) KfW - Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau 17,44 St 14,20 -0,02 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 1,52
    Bundesrepublik Deutschland 14,26 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,97 St        
               
E.ON SE 3,41 (St) BlackRock, Inc. 5,71 St 17,07 -0,27 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 2,34
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,96 St        
               
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA 2,43 (St) Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA 30,33 St 16,24 -0,18 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 1,32
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,11 St        
    Thornburg Investment Management Inc. 2,96 St        
    UBS AG 2,66 St        
    Dr. Rainer Runte 0,03 St        
    Roberto Fusté 0,03 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,01 St        
               
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA   Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung 26,7 St 19,92 1,70 Harbor Fund 2,35
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,97 St        
    Allianz SE 3,83 St        
    Henderson Group plc 3,01 St        
               
HeidelbergCement AG   Ludwig Merckle 25,81 St 24,18 -0,20 First Eagle Funds (division of ASB Securities LLC) 5,71
    Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings, Inc. 5,11 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,1 St        
    Morgan Stanley 2,98 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0 St        
               
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA 2,07 (Vz) Familie Henkel 60,84 St 22,84 -0,31 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,42
               
Infineon Technologies AG   Dodge & Cox 9,46 St 37,04 0,12 Dodge & Cox Funds 5,88
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 7,73 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,16 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 5,02 St        
    Kuwait 3,25 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 3 St        
    UBS AG 2,4 St        
               
K+S AG   BlackRock, Inc. 3,85 St 16,20 -0,11 Capital Research and Management Company 3,66
    Meritus Trust Company Limited 2,97 St        
    UBS AG 2,63 St        
    EuroPacific Growth Fund 2,49 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 0,45 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,37 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,14 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,05 St        
               
LANXESS AG   Dodge & Cox 5,09 St 25,11 -1,19 Dodge & Cox Funds 4,96
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,78 St        
    UBS Group AG 3,59 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 3,16 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,92 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 1,28 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,92 St        
               
Linde AG 0,05 (St) Sun Life Financial Inc. 5,02 St 32,54 -0,22 Capital Research and Management Company 2,77
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,83 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 2,99 St        
    Commerzbank AG 2,94 St        
    UBS AG 2,75 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 1,77 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,75 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,43 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,07 St        
               
MERCK KGaA   BlackRock, Inc. 6,15 St 36,28 0,15 Newton Fund Managers Ltd. 5,52
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 5,76 St        
    Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC 4,99 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 1,41 St        
    UBS AG 1,26 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,12 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,09 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,05 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,01 St        
               
Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG   Warren E. Buffett 12 St 21,61 0,31 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 2,09
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,16 St        
    People's Bank of China / State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) 3,22 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,64 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,95 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,28 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,06 St        
               
RWE AG   RWEB GmbH 16,15 St 15,99 0,06 Alken AM LLP (UK) 2,09
    Privataktionäre 13 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,5 St        
    NEU MIPL Group Limited 3,02 St        
    Alken Luxembourg S.A. 2,97 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,62 St        
    Belegschaftsaktionäre 1 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,36 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,01 St        
               
SAP SE 2,71 (St) Prof. Hasso Plattner 8,65 St 13,08 -0,82 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 1,58
    Erbengemeinschaft nach Dr. h.c. Klaus Tschira 7,84 St        
    Dr. Dietmar Hopp 5,31 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,46 St        
    Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas 3,95 St        
    Morgan Stanley 1,21 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 0,67 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,1 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,08 St        
               
Siemens AG 5,19 (St) Siemens (Familie) 6 St 16,41 -0,21 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 1,95
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,12 St        
    DIC Company Limited 3,04 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,44 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,14 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,19 St        
    Vorstand 0,03 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,02 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,01 St        
               
ThyssenKrupp AG   Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung 23,03 St 10,95 -0,13 BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 1,37
    Cevian Capital II GP Limited 15,08 St        
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 4,97 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,2 St        
               
VOLKSWAGEN AG   Porsche Automobil Holding SE 50,73 St 20,38 0,01 Capital Research and Management Company 3,52
    Land Niedersachsen 20 St        
    Katar Holding 17 St        
               
TecDAX              
               
AIXTRON SE   Camma B.V. 6,79 St 33,23 2,50 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 7,75
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 6,04 St        
    UBS Group AG 5,38 St        
    Generation Investment Management LLP 5,16 St        
    Baillie Gifford & Co. 4,62 St        
    ING Groep N.V. 3,89 St        
    Vanguard Group Inc. 3 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,96 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,18 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,04 St        
               
BB BIOTECH AG 5,09 (St) Paul E. Singer 5,47 St 9,86 -0,84 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,04
               
Bechtle AG   Karin Schick 35,02 St 28,21 -0,40 Flossbach von Storch AG 9,61
    Flossbach von Storch Invest S.A. 10,07 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 4,99 St        
    LOYS Sivac 3,34 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,99 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 2,86 St        
    Jürgen Schäfer 0,02 St        
               
CANCOM SE   Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 9,93 St 24,19 0,26 Threadneedle Asset Management Limited 3,61
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 6,02 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Luxembourg S.A. 4,78 St        
    Denver Investment Advisors LLC 3 St        
    Klaus Weinmann 0,89 St        
    Source Markets plc 0,8 St        
    Dominik Eberle 0,07 St        
               
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG   Carl Zeiss AG 65,05 St 10,81 0,24 Oddo Asset Management 2,14
    ODDO ET CIE 3,04 St        
    NEU Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company 3,01 St        
               
CompuGROUP Medical AG 6,57 (St) Frank Gotthardt 33,65 St 18,16 0,10 Fidelity Managem.& Research Co. 5,41
    Dr. Daniel Gotthardt 6,71 St        
    Dr. Brigitte Gotthardt 6,35 St        
    Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) 5,66 St        
    FMR LLC 5,09 St        
    Dr. Reinhard Koop 3,86 St        
    Armor Advisors, LLC 3 St        
    OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 2,96 St        
    Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company 2,95 St        
               
Dialog Semiconductor PLC   Citigroup Global Markets 6,65 St 29,02 -0,11 CI Investments Inc. 4,01
    The Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV 5,48 St        
    RBC Investor Services Trust 5,26 St        
    Robert Citrone 5,13 St        
    Clearstream Banking S.A. 4,61 St        
    Chase Nominees Ltd 4,55 St        
    CACEIS Bank France 4,43 St        
    BNP Paribas Securities Services 4,04 St        
    Kleinwort Benson (Jersey) Trustees Limited as Trustee of the Dialog Semiconductor plc Employee Benefit Trust 3,99 St        
    Waddell and Reed Financial Inc. 3,84 St        
    Nortrust Nominees Limited 3,81 St        
    State Street 3 St        
    Black Creek Investment Management Inc. 2,94 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 2,75 St        
               
Drillisch AG   Ralph Dommermuth 11,58 St 27,74 -0,48 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 5,40
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5,15 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 4,58 St        
    Alken Luxembourg S.A. 3,25 St        
    FMR LLC 2,93 St        
    Marc Brucherseifer 2,03 St        
    Mellon Capital Management Corporation 1,77 St        
    Paschalis Choulidis 0,8 St        
    Vlasios Choulidis 0,75 St        
    Johann Weindl 0,02 St        
    Dr. Horst Lennertz 0,01 St        
               
Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA   Familie Dräger 71,42 St 33,06 2,04 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 2,88
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,27 St        
    NEU SICAV Objectif Small Caps Euro 3,19 St        
    Lazard Freres Gestion S.A.S. 3,04 St        
    Oddo Asset Management 2,97 St        
    Dräger Stiftung 0,12 St        
               
Evotec AG   Roland Oetker 13,23 St 9,06 -0,05 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,42
    BVF Inc. 12,57 St        
    TVM V Life Science Management GmbH & Co. KG 5,37 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 3 St        
    Dr. Werner Lanthaler 0,4 St        
    Dr. Mario Polywka 0,05 St        
    Mary C. Tanner 0,05 St        
    Dr. Walter Wenninger 0,03 St        
    Dr. Cord Dohrmann 0,03 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0 St        
               
freenet AG   Allianz Global Investors GmbH 5,16 St 39,72 -1,76 DeAWM Investment GmbH 6,06
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,65 St        
    Flossbach von Storch SICAV 3,15 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,98 St        
    J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc 2,98 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,82 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,65 St        
               
GFT Technologies AG   Ulrich Dietz 28,08 St 7,84 -0,43 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 1,68
    Maria Dietz 9,68 St        
    Dr. Markus Kerber 4,99 St        
    NEU Fidelity Funds SICAV 3,09 St        
    Baden-Württembergische Versorgungsanstalt für Ärzte, Zahnärzte und Tierärzte 2,99 St        
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,99 St        
    Dr. Jochen Ruetz 0,38 St        
    Marika Lulay 0,14 St        
    Andreas Bernhardt 0,1 St        
               
JENOPTIK AG   Thüringer Industriebeteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG 11 St 27,88 -1,33 DeAWM Investment GmbH 8,02
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 5,2 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,55 St        
    Oddo Asset Management 2,97 St        
    Source Markets plc 0,25 St        
               
LPKF Laser & Electronics AG   Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3,32 St 20,82 0,28 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 3,32
    Lazard Freres Gestion S.A.S. 3,24 St        
    Rock Point Advisors LLC 3,04 St        
    Andrew Gibbs 3,01 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 2,92 St        
    WA Holdings, Inc. 2,89 St        
    Henderson Global Investors Limited 2,72 St        
    Bernd Hackmann 0,56 St        
    Bernd Lange 0,34 St        
    Dr. Ingo Bretthauer 0,25 St        
    Kai Bentz 0,07 St        
    Dr. Heino Büsching 0,04 St        
    Prof. Dr. Erich Barke 0,01 St        
               
Manz AG   Dieter Manz 35,2 St 11,36 -0,29 AXA Fund Management S.A. 1,20
    Ulrike Manz 3,8 St        
    Otto Angerhofer 3,04 St        
    AXA S.A. 2,65 St        
    ETHENEA Independent Investment S.A. 2,4 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 2,1 St        
               
MorphoSys AG 1,70 (St) Flossbach von Storch Invest S.A. 5,78 St 27,61 0,03 OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 4,39
    Novartis Pharma AG 5,56 St        
    OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 4,91 St        
    Templeton Global Advisors Limited 3,1 St        
    AVIVA plc 3,01 St        
    Celgene Alpine Investment Co., LLC 3,01 St        
    Credit Suisse Fund Management S.A 2,95 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,95 St        
    Perceptive Life Sciences Master Fund, Ltd. 2,94 St        
    Invesco Advisers, Inc. 2,65 St        
    Dr. Simon Moroney 1,71 St        
    Dr. Marlies Sproll 0,11 St        
    Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,07 St        
               
Nemetschek AG   Prof. Georg Nemetschek 53,57 St 16,97 0,01 OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 2,71
    NEU Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 3,05 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,95 St        
    Allianz SE 0,96 St        
               
Nordex SE   SKion/momentum capital/Klatten 22,85 St 15,32 0,02 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,89
    NEU JPMorgan Chase Bank 3,22 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 3,06 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,95 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,13 St        
    Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart 0,01 St        
    UniCredit Bank AG 0,01 St        
               
Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG   Privataktionäre 4,9 St 44,41 1,85 Parvest Investment Management Company S.A. 3,45
    Hakuto - Handelsvertretung 3,48 St        
    Henderson Global Investors Limited 3,44 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3,08 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 2,96 St        
    Montanaro Asset Management Ltd 2,94 St        
    Capital Research and Management Company 2,68 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,53 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 2,28 St        
    Mitglieder von Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,06 St        
               
QIAGEN N.V. 3,21 (St) PRIMECAP Management Company 9,21 St 19,55 -0,12 Franklin Templeton Investments 2,99
    BlackRock, Inc. 7,31 St        
    Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC 5,75 St        
    Platinum Investment Management Limited 4,17 St        
    Manning & Napier Advisors, LLC 2,89 St        
    Generation Investment Management LLP 2,88 St        
    Baillie Gifford & Co. 2,43 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,2 St        
    Harding Loevner LLC 2,18 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,07 St        
    Amundi Group 2,03 St        
    Dr. Metin Colpan 1,52 St        
    Peer M. Schatz 0,82 St        
    Prof. Dr. Detlev H. Riesner 0,61 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 0,27 St        
               
QSC AG   Gerd Eickers 12,55 St 22,82 -1,86 Kempen Capital Management NV 10,17
    Dr. Bernd Schlobohm 12,5 St        
    J O Hambro Capital Management Limited 5,19 St        
    Kempen European Participations N.V. 5,09 St        
    Credit Suisse Fund Management S.A 2,98 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,96 St        
    Jürgen Hermann 0,19 St        
    Dr. Frank Zurlino 0,01 St        
    Barbara Stolz 0,01 St        
               
RIB Software AG 2,89 (St) Thomas Wolf 20,08 St 28,24 0,53 Capital Research and Management Company 7,31
    Capital Group Companies Inc. 6,4 St        
    Hans-Joachim Sander 4,58 St        
    SAP AG 4,28 St        
    Lagoda Investment Management LLC 3,19 St        
    Schroders plc 3 St        
    Henderson Global Investors Limited 2,97 St        
    Invesco Ltd. 2,95 St        
    FIL Investments International 2,88 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 2,16 St        
    UBS Global Asset Management GmbH 1,95 St        
    Michael Sauer 0,9 St        
               
Sartorius AG 8,89 (St) Erbengemeinschaft nach Horst Sartorius 50,1 St 25,68 0,94 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 2,65
  8,98 (Vz) Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. 30,01 St        
    Familienbesitz 5 St        
               
SMA Solar Technology AG   Pool SMA Solar Technology AG 25,2 St 7,60 -0,21 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 2,51
    Danfoss A/S 20 St        
    Peter Drews 4,76 St        
    Rainer Wettlaufer 4,76 St        
    Irene Cramer 4,75 St        
    Prof. Dr. Werner Kleinkauf 4,39 St        
               
Software AG 0,10 (St) Software AG Stiftung 31,59 St 21,34 -3,78 Shareholder Value Management AG 2,31
    FMR LLC 3,8 St        
    NEU Remo Stoffel 3,66 St        
    Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC 3,29 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 3,26 St        
    NEU Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 3,22 St        
    Deka Investment GmbH 3,16 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,15 St        
    NEU Shareholder Value Beteiligungen AG 2,3 St        
               
STRATEC Biomedical AG 0,10 (St) Herdor GmbH & Co. KG 9,66 St 23,96 -0,42 Threadneedle Asset Management Limited 4,45
    Ralf Leistner 9,55 St        
    Bettina Siegle 9,5 St        
    Tanja van Dinter 9,35 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 4,99 St        
    Montanaro Asset Management Ltd 4,77 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 3,06 St        
    Oppenheimer International Small Company Fund 3 St        
    Financière de l'Echiquier 2,96 St        
    Hermann Leistner 0,39 St        
    Doris Leistner 0,34 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 0,33 St        
               
Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG   Telefónica Germany Holdings Limited 62,1 St 3,00 0,14 T. Rowe Price Investment Services Inc. 0,70
    Citigroup Inc. 0,42 St        
    UBS AG 0,21 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 0,02 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0 St        
    HSBC Holdings plc 0 St        
               
United Internet AG 0,60 (St) Ralph Dommermuth 40 St 15,58 0,09 OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 2,49
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,96 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 2,84 St        
    Norbert Lang 0,22 St        
    Michael Scheeren 0,15 St        
    Robert Nikolaus Hoffmann 0,04 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,02 St        
               
Wirecard AG   Jupiter Asset Management Limited 6,27 St 44,54 0,09 Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Limited 5,13
    MB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH 6,09 St        
    Alken Luxembourg S.A. 4,94 St        
    T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. 3,15 St        
    Standard Life Investments Limited 3,03 St        
    Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company 2,97 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 2,94 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,39 St        
               
XING AG 0,22 (St) Burda Digital GmbH 50,51 St 27,48 -0,16 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 5,92
    Oppenheimer International Small Company Fund 5,07 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 5 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,97 St        
    Schroder Investment Management North America Ltd 4,97 St        
    Schroders plc 2,97 St        
               

 

 


 

 

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Capital Stage: failed takeover bid for Prokon

Capital Stage, provider of solar parks and wind farms has failed in its takeover bid for Prokon a wind turbine specialist, now in bankruptcy. Capital Stage announced that it had bid for approximately 95% of Prokon’s shareholding through a subsidiary company, the remaining 5% to be taken up by another investor. After examining the bid, the official receiver ruled that it be excluded from the procedures. Capital Stage has released no further details of their proposal. Capital Stage’s aim was to tap into Prokon’s expertise and client portfolio to strengthen its market position; the company management has confirmed its continued commitment to growth this year too, backed up by some 100 million Euros of equity capital. The company is presently mulling over a number of solar park and wind farm projects in Germany and abroad upwards of 200 megawatts .

In the meantime, the creditors of Prokon Regenerative Energien GmbH will have to choose between the two options presented to the official receiver at the end of May. The option involving company sell-off was won by the EnBW energy group. The alternative option involves establishing a cooperative.

 

Fuchs Petrolub: oiling the wheels of the automotive industry

Lubricant specialist Fuchs Petrolub has acqured Deutsche Pentosin-Werke. The price of the transaction has not been made public. This takeover enables MDax-listed Fuchs to broaden its range of products to include lubricants for the automobile industry, a field in which Deutsche Pentosin-Werke is an acknowledged market leader. The company, with its 80-year long history, employs 190 staff in two plants in Germany, and in a subsidiary company in Sao Paulo Brazil. DPW’s turnover for 2014 was 135 million Euros. The monopolies commission still has to approve the transaction.

 

Cancom: Filia up for grabs

IT concern Cancom SE and its subsidiary company Pironet NDH AG have opted to concentrate their future efforts for growth in Cloud Computing hence their decision to assign their entire holding in subsidiary company Imperia AG to investment company Allegra Capital. The negative consequences on group results is estimated at some 1.5 million Euros. Imperia AG is specialized in the production of software for content systems management.

 

 

 


 

 

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The German Mittelstand

Per le piccole PMI è difficile proteggere bene i brevetti

Nel suo report 2014 L’autorità tedesca per i brevetti e i marchi (Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt – DPAM) sostiene che i brevetti sono la chiave per avere più innovazione. Di fatto il numero delle registrazioni dei brevetti in Germania è aumentato lo scorso anno del 4,4 percento a 66.000. Ma spesso il foglio di carta non conta (paper doesn’t blush): nella realtà del business le piccole PMI non si sentono protette dai brevetti. Un documentario recentemente premiato trasmesso dal Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk dedicato alle cause per brevetti tra le PMI e i grandi gruppi lo specialista per questioni di brevetto, avv. Peter Hess dello studio Bardehle Pagenberg Partnerschaft mbH lo dice chiaramente: i brevetti non sono altro che tigri di carta.

L’unica via per difendersi contro il furto di idee è la causa legale. In genere questi procedimenti sono però molto impegnativi in termine di denaro e di tempo. Oltre alle spese legali il proprietario del brevetto deve anche pagare delle ricerche, delle perizie e la consulenza legale. Se la controparte è una grande aziende, l’attore è messo male. I gruppi e le grandi aziende amano giocare un jolly molto potente: l’impugnazione del brevetto esistente per nullità.

Dr. Christoph Ann, proprietario della cattedra per diritto economico e proprietà intellettuale presso la Technische Universität München, la sa lunga su questa cosa. Gli avversari potenti combattono la lite sul brevetto non solo ai tre livelli di ricorso fino alla Corte Federale (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH), ma sollevano anche una causa per nullità del brevetto davanti al Tribunale Federale per i brevetti e davanti allo stesso BGH. Questa procedura significa per il proprietario del brevetto che indipendentemente dalla situazione legale dovrà prepararsi ad una maratona giudiziaria estenuante. Ai fattori del tempo e del denaro si aggiunge l’insicurezza che incide in maniera massiccia sulla libertà di decisione del piccolo imprenditore nelle questioni di business.

Viene da chiedersi se molti brevetti non sono stati violati di proposito. In base alla situazione legale attuale i proprietari di brevetti del Mittelstand non hanno praticamente nessuna possibilità di difendersi. Per non rischiare l’esistenza della propria azienda, il “piccolo” cede alla pressione del “grande” vendendogli il suo brevetto, scegliendo quindi il male minore.

Il governo tedesco deve agire in fretta. Se vuole promuovere l’imprenditoria deve anche garantire il quadro legale per permettere ai piccoli imprenditori di proteggere la loro proprietà intellettuale. Non dobbiamo dimenticare che le idee innovative e creative tanto che alimentano la nostra economia nascono in genere da unità molto piccole – e sarebbe un peccato se a rimetterci fosse proprio quello che produce innovazione.

Buhlmann's Corner

Il 6 settembre 2015 la legge tedesca sulle società per azioni festeggerà il suo cinquantesimo compleanno. Fino agli anni novanta molte delle disposizioni contenute hanno influenzato anche altri paesi. Le regole codificate allora corrispondono effettivamente alle best practice of corporate governance di oggi. La divisione degli organi in consiglio di amministrazione e consiglio di sorveglianza costituisce la base per la cosiddetta paritätische Mitbestimmung, che prevede la copresenza di rappresentanti del capitale (ovvero dei datori di lavoro) e di rappresentanti dell’azienda (ovvero degli impiegati) nel consiglio di sorveglianza. Al di fuori della Germania la co-determinazione non è molto popolare.

Nonostante molte riforme, interventi ed adeguamenti, in particolare dagli anni 80 ad oggi (solo nel aprile 2015 ce ne sono stati due), le linee di principio di questa legge sono rimaste intatte e flessibili al punto tale da rivoltare il mondo.

Un ex-leader di sindacato dirige l’assemblea generale del (ancora) secondo produttore automobilistico del mondo, di un’azienda tedesca quotata nell’indice del DAX. Anni fa – non ricordo se era sotto Toni Schmücker (il salvatore di Audi) oppure sotto il suo successore Carl H. Hahn (jr) – una situazione simile è stata bloccata in ultimo. Questa volta invece no. Lo scorso mese la volontà dei capitalisti è stata gestita durante l’assemblea generale di Volkswagen da un ex-sindacalista – che risulta essere il presidente di assemblea più caro di tutto il 2015.

Adesso si leggono e sentono tante cose, certo. Bisogna comunque dire che non è successo niente di male e niente di grave. Berthold Huber (vice presidente del consiglio di sorveglianza di VW) è un uomo pragmatico e responsabile, è un leader di sindacato della prima generazione. Non avrei voluto immaginarmi un Frank Bsirske in una situazione del genere.

E’ vero, in VW gli orologi girano ancora come in un’azienda famigliare ed è anche vero che il cancelliere federale in carica (in questo momento Angela Merkel) continua ad avere il diritto di mandare dei rappresentanti nel consiglio di sorveglianza di VW. L’idea che adesso il CdA della Volkswagen sarà ristrutturato da un ex-sindacalista e dal presidente di un (nel caso specifico) potente comitato aziendale (works council) è davvero curiosa, a meno che a tenere le redini di nascosto non sia il presidente del CdA stesso (che presto se ne andrà).

L’assemblea generale ha funzionato bene. Si vede che guidare come prima esperienza un gruppo mondiale con un basso reddito nel settore core in mezzo ad una discussione provocatoria quanto precaria attraverso la sua assemblea generale non è poi così difficile. Chissà perché costa così tanto?

La Commerzbank potrebbe imparare la lezione: durante l’assemblea generale la discussione si è concentrata sui boni dei manager – paragonabile alla figlia che chiede alla mamma: “Stasera posso tornare un’ora più tardi dalla discoteca? Se mi dici di no, da oggi tornerò sempre con un’ora di ritardo”. 

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La Beiersdorf fa sapere di aver eletto Jasper Andersen come nuovo membro del CdA dal 18 maggio. Dopo alcuni mesi utili per conoscere l’azienda, il danese, che dal 1994 lavorava in Colgate-Palmolive, prenderà da settembre passo per passo la in mano l’area delle finanze, al momento ancora gestita da Ulrich Schmidt. Nato nel 1953 a Bevensen in Bassa Sassonia, Schmidt lascerà l’azienda il 31 marzo 2016 dopo trent’anni di attività nel gruppo di cosmetici per andare in pensione.

Hans Peter Ring è stato eletto come nuovo membro nel consiglio di sorveglianza di Bilfinger. L’ex CFO di EADS sostituisce Wolfgang Faden che il 14 novembre 2014 è stato eletto dall’assemblea generale come membro sostitutivo. A suo tempo prese il posto di Herbert Bodner. Avendo Bodner ricevuto un mandato nel CdA, il 9 settembre 2014 il suo mandato nel consiglio di sorveglianza fu temporaneamente congelato per concludersi definitivamente il 13 novembre 2014 in seguito alle sue dimissioni.

Roger A. Crock ha rinunciato al suo mandato nel CdA della Deutsche Post “per motivi personali”. Non essendosi la Deutsche Post ancora espresso sul potenziale successore di Crook, i compiti di Crook saranno svolti dal presidente del CdA Fran Appel fino alla nomina di un nuovo membro del CdA. Nel 2011 Crook aveva preso il posto di Hermann Ude, che aveva lasciato il gruppo da un momento all’altro.

Dal 1 giugno Michael Sen ricopreo il ruolo di CFO in E.On. L’ex CFO Klaus Schäfer dirigerà la Uniper che il 1 gennaio si staccerà dal gruppo energetico. Jorgen Kildahl lascerà l’azienda di comune accordo per potersi dedicare a nuove sfide al di fuori dal gruppo, mentre Mike Winkel lasciò il gruppo il 31 maggio per “motivi personali”.

Dall’inizio di aprile il consiglio di amministrazione della Fielmann conta cinque membri. Il nuovo membro si chiama Bastina Körber e sarà responsabile per le vendite. Al responsabile per controlling e IT Stefan Thies è passato adesso anche l’area delle risorse umane, finora gestita dal presidente del CdA, Günther Fielmann. Nel 2014 il contratto di Fielmann che continuerà ad occuparsi di strategia, marketing e espansione, è stato prolungato di altri 3 anni, fino alla metà del 2017.

Come previsto dallo statuto, il 30 Aprile Gerhard Schulze – presidente del consiglio di sorveglianza dal 2008 - ha lasciato per motivi di età la Gerresheimer, azienda produttrice di packaging per farmaci. A prendere il suo posto è Axel Herberg. Il fare ingresso come nuovo membro del consiglio di sorveglianza è la Signora Andrea Abt. L’ex manager di Siemens lavora adesso come consulente e membro professionale di consigli di sorveglianza.

Dopo solo due anni di mandato Michael Frenzel e Jan Martin Wicke si sono dimessi dal consiglio di sorveglianza della HOCHTIEF. Il consiglio di sorveglianza ha ringraziato Frenzel, per molti anni CEO die TUI, e Wicke, membro del CdA di Talanz, per il lavoro svolto con competenza e impegno. I due avrebbero accompagnato l’azienda in un periodo di cambiamento con spirito costruttivo e grande commitment. Il gruppo edilizio di Essen ha successivamente chiesto al tribunale competente di nominare Beate Bell e Patricia Geil Conrad nel suo consiglio di sorveglianza. Bell è molto esperta in revisione, compliance e gestione del rischio, mentre Geibel-Conrad è invitata a portare nel consiglio di sorveglianza le sue conoscenze nel settore finanziario. Il 27 aprile la HOCHTIEF ha fatto sapere che adesso tre degli otto rappresentanti sul banco del capitale sono donne. Nell’ottobre del 2014 anche Cristine Wolff è stata nominata dal tribunale.

Il 6 maggio l’assemblea generale della MAN a Hannover ha eletto Andreas Renschler nel suo consiglio di sorveglianza, e lo stesso organo lo ha eletto come suo presidente. Dopo la sua sconfitta nell lotta per il potere in Volkswagen alla fine di aprile Ferdinand Piech ha lasciato tutti i mandati nei consiglio di sorveglianza del grande gruppo e quindi anche nell’affiliata della VW. La presidenza di Renschler scadrà il 30 giugno 2016

Parallelamente ai cambi nel vertice della Metro, ci sarà anche un allargamento del CdA a cinque membri. Il nuovo membro si chiama Pieter Boone e occuperà dal 1 luglio il posto di CEO – Metro C&C. Gli altri membri sono Olaf Koch (presidente), Mark Frese (finanze), Pieter Haas (Media-Saturnn) e Heiko Hutmacher (personale).

Durante l’assemblea generale del 18 giugno a Mannheim Tina Müller è stata proposta agli azionista come candidata per il consiglio di sorveglianza. La manager di Opel seguirà Johannes Maret che lascia l’organo per suo desiderio. Müller è da agosto 2013 a capo del branding in Opel. Da giugno 2013 fa parte del consiglio di sorveglianza dell’affiliata del gruppo MLP, la MLP Finanzdienstleistungen.

Il 30 aprile VOLKSWAGEN ha comunicato l’ingresso di due donne, Louise Kiesling e Julia Kuhn-Piech, nel consiglio di sorveglianza formato da 20 persone. Il CdA del costruttore automobilistico ha chiesto al Tribunale competente di Braunschweig di sostituire con effetto immediato gli uscenti Ferdinand Piech e la moglie Ursula con due nipoti di Piech. Pur criticando la scelta facendo presente la mancanza di esperienza delle due donne nel settore automobilistico, il patriarca non si è formalmente opposto alla nomina. Lui avrebbe proposto Wolfgang Reitzle e Brigitte Ederer. Kuhn-Piech è dal 2014 nel consiglio di sorveglianza della MAN. Al momento non c’è ancora chiarezza su chi si assumerà la presidenza del CdA.

Durante l’assemblea generale della Airbus Grup dello scorso 27 maggio ad Amsterdam Maria Amparo Moraleda Martinez ha preso il posto di Josep Piqué i Camps come membro indipendente del consiglio di amministrazione. Il governo di Madrid aveva cercato di convincere Piqué a portare a fine il suo mandato cercando fino all’ultimo di evitare la nomina di Amparo Moraleda Martinez. Prima della votazione, VIP ha commentato durante la Q&A che “chi è capace di sopravvivere per diversi anni nella direzione potente di IBERDROLA, è pronto per accettare qualsiasi mandato.

Poche ore prima dell’assemblea generale la Deutsche Bank ha sorpreso con una mossa strategica al livello del personale. Co-CEO Anshu Jain ha allargato la sua posizione e il responsabile legale Chrsitan Sewing diventerà anche Head of Private and Business Clients. Il 20 maggio il consiglio di sorveglianza ha accolto il desiderio del 50enne Neske di sciogliere il suo contratto entro il 20 giugno. Si dice che la decisione sia stata presa di comune accordo tra lui e il consiglio di sorveglianza. anche dell’area il responsabile. Durante l’assemblea generale ha approvato con 3/5 dei voti l’operato del Co-CEO Jain. “Today we vote against the management, nevertheless it is the last chance for Mr. Jaim …. He has one year left”, commenta Ingo Speicher, portavoce dei Union Investment, in un intervista registrata durante la manifestazione da Bloomberg.

Il produttore di muletti Jungheinrich allarga il suo CdA a cinque membri. Oliver Lücke si occuperà dal 1 luglio dell’area Engeneering di Klaus-Dieter Rosenbach che diventerà responsabile per la nuova area dei sistemi logistici. Lücke dirige finora i siti produttivi di Norderstedt e Lüneburg.

Hartmut Mehdorn, da 17 anni nel consiglio di sorveglianza di SAP, si dimette dal suo incarico per motivi di salute andando definitivamente in pensione. La decisione è arrivata inaspettatamente. Il 20 maggio Mehdorn ha fatto sapere di ritirarsi da tutte le cariche pubbliche. A prendere il suo posto dovrebbe essere la Prof.ssa Gesche Joost che si occupa di ricerca sul design e insegna presso l’Università delle Arti a Berlino.

Nordex: partenza a sorpresa

Il presidente del CdA del costruttore di impianti eolici Nordex SE, Jürgen Weschky, ha lasciato senza avviso alla fine di maggio l’azienda, per motivi personali. Sotto la sua guida, dal 2012, l’azienda quotata nel TecDax è cresciuta fortemente riuscendo già nel 2013 a cambiare rotta. La successione di Keschky è adesso nelle mani d Lars Bondo Krogrsgaar, fino ora responsabile nel CdA per la distribuzione. Anche il CFP Bernard Schäferbarthold rimarrà nel CdA. Nordex fa sapere che da giugno il CdA sarà inoltre coadiuvato ad un cosiddetto Executive Committee. I dirigenti di diverse aree chiavi dovranno occuparsi sotto la guida del CEO Krogsgaard di strategia e di altri temi manageriali di alto livello.

Schaltbau: movimento nel CdA

Anche nella Schaltbau Holding AG, azienda quotata nel SDax specializzata in componenti per transportation technology  ci sono dei cambiamenti in atto: dal prossimo mese Ralf Klädtke dovrebbe entrare nel CdA, occupandosi della business unit del mobile transportation technology. Laureato in ingegneria aerospaziale, Klädtke ha occupato delle posizioni di guida in MAN,EADS e Carl Zeiss Optronics. In ultimo è stato amministratore delegato della Airbus DS Optronics GmbH che appartiene al gruppo Airbus.

Nel frattemp Dirk Löchner, il membro del CdA responsabile per lo sviluppo strategico e e amministratore delegato dell’affiliata Gebr. Bode, ha chiesto di a maggio di anticipare le sue dimissioni dalla squadra di alta direzione di Schaltbau. L’azienda fa sapere che Löchner vorrebbe occuparsi di altre cose al di fuori dal gruppo. Al momento resta comunque a disposizione della società e del gruppo in veste di consulente. Il portavoce del CdA Jürgen Cammann e il CFO Elisabeth Prigge restano nell’organo mantenendo le loro funzioni.

Stabilus: nuov ocontrollore

Il consiglio di sorveglianza della Stabilus S.A. si è separato dal suo membro Andi Klein. Nel 2010 Klein è entrato come rappresentante dell’azionista di maggioranza Triton nel comitato consultivo per poi - dopo l’ingresso in borsa dell’azienda quotata nel SDax nel 2014 – entrare nel consiglio di sorveglianza. A prendere il suo posto nel consiglio di controllo è Joachim Rauhut che fa parte del CdA della Wacker Chemie AG. L’ingegnere gestionale ha accompagnato l’ingresso in borsa della Wacker nel 2006, dopo aver occupato diverse posizioni di alto livello tra cui in Mannesmann e Krauss-Maffei. Gli altri membri del consiglio di sorveglianza sono Udo Stark, il suo vice Stephan Kessel e Nizar Ghoussaini.

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Capital News

Siltronic: pronti e via

La Siltronic AG, che fa parte della Wacker Chemie AG, prevede di fare il suo ingresso in borsa ancora prima della pausa estriva 2015. L’obiettivo è il Prime Standard della Borsa Titoli di Francoforte. A questo scopo il produttore di wafer in silicio puro per l’industria dei semiconduttori e il gruppo Wacker intendono di piazzare nuove azioni provenienti da un aumento di capitale e di vendere dei titoli facenti parte del portfolio della Wacker. La Siltronic fa sapere che l’offerta è rivolta a investitori privati e istituzionali in Germania e in Lussemburgo. Al livello internazionale l’azienda intende piazzare le azioni privatamente. I ricavi netti devono servire alla riduzione dei debiti. L’azienda attiva sul mercato internazionale e datore di lavoro di oltre 4000 persone non ha dato altre precisazioni.

Windeln.de: respirare aria di borsa

A maggio la Windeln.de, commerciante online di prodotti per neonati e bambini dei paesi a lingua tedesca, si è avvicinato alla borsa riscuotendo circa 211 milioni di Euro. Nata cinque anni fa, la startup è riuscita a piazzare d un prezzo di emissione di 18,50 Euro più di 11 millioni di azioni nel Prime Standard della Borsa Titoli di Francoforte. I titolo provengono per un valore di 5,4 milioni di Euro da un aumento di capitale e per 4,5 milioni di Euro da partecipazioni di azionisti disposti a cedere. L’azienda è riuscita a piazzare circa 1,5 milioni di azioni attraverso una distribuzione aggiuntiva. Dal ricavo dall’emissione 127 milioni di uro vanno direttamente nelle casse dell’azienda, il resto va ai fondatori e agli investitori precedenti. L’azienda fa comunque sapere che gli azionisti principali sono rimasti fedeli.

L’azienda è riuscita presto a farsi conoscere sulla platea internazionale, realizzando ad oggi quasi la metà del suo fatturato in Cina. Recentemente la Windeln.de ha rilevato il competitor ceco Feedo, dando slancio all’espansione nell’Europa dell’esta. L’ingresso in borsa deve servire per rinforzare la crescita. Ultimamente l’azienda ha realizzato un fatturato di circa 101 milioni di Euro. Alla fine dei conti le perdite ammontavano a circa 9,8 milioni di Euro – quasi 2,5 milioni di Euro in meno rispetto al 2013.

PNE Wind: denaro fresco per una nuova struttura

A metà maggio il progettista di parchi eolici PNE Wind AG è riuscito ad incassare con un aumento di capitale circa 9,5 milioni di Euro rinforzando in questo modo il capitale proprio da utilizzare per una ristrutturazione. L’azienda quotata nel Prime Standard ha emesso circa 4,6 milioni di azioni nuove ad un prezzo cad di 2,07 Euro. I titoli sono andati sul mercato nell’ambito di un piazzamento privato. PNE comunica di voler utilizzare i ricavi per finanziare l’allargamento di un modello di business che prevede una concentrazione di progetti in una società affiliata. Le quote di questo cosiddetto yieldco dovrebbero essere venduti a degli investitori possibilmente entro la fine del 2016, quando l’affiliata produce dei ricavi.

Zalando.se: più organizzati della luce

Con in testa l’idea di vendere le scarpe online l’azienda ha iniziato con un modello veramente basic: le flip flop. 7 anni più tardi, un giorno dopo la prima assemblea generale dopo l’IPO, la Zalando è salita nel MDax. L’assemblea è stata eccitante, con un pubblico misto tra giovani con capelli rasta e ex-CEO di un’azienda industriale d’acciaio e ferro quotata nel Dax. Il loro motto: imparare e ri-pensare, sempre.  

M & A

Capital Stage: l’offerta di acquisizione di Prokon è stata rifiutata

La Capital Stage, gestore di parchi solari e eolici, è fallita nel processo di offerta per la Prokon, azienda specializzata in energia eolica in fallimento. La Capital Stage ha fatto sapere di aver offerto attraverso voler rilevare attraverso una società affiliata il 95 per cento circa delle quote alla Prokon. Gli altri cinque per cento circa dovevano essere acquistati da un altro investitore. Dopo alcuni giorni di presa in esame dell’offerta da parte del curatore fallimentare l’azienda sarebbe stata esclusa dal procedimento. La Capital Stage non ha pubblicato dettagli più precisi della sua offerta. Fatto sta che la società aveva sperato di poter rinforzare la propria posizione grazie al portfolio e all’expertise della Prokon. Il management di Capital Stage ha fatto sapere di voler continuare a crescere anche quest’anno mettendo a disposizione circa 100 milioni di mezzi propri. Al momento l’azienda sta prendendo in esame diversi progetti solari e eolici sopra i 200 megawatt in Germania e all’estero.

Nel frattempo i creditori della Prokon Regenerative Energien GmbH si troveranno durante l’ assemblea indetta per l’inizio di luglio a dover scegliere tra due le due opzioni presentate alla fine di maggio del curatore fallimentare. Per quanto riguarda la soluzione vendita, l’appalto è andato al gruppo energetico EnBW. La seconda variante prevede invece la costituzione di una cooperativa.

Fuchs Petrolub: lubrificanti per il settore automotive

La Fuchs Petrolub, azienda quotata nel MDax specializzatta in lubrificanti, ha rilevato la Deutsche Pentosin-Werke. Il prezzo della transazione non è stato pubblicato. Con l’acquisizione il gruppo allarga la sua gamma di prodotti anche ai lubrificanti per l’industria automobilistica, dopo la Deutsche Pentosin-Werke è riconosciuta come produttore leader del mercato. L’azienda vanta 80 anni di storia, con 190 collaboratori e due sedi in Germania e una società affiliata a San Paolo in Brasile. Nel 2014 la DPW ha realizzato un fatturato di circa 135 milioni di Euro. L’autorità antitrust dovrà ancora approvare la compravendita.

Cancom: Affiliata da dare via

L’azienda IT Cancom SE e la sua affiliata Pironet NDH AG hanno deciso di rinforzare in futuro la loro attività nel Cloud Computing: per questo motivo cedono tutte le loro quote alla società affiliata Imperia AG all’investitore Allegra Capital. Si stima che l’effetto negativo sul risultato del gruppo si aggirerà intonro ai 1,5 milioni di Euro. Del prezzo della compravendita e di altri dettagli non si sa niente. La Imperia AG è uno specialista di software per sistemi di content management.

 

 

 

VIPsigh Shareholder ID: …….. Holdings in per cent
Companies Own-shares Notifiable shareholders Share Investment companies (KAGs) making disclosures*  
        Total Change Biggest KAG Share
               
MDAX              
               
Aareal Bank AG   Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Länder 6,5 St 36,33 -1,04 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 4,01
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5,43 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,8 St        
    NEU Dr. August Oetker Finanzierungs- und Beteiligungs GmbH 4,7 St        
    Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 3,04 St        
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,97 St        
    FMR LLC 2,82 St        
    NEU Basler Leben AG 2,7 St        
    NEU Deutscher Ring Krankenversicherungsverein a.G. 1,4 St        
    NEU Condor Lebensversicherung-AG 1,1 St        
               
Airbus Group N.V. 0,06 (St) Société de Gestion de Participations Aéronautiques-Sogepa 10,9 St 17,62 -0,58 Capital Research and Management Company 3,42
    KfW - Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau 10,9 St        
    Capital Group International Inc. 5,07 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,98 St        
    Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI) 4,1 St        
               
Aurubis AG   Salzgitter AG 25 St 21,99 0,23 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 2,84
    Delta Lloyd Asset Management N.V. 2,99 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,98 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,93 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,01 St        
    Vorstand 0,01 St        
               
Axel Springer SE   Axel Springer Gesellschaft für Publizistik GmbH & Co. 51,5 St 32,31 -0,56 Tweedy, Browne Fund Inc. 9,52
    Dr. Friede Springer 5,56 St        
    Dr. Mathias Döpfner 3,06 St        
    Vorstand 0,13 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,08 St        
               
Bertrandt AG 0,70 (St) Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft 28,97 St 22,62 -0,29 MainFirst SICAV 3,77
    Friedrich Boysen Holding GmbH 14,9 St        
    Management und Mitarbeiter 8,74 St        
    MainFirst SICAV 3,87 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 2,99 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,94 St        
    William Blair & Company, LLC 2,62 St        
               
Bilfinger SE 3,99 (St) Cevian Capital II GP Limited 25,62 St 24,79 -0,98 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,44
    Credit Suisse Group AG 3,66 St        
    Schroders plc 3,34 St        
    Athris Holding AG 3,04 St        
    DJE Investment S.A. 2,98 St        
    Delta Lloyd Asset Management N.V. 2,59 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 1,68 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,1 St        
               
Brenntag AG   Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd. 5,26 St 24,83 0,74 Threadneedle Asset Management Limited 3,47
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,04 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 5,03 St        
    Newton Management Limited 3,14 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3 St        
    T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. 2,99 St        
    Longview Partners LLP 1,03 St        
    UBS AG 1 St        
    Manning & Napier Advisors, LLC 0,96 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,43 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,14 St        
    Steven Edward Holland 0,02 St        
    William A. Fidler 0,02 St        
               
Celesio AG   Mc Kesson Corporation 75,92 St 3,83 -0,09 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 0,68
    Magnetar Financial LLC 3,14 St        
               
CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA 0,01 (St) Klaus-Peter Schulenberg 50,2 St 18,90 -0,10 Fidelity Managem.& Research Co. 2,18
    ING Groep N.V. 5,03 St        
    FMR LLC 2,97 St        
    Edmund Hug 0,02 St        
    Dr. Bernd Kundrun 0,02 St        
    Alexander Ruoff 0,01 St        
    Prof. Jobst W. Plog 0,01 St        
               
Deutsche Annington Immobilien SE   BlackRock, Inc. 8,2 St 10,67 2,15 MFS Massachusetts Financial Services Company 1,78
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 6 St        
    Lansdowne Partners Limited/Lansdowne Partners International Limited 5,01 St        
    The Wellcome Trust Ltd 4,52 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 4,08 St        
    Wellington Management Group LLP 3,18 St        
    Jeremy Coller 1,97 St        
    Guy Hands 1,86 St        
    Citigroup Inc. 1,5 St        
    Lion Residential Holdings S. à r.l. 0,87 St        
    Abu Dhabi Investment Authority 0,41 St        
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0,06 St        
               
Deutsche EuroShop AG   Familie Otto 16 St 16,25 -0,14 BlackRock AM Ire Ltd 1,39
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,1 St        
    Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung 2,99 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,28 St        
    Klaus Striebich 0,04 St        
    Manfred Zaß 0,02 St        
    Vorstand 0,02 St        
    Dr. Bernd Thiemann 0,01 St        
    Reiner Strecker 0,01 St        
               
Deutsche Wohnen AG   Sun Life Financial Inc. 9,94 St 32,95 0,35 MFS Massachusetts Financial Services Company 5,78
    BlackRock, Inc. 8,01 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 6,71 St        
    APG Asset Management N.V. 3,01 St        
    Capital Group International Inc. 2,96 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 2,91 St        
    Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe KdöR 2,24 St        
    UBS AG 1,16 St        
               
DMG MORI SEIKI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT   Mori Seiki Co., Ltd. 52,54 St 28,49 -2,14 DeAWM Investment GmbH 6,34
    Paul E. Singer 11,73 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,89 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,82 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,01 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 0,26 St        
               
Dürr AG   Heinz Dürr GmbH 25,2 St 21,50 -0,13 MainFirst SICAV 2,28
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,93 St        
    Heinz und Heide Dürr Stiftung 3,47 St        
    ALECTA PENSIONSFÖRSÄKRING 3,15 St        
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,97 St        
    Vorstand 0,6 St        
               
ElringKlinger AG   Familien Lechler 52,1 St 19,96 -0,30 Alken AM LLP (UK) 2,62
    NEU The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,1 St        
    NEU Baillie Gifford & Co. 3,07 St        
    MIPL Group Limited 3,01 St        
    Alken Luxembourg S.A. 2,96 St        
    Klinger B.V. 2,56 St        
               
Evonik Industries AG   RAG-Stiftung 67,9 St 1,55 -0,04 MainFirst SICAV 0,24
    CVC Capital Partners 17,9 St        
    Ellington Investments Pte. Ltd. 4,64 St        
               
Fielmann AG   KORVA SE 71,64 St 6,30 0,37 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 0,68
               
Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide 0,08 (St) Land Hessen 31,35 St 7,70 -0,09 First Eagle Funds (division of ASB Securities LLC) 1,09
    Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main Holding GmbH 20,02 St        
    Deutsche Lufthansa AG 8,45 St        
    RARE Infrastructure Limited 4,87 St        
    Lazard Asset Management LLC 2,88 St        
               
FUCHS PETROLUB SE   Familie Fuchs 52 St 16,61 0,31 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 2,38
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 5,2 St        
               
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft   Kuwait Investment Office 7,9 St 35,54 -0,10 Alecta pensionsförsäkring 4,86
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,29 St        
    NEU Standard Life Investments Limited 3,01 St        
    FMR LLC 2,99 St        
    Schroders plc 2,94 St        
               
Gerresheimer AG   Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC 7,14 St 39,95 -1,21 CI Investments Inc. 4,23
    ING Life Belgium nv 5,2 St        
    Black Creek Investment Management Inc. 4,96 St        
    Eton Park Overseas Fund, Ltd. 4,92 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,14 St        
    Edinburgh Partners Limited 3,11 St        
    WS Management LLLP 3,1 St        
    Old Mutual plc 3,01 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,99 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,96 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,93 St        
    Morgan Stanley 2,58 St        
               
GERRY WEBER International AG   Gerhard Weber 29,1 St 16,95 0,15 Fidelity Managem.& Research Co. 2,15
    Udo Hardieck 17,42 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3,12 St        
    FMR LLC 2,9 St        
    Ralf Weber 2,84 St        
    Charlotte Weber-Dresselhaus 0,17 St        
               
Hannover Rück SE   Talanx AG 50,22 St 15,09 -0,26 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,98
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,75 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,06 St        
               
HOCHTIEF AG 2,10 (St) Acs, Actividades de Construccion y Servicios S.A. 60,7 St 5,98 -0,18 Sparinvest DK 0,76
    Qatar Holdings LLC 11,1 St        
    Southeastern Asset Management, Inc. 2,98 St        
               
HUGO BOSS AG 1,97 (St) Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5,15 St 8,76 0,25 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 2,58
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 5,02 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,5 St        
    Zignago Holding S.p.A. 4,19 St        
    Alecta pensionsförsäkring, ömsesidigt 3,26 St        
    PFC S.r.l. 2,91 St        
    Tamburi Investment Partners S.p.A. 0,85 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,74 St        
    UniCredit S.p.A. 0,02 St        
               
Jungheinrich AG   LJH-Holding GmbH 50 St 28,39 -0,13 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 3,17
    WJH-Holding GmbH 50 St        
    Streubesitz 100 Vz        
               
Kabel Deutschland Holding AG   Vodafone Group Plc 76,57 St 5,13 -0,03 RBC Global Asset Management Inc. 0,72
    Paul E. Singer 13,48 St        
    Standard Life Investments Limited 2,75 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 1,25 St        
    Barclays PLC 0,02 St        
               
KION GROUP AG 0,17 (St) Weichai Power 38,25 St 15,33 0,36 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,95
    Pelham Long Short Master Fund Ltd 5,33 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 3,13 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 2,81 St        
    KION Management Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG 0,9 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,12 St        
               
Klöckner & Co SE   Franklin Templeton Investments Corp. 6,51 St 25,02 -0,69 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 3,59
    Interfer Holding GmbH 4,98 St        
    Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 3,06 St        
    Federated International Leaders Fund 3 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 2,87 St        
    AMUNDI S.A. 2,77 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,24 St        
    Source Markets plc 0,98 St        
    Prof. Dr. Dieter Hans Vogel 0,05 St        
               
KRONES AG   Familie Kronseder 52,06 St 16,69 -0,09 Oddo Asset Management 2,51
    Petra Schadeberg-Herrmann 4,16 St        
    Schadeberg GbR 3,28 St        
    ODDO ET CIE 3,27 St        
    Tweedy, Browne Company LLC 2,88 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,71 St        
               
KUKA AG   J.M. Voith GmbH & Co. Beteiligungen KG 25,1 St 16,45 -0,01 Franklin Templeton International Services S.A. 2,96
    Swoctem GmbH 10,02 St        
    AXA S.A. 4,74 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 3 St        
    York Capital Management Global Advisors, LLC. 2,67 St        
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 2,6 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,44 St        
    Guy P. Wyser-Pratte 0,43 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,22 St        
               
LEG Immobilien AG   BlackRock, Inc. 13,99 St 39,15 0,87 BlackRock (Luxembourg) S.A. 6,77
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 5,39 St        
    CBRE Clarion Securities LLC 5,35 St        
    NEU BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 3,22 St        
    Perry Luxco RE S.à r.l. 2,99 St        
    Ruffer LLP 2,99 St        
    Invesco Ltd. 2,98 St        
    Lansdowne Developed Markets Master Fund Limited 0,47 St        
               
Leoni AG   T. Rowe Price International, Inc. 5,04 St 24,92 -0,31 T. Rowe Price Investment Services Inc. 3,89
    State Street Corporation 2,98 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,96 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 0,66 St        
               
MAN SE   Volkswagen AG 75,28 St 5,41 -0,07 Old Mutual IM Ltd 2,49
    Truck & Bus GmbH 43,3 Vz        
    Volkswagen AG 26,46 Vz        
               
METRO AG   Haniel 24,996 St 11,75 -0,41 Franklin Templeton Investments 1,96
    Schmidt-Ruthenbeck 15,77 St        
    Otto Beisheim Holding GmbH 9,1 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 3,36 St        
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 3,06 St        
    Templeton Global Advisors Limited 3,04 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,16 St        
               
MTU Aero Engines AG 1,91 (St) The Capital Group Companies Inc. 10,04 St 36,05 0,60 Artisan Partners Funds, Inc. 3,69
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 5,77 St        
    Maverick Capital Ltd. 3,05 St        
    Oddo Asset Management 3,03 St        
    Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 2,99 St        
    Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC 2,98 St        
    Artisan Partners Limited Partnership 2,92 St        
    GIC Private Limited 2,77 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,83 St        
               
NORMA Group SE   Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 9,96 St 52,37 -0,38 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 4,48
    Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 5,34 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5,02 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 3,15 St        
    SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc. 3,05 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,05 St        
    AXA S.A. 3 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,99 St        
    Delta Lloyd N.V. 2,94 St        
    T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. 2,89 St        
    Vorstand 2,15 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,3 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 0,04 St        
               
OSRAM Licht AG   Siemens Beteiligungen Inland GmbH 17 St 14,06 -0,46 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 1,11
    FMR LLC 5,02 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 3,97 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,31 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,76 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,22 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,12 St        
               
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG 2,33 (St) Capital Research and Management Company 9,96 St 42,18 -0,76 Capital Research and Management Company 10,47
    BlackRock, Inc. 7,34 St        
    Invesco Ltd. 3 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,99 St        
    Capital Income Builder 2,95 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 2,36 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,34 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,21 St        
               
Rheinmetall AG 3,09 (St) NEU JPMorgan Chase & Co. 8,37 St 24,94 0,19 Harris Associates L.P. 3,94
    Wellington Management Group LLP 3,28 St        
    LSV Asset Management 3,03 St        
    Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 3,01 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,99 St        
    Harris Associates L.P. 2,8 St        
    Prudential PLC 2,74 St        
    Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC 2,71 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,06 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,84 St        
    Vorstand 0,14 St        
               
Rhön-Klinikum AG 0,03 (St) B. Braun Melsungen Aktiengesellschaft 18,01 St 40,58 -1,06 Alecta pensionsförsäkring 17,18
    Asklepios Kliniken GmbH 15,25 St        
    Eugen Münch 6,32 St        
    Ingeborg Münch 4,95 St        
    Old Mutual plc 4,17 St        
    Jamie Zimmermann 3,24 St        
    UBS AG 2,96 St        
    Alecta pensionsförsäkring, ömsesidigt 2,89 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,99 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 1,08 St        
    Maven Trading Ltd. 0,36 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,05 St        
               
RTL Group S.A. 0,76 (St) Bertelsmann Capital Holding GmbH 75,1 St 8,83 0,03 Capital Research and Management Company 1,28
               
Salzgitter AG 10,00 (St) Land Niedersachsen 26,5 St 14,79 -0,21 Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,13
               
STADA Arzneimittel AG 0,15 (St) Apotheker und Ärzte 11 St 18,80 -0,06 DeAWM Investment GmbH 3,74
    NEU Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 5,04 St        
    LSV Asset Management 3,05 St        
    Empyrean Capital Partners, LP 2,95 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,94 St        
    Gryphon Investment Counsel Inc. 2,93 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,36 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 1,37 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,41 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,01 St        
               
Südzucker AG   Süddeutsche Zuckerrüben-Verwertungs-Genossenschaft eG 52 St 6,59 -0,48 Sparinvest DK 0,70
    Zucker Invest GmbH 10 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,14 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,03 St        
               
Symrise AG   Sun Life Financial Inc. 9,06 St 33,25 -0,42 MFS Massachusetts Financial Services Company 3,76
    Horst-Otto Gerberding 5,88 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,09 St        
    Bankhaus Lampe KG 3,29 St        
    Jahr Holding GmbH & Co KG 3,05 St        
    MFS International Value Fund 3 St        
    Standard Life Investments Limited 2,99 St        
    Prudential PLC 2,97 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 2,96 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,93 St        
    Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 2,56 St        
               
TAG Immobilien AG 9,85 (St) Ruffer LLP 14,71 St 49,70 -2,28 Flossbach von Storch AG 11,48
    Flossbach von Storch Invest S.A. 10,01 St        
    Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Länder 9,95 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 9,82 St        
    Helaba Invest Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH 5,9 St        
    Taube Hodson Stonex Partners LLP 5,22 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 5,18 St        
    MFS International Value Fund 4,99 St        
    Capital Guardian Trust Company 3,3 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,06 St        
    Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd. 2,94 St        
    BlackRock Group 2,64 St        
    Dr. Lutz R. Ristow 1,5 St        
    Rolf Elgeti 0,07 St        
    Prof. Dr. Roland Frohne 0,04 St        
               
Talanx AG   HDI Haftpflichtverband der Deutschen Industrie V.a.G. 79 St 4,41 0,06 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,01
    Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company 6,49 St        
               
Wacker Chemie AG 4,75 (St) Dr. Alexander Wacker Familiengesellschaft mbH 60,39 St 10,24 -0,07 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 1,47
    Blue Elephant Holding GmbH 10,86 St        
               
Wincor Nixdorf AG 9,99 (St) Kiltearn Limited 7,11 St 33,39 -2,40 DeAWM Investment GmbH 5,30
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,58 St        
    Highclere International Investors LLP 3,09 St        
    Polaris Capital Management, LLC 3,06 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,92 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,91 St        
    William Blair & Company, LLC 2,8 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,23 St        
    Eckard Heidloff 0,02 St        
               
SDAX              
               
alstria office REIT-AG   CNP ASSURANCES 4,67 St 23,99 -0,05 Prudential Investments LLC 1,70
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 4,61 St        
    Brookfield Investment Management, Inc. 4,59 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,26 St        
    FMR LLC 3,01 St        
    JP Morgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,9 St        
    Morgan Stanley 2,72 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,7 St        
    Cohen & Steers, Inc. 2,62 St        
               
AMADEUS FIRE AG   MainFirst SICAV 9,99 St 41,03 -0,24 MainFirst SICAV 9,58
    FIL Limited 5,04 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 5,01 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 5 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,98 St        
    Lazard Frères Gestion 4,97 St        
    Matthias Ruhland 4,95 St        
    Rhine Alpha Stars 4,62 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 4,35 St        
    Standard Life Investments Ltd. 2,99 St        
    JP Morgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,74 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,35 St        
    Dr. Axel Endriss 0,12 St        
    Christoph Groß 0,1 St        
    Ulrike Bert 0,01 St        
               
BAUER AG   BAUER Stiftung 48,19 St 8,68 -0,18 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 1,60
    Vorstand 10,17 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 7,65 St        
    Henderson Global Investors Limited 3,04 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,73 St        
               
BayWa AG 0,06 (St) Bayerische Raiffeisen-Beteiligungs-AG 34,8 St 2,13 0,02 UBS Global Asset Managment GmbH 0,45
    Raiffeisen Agrar Invest GmbH 25,06 St        
               
Biotest AG   OGEL GmbH 50,03 St 28,72 0,06 Flossbach von Storch AG 6,92
    Kreissparkasse Biberach 17,33 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,95 St        
    Scherzer & Co. AG 0,81 St        
    Prof. Dr. Gregor Schulz 0,03 Vz        
    Dr. Michael Ramroth 0,03 Vz        
    Dr. Georg Floß 0,03 Vz        
    Dr. Bernhard Ehmer 0,03 Vz        
               
Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA   Evonik Industries AG 14,78 St 6,67 0,11 Capita Financial Managers Limited 1,14
    Bernd Geske 8,59 St        
    Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund 5,53 St        
    SIGNAL IDUNA Allgemeine Versicherung Aktiengesellschaft 5,43 St        
    PUMA SE 5 St        
    Odey Asset Management LLP 3,47 St        
    BlueBay Asset Management plc. 3,34 St        
               
Braas Monier Building Group S.A.   Monier Holdings S.C.A. 48,4 St 0,71 0,00 DWS Investment S.A. 0,35
    Wellington Management Group LLP 5,13 St        
               
Capital Stage AG   AMCO Service GmbH 22,01 St 8,80 0,00 INVESCO Asset Management Ireland Ltd. 2,30
    Dr. Liedtke Vermögensverwaltung GmbH 8,14 St        
    Blue Elephant Venture GmbH 7,25 St        
    Albert Büll 6,3 St        
    ETHENEA Independent Investment S.A. 2,98 St        
    RTG Beteiligungs GmbH 1,64 St        
    Dr. Jörn Kreke 1,4 St        
    Felix Goedhart 0,66 St        
    Dr. Zoltan Bognar 0,14 St        
               
CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA 2,28 (St) Erbengemeinschaft nach Herrn Senator h.c. Heinz Neumüller 27,37 St 13,74 -0,20 Sparinvest DK 2,52
    FIL Limited 2,98 St        
    Fidelity Funds SICAV 2,89 St        
    Sparinvest Holdings SE 2,74 St        
    CeWe Color Versorgungskasse e. V. 1,53 St        
    Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,9 St        
               
comdirect bank AG   Commerzbank AG 81,27 St 2,99 0,19 Shareholder Value Management AG 0,96
               
Delticom AG   Prüfer GmbH 25,03 St 21,30 1,07 Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 9,57
    Rainer Binder 25,01 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 6,21 St        
    EdgePoint Investment Group Inc. 5,04 St        
    Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb Inc. 5,02 St        
    Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 2,6 St        
               
Deutsche Beteiligungs AG   Dirk Roßmann 19,93 St 8,86 -0,28 JPMorgan Asset Management (Europe) S.a r.l. 1,50
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 5,23 St        
    Ricardo Portabella 5 St        
               
DEUTZ AG   AB Volvo 25 St 15,50 -0,53 Fidelity Investments Luxembourg S.A. (FIL) 3,81
    Old Mutual plc 3,1 St        
    FMR LLC 3,04 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,02 St        
    SKAGEN AS 2,99 St        
    FIL Limited 2,94 St        
    Artisan Partners Limited Partnership 2,91 St        
               
DIC Asset AG   Deutsche Immobilien Chancen-Gruppe 33,2 St 15,11 -0,43 Albrecht von Witzleben Asset Management 1,71
    solvia Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH 5,1 St        
    RAG-Stiftung 4,76 St        
    Ell Capital Management, Inc. 2,79 St        
    Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP 2,68 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,01 St        
               
DO Deutsche Office AG   Oaktree Capital Group Holdings GP, LLC 60,4 St 7,56 -0,13 BNP Paribas Investment Partners Luxembourg 0,92
    Ironsides Partners LLC 4,52 St        
    NEU Carmignac Gestion S.A. 3,07 St        
    Internationale Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH 2,92 St        
    Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe KdöR 2,89 St        
    UBS AG 0,19 St        
               
GESCO AG 0,01 (St) Stefan Heimöller 13,6 St 7,08 -0,85 Loys AG 1,29
    Investmentaktiengesellschaft für langfristige Investoren TGV 5,36 St        
    Vorstand 0,6 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,1 St        
               
GfK SE   GfK-Nürnberg e.V. 56,4 St 19,50 1,63 Franklin Templeton International Services S.A. 4,10
    Parvus Asset Management Europe Ltd. 4,97 St        
    Highclere International Investors LLP 3,13 St        
    FIL Limited 3,06 St        
    FMR LLC 2,99 St        
    Franklin Templeton Investment Management Limited 2,99 St        
    UBS AG 0,66 St        
    Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,03 St        
               
GRAMMER AG 2,86 (St) Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 5,18 St 26,00 0,04 DeAWM Investment GmbH 6,83
    Wynnefield Partners 5,17 St        
    EQMC Europe Development Capital Fund plc 5,1 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 5,02 St        
    Dimensional Holdings Inc. 3,01 St        
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,99 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 2,88 St        
    Source Markets plc 0,85 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,37 St        
               
GRENKELEASING AG   Grenke Beteiligung GmbH & Co. KG 42,64 St 27,62 0,26 Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Limited 5,31
    Jupiter Asset Management Limited 7,2 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 4,99 St        
    Mark Kindermann 0,36 St        
    Prof. Dr. Ernst-Moritz Lipp 0,22 St        
    Gilles Christ 0,05 St        
    Jörg Eicker 0,04 St        
    Florian Kai Schulte 0,02 St        
    Antje Leminsky 0,02 St        
    Erwin Staudt 0,01 St        
    Prof. Dr. Thilo Wörn 0,01 St        
               
HAMBORNER REIT AG   Deka Investment GmbH 9,09 St 11,29 -0,13 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 2,44
    Königreich Belgien 4,81 St        
    Dr. Theo Siegert 4,6 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 3,1 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,75 St        
    Ruffer LLP 2,64 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,31 St        
               
Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG   Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg 69,58 St 8,01 -0,05 First Eagle Funds (division of ASB Securities LLC) 4,67
    First Eagle Investment Management, LLC 5,002 St        
               
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG 0,06 (St) Ferd. Rüesch AG 9,02 St 17,09 -0,58 Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 6,29
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 7,45 St        
    UBS Group AG 3,14 St        
    Dimensional Holdings Inc. 3,01 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 0,87 St        
               
Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.   Gesellschafterfamilie 83,1 St 0,28 0,00 DeAWM Investment GmbH 0,26
    Citigroup Inc. 0,05 St        
               
Hornbach Holding AG   HORNBACH Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH 100 St 58,91 -0,12 First Eagle Funds (division of ASB Securities LLC) 38,66
               
Hornbach-Baumarkt-AG   HORNBACH HOLDING AG 76,4 St 3,16 0,02 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,57
    Aufsichtsrat 0,21 St        
    Vorstand 0,19 St        
               
INDUS Holding AG   Versicherungskammer Bayern 19,4 St 9,73 0,05 MainFirst SICAV 1,27
    Hans Joachim Selzer 6,4 St        
               
KWS SAAT SE   Familien Büchting/Arend Oetker/Giesecke 56,1 St 10,53 -0,10 DWS Invest Sicav 2,62
    Tessner Beteiligungs GmbH 15,11 St        
    Vorstand 0,26 St        
               
MLP AG   Manfred Lautenschläger 23,53 St 14,69 0,25 Franklin Templeton International Services S.A. 4,41
    Harris Associates L.P. 9,82 St        
    HDI Pensionskasse AG 9,48 St        
    FMR LLC 9,08 St        
    Barmenia Krankenversicherung a. G. 6,67 St        
    Allianz SE 6,27 St        
    Angelika Lautenschläger 6,03 St        
    Berenberg Bank, Joh. Berenberg Gossler & Co. KG 4,84 St        
    Schroders plc 3,07 St        
    AXA S.A. 2,99 St        
    Franklin Templeton Investment Funds 2,99 St        
    Dr. Peter Lütke-Bornefeld 0,14 St        
    Johannes Maret 0,09 St        
    Manfred Bauer 0,01 St        
               
PATRIZIA Immobilien AG   Wolfgang Egger 51,62 St 17,69 0,28 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 3,71
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 3,07 St        
    WA Holdings, Inc. 3,04 St        
    Klaus Schmitt 0,15 St        
               
PUMA SE 0,95 (St) SAPARDIS S.A. 75,12 St 2,44 -0,02 CARMIGNAC GESTION 0,27
    J.P. Morgan Markets Limited 3,19 St        
               
RATIONAL AG   Siegfried Meister 62,99 St 11,29 -0,03 Columbia Advisors, LLC 1,36
    Walter Kurtz 7,81 St        
    Allianz SE 2,99 St        
    Vorstand 0,03 St        
               
SAF-HOLLAND S.A.   Deutsche Bank AG 5,29 St 52,49 0,22 DeAWM Investment GmbH 9,60
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 5,24 St        
    FMR LLC 4,99 St        
    Management & Directors 3,03 St        
               
Schaltbau Holding AG 2,36 (St) Familie Dr. Jürgen Cammann 11,62 St 18,74 5,67 Shareholder Value Management AG 5,00
    Familie Zimmermann 11 St        
    Monolith Duitsland B.V. 6,7 St        
    BNY Mellon Service Kapitalanlage-Gesellschaft mbH 5 St        
    Kreissparkasse Biberach 3,05 St        
    Peter Jahrmarkt 0,08 St        
               
SGL Carbon SE 0,08 (St) SKion GmbH 27,46 St 1,88 -0,04 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 0,42
    Bayerische Motoren Werke AG 18,44 St        
    Volkswagen AG 9,92 St        
    Voith AG 6,8 St        
    Dr. Michael Majerus 0,09 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,03 St        
               
SHW AG   Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 5,31 St 38,96 -2,65 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 3,68
    Henderson Global Investors Limited 4,98 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 4,93 St        
    F&C Asset Management plc 4,38 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,57 St        
    NEU Franklin Templeton Investment Management Limited 3,33 St        
    UBS Group AG 3,13 St        
    FIL Limited 2,97 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,73 St        
    Schroders plc 2,72 St        
    Linz Textil Holding AG 2,65 St        
    JP Morgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,32 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 1,75 St        
               
Sixt SE   ES Asset Management and Services GmbH & Co. KG 60,08 St 10,59 -1,23 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,84
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 3,03 St        
               
Stabilus S.A.   JPMorgan Chase & Co. 6,25 St 7,61 0,00 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 2,86
    Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 5,01 St        
    Schroders plc 4,95 St        
    Management 1 St        
               
Ströer Media SE   Dirk Ströer 29,95 St 18,92 -0,19 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 5,97
    Udo Müller 24,22 St        
    Sambara Stiftung 5,73 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5,13 St        
    J O Hambro Capital Management Limited 2,91 St        
    HMI Capital, LLC 2,86 St        
    UBS AG 2,84 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,86 St        
    Christian Schmalzl 0,06 St        
               
SURTECO SE   Pool- und Familienbesitz 54,65 St 14,33 -0,18 Lazard Freres Gestion 3,23
    DLAM Holding B.V. 8,9 St        
    Barralina Asset Management GmbH 3,1 St        
    Lazard Freres Gestion S.A.S. 3,01 St        
    SICAV Objectif Small Caps Euro 3 St        
    Mitglieder des Aufsichtsrats 1,57 St        
    Vorstand 0,09 St        
               
TAKKT AG   Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH 50,28 St 30,38 2,15 Franklin Templeton International Services S.A. 5,73
    Franklin Templeton Investment Management Limited 4,99 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3,04 St        
    Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,01 St        
               
TLG IMMOBILIEN AG   LSREF II East AcquiCo S.à r.l. 18,48 St 1,20 0,00 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 1,17
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 5,61 St        
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0,22 St        
               
TOM TAILOR Holding AG   Guo Guangchang 23,16 St 29,75 -0,61 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 3,43
    Schroders plc 10,06 St        
    Morgan Finance S.A. 4,77 St        
    Wellington Management Group LLP 3,97 St        
    Vanguard Whitehall Funds 3,03 St        
    Old Mutual plc 3,02 St        
    Litman Gregory Masters International Fund 3,01 St        
    Kempen Capital Management N.V. 2,99 St        
    Henderson Group plc 2,98 St        
    T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. 2,72 St        
    Dieter Holzer 1,04 St        
    Thomas Schlytter-Henrichsen 0,13 St        
    Dr. Axel Rebien 0,08 St        
    Dr. Christoph Schug 0,07 St        
    Gerhard Wöhrl 0,06 St        
    Andreas W. Bauer 0,02 St        
               
Villeroy & Boch AG 11,98 (Vz) Luitwin Gisbert von Boch-Galhau 17,74 St 14,83 0,30 M&G Investment Management Ltd. 5,16
    Wendelin von Boch-Galhau 7,41 St        
    Franziskus von Boch-Galhau 7,14 St        
    Dr. Alexander von Boch-Galhau 4,16 St        
    Caroline de Schorlemer-d'Huart 3,16 St        
    Gabrielle de Schorlemer-de Theux 3,16 St        
    Christophe de Schorlemer 3,16 St        
    Vorstand 0,2 St        
               
Vossloh AG   Heinz Hermann Thiele 30,21 St 17,41 0,44 Lazard Freres Gestion 2,98
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 5,68 St        
    Carmignac Gestion S.A. 5 St        
    ETHENEA Independent Investment S.A. 4,88 St        
    Iskander Makhmudov 3,08 St        
    Lazard Freres Gestion S.A.S. 3,01 St        
    SICAV Objectif Small Caps Euro 3,01 St        
    Annette Oesterlee 1,89 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 1,43 St        
    Christine Piekenbrock-Oesterlee 0,06 St        
    Philipp Oesterlee 0,04 St        
    Cornelius Oesterlee 0,04 St        
               
VTG AG   Compagnie Européenne de Wagons S.à r.l. 43,84 St 6,92 0,25 La Banque Postale Asset Management (LBPAM) 0,93
    Andreas Goer 25,62 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,98 St        
    Samana Capital LP 2,22 St        
               
Wacker Neuson SE   Familie Wacker 33 St 5,18 0,22 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 0,80
    Familie Neunteufel 30 St        
    Vorstand 0,5 St        
               
WESTGRUND AG   Wecken & Cie. 40,86 St 7,37 3,43 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 3,32
    Quartenal Investment Limited 9,67 St        
    British Empire Securities and General Trust plc 6,46 St        
    Asset Value Investors Limited 4,8 St        
    NEU Syquant Capital 3,03 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 2,98 St        
    Swanepoel Limited 1,02 St        
               
Zalando SE   Verdere S.à.r.l 31,84 St 1,43 0,00 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,34
    Global Founders GmbH 11,2 St        
    Anders Holch Povlsen 9,37 St        
    Yuri Milner 7,06 St        
    HV Holtzbrinck Ventures Holding GmbH 5,13 St        
    Tengelmann Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungs GmbH 5,03 St        
    Gründer 3,71 St        
    Len Blavatnik 1,6 St        
    Rocket Internet AG 0,61 St        
               
ZEAL Network SE   Oliver Jaster 10,22 St 29,11 -3,18 Ethna Capital Partners S.A. 8,62
    Schroders plc 7,43 St        
    Marc Peters 4,82 St        
    LRI Invest S.A. 4,41 St        
    Jens Schumann 4,17 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 4,02 St        
    Vanguard International Explorer Fund 3,16 St        
    Credit Suisse Fund Management S.A 2,98 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,91 St        
    Farringdon Capital Management SA (FCML) 2,81 St        
    Dr. Hans Cornehl 0,68 St        
               
zooplus AG   Prof. Dr. Hubert Burda 18,86 St 18,41 0,01 Capital Research and Management Company 7,25
    RAG-Stiftung 14 St        
    Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb Inc. 10,01 St        
    SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc. 7,56 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 5,12 St        
    Wasatch Advisors, Inc. 4,56 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 3,85 St        
    Dr. Cornelius Patt 3,6 St        
    Management 1,74 St        

 

VIPsight - May 2015

 

COMPANIES

 

Südzucker: nothing sweet in being sued

Things are not going too well for Prime Standard-listed Südzucker AG, Germany’s biggest sugar producer. On the one hand the company is having to deal with depressed organic fuel and sugar prices and, on the other, being sued for damages by the confectionary industry for having charged them higher than market prices for their sugar purchases.

Turnover at approximately 6.8 thousand million Euros was down 10 percent over the previous year according to figures available at the end of February. Profit had also dipped from 622 to 180 million Euros. Management is also predicting further losses in the current 2015-16 financial year. Final numbers and forecasts will be published on May 21 together with the year-end accounts.

As if that weren’t enough, the EU law buttressing European sugar manufacturers against international competition expires in 2017 and, of top of that, there is an onslaught of claims lodged by confectionary producers demanding compensation for having been charged excessively high prices for their sugar purchases. Handelsblatt reports that Südzucker is already embroiled in three proceedings, one of which, worth 1.3 million was brought by Vivil.

In 2009, the monopolies commission found the three market leaders guilty of price fixing which last year cost Südzucker almost 200 million Euros in fines.

 

Bauer: scraping by

Another company far from pleased with last year’s performance is Bauer AG, the advanced infrastructure specialist. The increase in net income that the SDax-listed concern has begun to register derives mainly from the sale of a subsidiary company. Bauer is, however, expecting to pay out a dividend.

The consolidated group income is up by 3.7 percent and stands at 1.56 thousand million Euros. The income that the company has generated of almost 16 million Euros brings it back to profitability, also taking last year’s posted loss of 19 million Euros into account. Shareholders will be getting a dividend of 0.15 Euros per share. The sale of a 21 percent stake to an Omani-based subsidiary company brought 37 million Euros to Bauer’s coffers when it was struggling to counteract restructuring costs of the ambient sector, as well as economic problems having to do with a project in the USA and a fall in sales to clients in the mining industry.

With orders in hand now totalling some 753 million Euros, the company is fast approaching the previous year’s figure. Management is of the opinion that without the crisis in Russia and the sharp fall in oil prices, income would be even higher. The target set for this year’s turnover is roughly 1.8 thousand million Euros and earnings after tax should be in the region of 18 to 23 million Euros. EBIT is expected to be 75 million Euros. Seasonal variants mean first quarter losses.

 

Indus: Expansion

In a communiqué, Indus AG has notified having surpassed its targets for 2014. The SDax-listed holding company’s turnover is up 5.8 percent and now stands at a record 1.3 thousand million Euros, despite the unfavourable economic climate in Germany. Earnings of 127 million Euros are also up on the previous year’s 118 million Euros and earnings after tax – said to be 4 million Euros – are still at a healthy 63 million Euros, only 1 million less than the previous year’s 64 million, despite the consequences – said to be around 4 million Euros – of the closure of one of its companies. The company has decided to increase the dividend from 1.10 to 1.20 Euros per share.

Indus concluded no fewer than five acquisitions in 2014, bolstering the areas of medical and health-care technology, as well as in machine tools and plant to the tune, last year, of 97 million Euros in investment. Handelsblatt reports that Indus is oriented towards further acquisitions and is presently negotiating two or three transactions. Its other objective is getting an MDax listing. This financial year, Indus has forecast 1.3 thousand million Euros turnover and an EBIT of between 125 and 130 million Euros. 

 

 


 

 

The annual shareholders' meeting season is nearing its end

 

In Germany, the highlights of this year's season surely included the shareholders' meetings of Deutsche Bank and Adidas,though interesting observations could be made at other shareholders' meetings as well.

An outstanding example was the Deutsche Telekom. The 2500 attendees not only got to enjoy a professional performance by the chairman of the board,: but more importantly an open and appropriate communication at eye level. The supervisory board and management board used the same speaker's desk as the shareholders. The communication at eye level was also reflected in the detailed answers provided to the 152 questions submitted during the meeting.

Another excellent example was the Vossloh shareholders' meeting. The company is in the midst of a restructuring phase, which is due in part to mistakes made by the previous management board. Despite that, the chairman of the board recommended the formal approval of the actions of the members of the previous board. The VIP representative was unable to extrapolate the necessary information from the annual report, nor did he find it anywhere in the explanations of the management board to support that. The request to both the supervisory and management boards to justify their recommendation resulted in the removal of the vote of  approval from the agenda and the  postponement of the vote to a yet to be determined date.

In general, it was noted that annual shareholders' meetings have significantly increased in importance as communications tools for shareholders in 2014; and it's definitely not a one way street. Two developments during this year's season appear especially significant. Corporations are more willing to seek assessments from shareholders' associations, such as VIP, for major decisions prior to their implementation or presentation at the shareholders' meeting. And investors are more critical than in previous years when it comes to approving the actions of members of the board.

Author: Hans-Hermann Mindermann

 

 


 

 

The German Mittelstand

 

According to a recent survey, it emerged that one in every five researchers in academia is thinking of setting up in business. Conducted by the Institut für Mittelstandsforschung of Bonn among 6000 researchers in 73 universities, the survey was viewed positively as regards German SMEs; the establishment of a new company is “a very important step in the constant renewal necessary to the implementation of our economic policies” commented Dr. Jörg Zeugner, Chief Economist of the KfW banking group. Researchers possess the innovative knowledge that constitutes a perfect base for launching start-ups in the field of technology. The path between mulling the idea and actually setting up is often fraught with hazards and risks; the pioneering spirit is often stifled by a need for security. The current edition of "Mannheimer Gründungspanel" is a survey by the Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) and Creditreform Wirtschaftsforschung according to which more than 20 percent of young companies set up in Germany between 2010 and 2013, is treated by at least one of the founders as a second job – they make their living doing something else.

This is especially true of companies set up by researchers, of whom a higher than average percentage will rely on another source for their livelihood, and who develop their start-up alongside it.

48% of companies with a researcher among the founders is developed as a sideline, and in start-ups with a high technology content, the figure quoted is said to be no less than 71 percent. The findings of the survey coincide with results obtained by research conducted by KfW. In 2014, the number of recently launched companies rose by 12 percent in Germany ­mainly as the result of the sideline option.

German research centres are clearly highly fertile terrain for the development of innovative high-tech products. In developing these to industrialisation and marketing, German universities and research centres work as a team with funding earmarked for start-ups. This bridge between science and economics ought to lead to more companies being set up as a main activity. Being able to count on a reliable source of finance is essential, but it is even more important that the management team be made up of members who, in addition to scientific knowledge should be familiar with financial matters and have awareness on how the market works. Many start-up companies that get launched on the new market are not short of money but have no skills in creating sales networks able to take the product on to the market.

One example of a fortuitous combination of good luck, financial expertise, entrepreneurial courage and innovative know-how is the biotech company Biofrontera. Set up in 1997 by a scientist, it was the first small German biotech company to be authorized to develop and market a product in accordance with the centralized European procedure to combat skin cancer. This medication is now on sale in Europe and Is currently nearing FDA approval for sale in the United States. 

 

 


 

 

Buhlmann's Corner

 

The German Federal Republic is still a better shareholder, and it shows

April 30 – the meeting of the shareholders of Commerzbank, the bank that “from Lehman onwards” hasn’t paid out a cent in dividends but has instead requested ten or so (depending on which brand of arithmetic you use) share capital increases. The State of Germany, currently owner of 17% of the bank, was invited to the meeting just like every other shareholder..

So the state sent its representative to Frankfurt. No faceless bureaucrat nor, by contrast to previous occasions did it delegate the company to vote for it by proxy. A week before the AGM, the media usually has a fairly clear idea as to how the voting will go. After the votes on item 9 on the agenda had been counted, it was obvious that the German Federal Republic had said “no”.

The fact that the point at issue was an increase in bonuses for bank employees, and the exploitation of an opting out provided by law (The decision shall be approved by a majority of at least 66% of the votes submitted, provided that at least 50% of the voting rights are represented when the decision is taken, or by a majority of at least 75% of the votes submitted.) is of little importance just as of little importance was the bank’s nota bene “we’re asking for your blessing but just so’s you know if we don’t get it we’ll go ahead regardless“. In the event, the motion was denied by 64.6% of votes and 45.5% of voting rights present.

So how does that make the State of Germany a better shareholder? Because it’s there, it shows its face, it takes the items on the agenda and the votes seriously, because it put a lot of thought into its votes beforehand, and it checked to see if and how its votes had reached the ballot box. And that is the heart of the issue Who ever checks to see if his/her votes were counted?

There is no shortage of examples:

Last year, an important MDax-listed group with a vast shareholding had to make do with a 19% presence of voting rights..

In IBEX 35 we have witnessed the mathematical impossibility of the presence of voting rights in excess of 100%. Unfortunately, though the attendance fees promised didn’t quite trickle down to the bank account of the shareholder, who still has no way of knowing or finding out about his voting rights .

A resolution passed by the AGM of another company was erroneous because the representative of several percent of voting rights had unwittingly cast his votes wrongly.

Two years ago an MDax listed company found its ballot box mistakenly bereft of three quarters of the votes that had been sent in

In one Finnish Euro-listed company, voting is by acclamation.

I can remember one instance of thirty years ago when the decision to salvage a company failed because the bank’s representative mistakenly voted one way instead of another and the company went bankrupt shortly after..

My belief is that the German State is a better shareholder because it is more conscientious about managing third parties’ money and because its sponsor – the German taxpayer – could bring it to book to face its responsibilities.

But shouldn’t ETFs (exchange trading funds), institutional investors and pension funds be concerned about this too? 

 

 


 

 

ACTIONS CORNER

 

Daimler has been sanctioned in China to the tune of 53 million Euros for price fixing aganst a background of price manpulation in concert with certain Mercedes retailers in the province of Jiangsu. The monopolies commission ruled that the Mercedes Benz brand compact cars were in violation of the law on unfair competition to the detriment of consumers. The auto manufacturer allegedly fixed the minimum prices not only for spare parts but also for E and S class automobiles. The Chinese authorities have been monitoring the price policies implemented by manufacturers and other companies in the automobile industry since last year. In addition to BMW and Audi, the spotlight has been turned on Chrysler and other suppliers, some from Japan.

 

 

 

In a note dated April 23, NYDFS, the New York financial watchdog announced that Deutsche Bank is to disburse 2.5 thousand million dollars (2.33 thousand million Euros ) to call off the investigation into interest manipulation. One division of the bank had confessed in a US court of law to fraudulent conduct in LIBOR manipulation. The bank will pay NYDFS 600 million Dollars, 800 million Dollars to CFTC, the stock-market supervisory body, 775 million Dollars to the US Justice Department and 227 million pounds (340 million Dollars) to the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority.

 

 


 

 

Politics

 

The federal Government favours curtailing auditor mandates

The Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection has tabled a draft measure for aligning the commercial and company laws concerning auditors with European directives.

European directives demand that auditors follow an external rotation system, and no mandate may grant any auditor more than 10 years, the mandatory auditor rotation period. If on June 16 an auditor’s mandate is for fewer than 11 successive years, the incumbent auditor may only be confirmed until the expiry date of the mandatory auditor rotation period. The deadline for conversion into national law is 17 June 2016. Member States have the right to shorten the mandatory rotation period or, in certain circumstances allow Public Interest Entities to extend the rotation period to a maximum of 20 years if a public tender takes place on expiry of the 10 year period or 24 years where a joint auditor is appointed. The draft tabled by the German Ministry of Justice ensures that the option rights granted by Brussels be guaranteed at national level thus making the full scope of the legislation available as widely as possible.

 

RWE crisis deepens

According to Peter Terium head of the RWE group, 17 of their 20 coal-fired power stations fulfil liability conditions for payment of the duty set by the German Ministry of the Economy for old coal-fired power stations. Introduction of this duty would almost inevitably lead to their immediate closure. The Essen-based group is Germany’s largest producer of coal-fired, environment-hostile energy. The share price is conditioned by this pressure, revenue accrued in companies of this kind are plummeting and such a fiscal millstone increasingly discourages any investment for conversion towards renewable energy. “The industry framework for the traditional production of electricity is deteriorating at such a rate that the group is finding it hard to respond adequately” remarked the CEO during the AGM of April 23. Another item for discussion was the call for an increase in share capital and the amount of the dividend. Apparently, the state fund of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi has announced its intention to purchase 10 percent of the German energy colossus, which would reduce the quota held by municipalities to less than 20 percent because of their inability to contribute fresh capital. This would cost them not only a seat on the Supervisory Board but also the fiscal benefits they enjoy as regards dividends. In conclusion, the present chair of the Supervisory Board has announced his intention to resign next year.  

 

 


 

 

People

 

At their next AGM on May 21, Deutsche Telekom shareholders are expected to elect Michael Kaschke as a new member to the company’s Supervisory Board. Kaschke, CEO of Carl Zeiss, is proposed to replace Ines Kolmsee who will shortly join the board of management of EWE. The reason for Kolmsee’s resignation lies in a presumed conflict of interest; an EWE energy group subsidiary is a telecommunication service provider.

 

Rainer Klug has been appointed to the management board of Drägerwerk of Lubeck, the medical technology and security specialist, and will take on the responsibilities previously held by Herbert Fehrecke who resigned as expected on March 31 to go into retirement. On March 25, the company announced that Klug began his career in the field of industrial technology and processes with KSB.

 

Michel Perraudin is set to become the new chair of the Supervisory Board of Hugo Boss. On April 1, the group announced that the former member of the Adidas board of management, and long-time partner in McKinsey, will be proposed to the shareholders’ AGM scheduled for May 12 next as chair of the Supervisory Board of the garment manufacturer. At the same time Kirsten Kistermann-Christophe, Axel Salzmann and Hermann Waldemer are standing for election to the future Supervisory Board. Kistermann-Christophe, Head of Equity Advisory Germany with Société Générale comes with thirty years of experience in investment banking and consultancy. Salzmann, CFO of Bilfinger, and Waldemer, for many years CFO with Philip Morris International will make major contributions to the company, above all with their knowledge of the media and of consumer goods. In addition to Gaetano and Luca Marzotto representing the Marzotto interest, the Supervisory Board will therefore have a further four independent members on the shareholders’ benches. Hellmut Albrecht who has chaired the present Supervisory Board since 2008 and Klaus Maier will resign their seats at the natural expiry date, namely the day of the AGM. Neither will the members who stand in representation of Permira, Damon Marcus Buffini and Martin Weckwerth, stand for re-election. The private equity company sold its share quota back to Boss in March.

 

With effect from the conclusion of the next AGM on June 24, Nathan James Brown will resign his mandate to the Supervisory Board of LEG Immobilien. The CFO of Perry Capital UK has been on the Supervisory Board since 2 January 2013. The Supervisory Board is proposing thirty-nine year old Natalie C. Hayday as new member. Hayday has worked with Goldman Sachs and UBS Warburg.

 

Werner Brandt has announced his intention to enter the running for one last term as chair of the Supervisory Board of QIAGEN on June 23. The former SAP CFO who has been on the Supervisory Board since 2007 states that his decision stems from professional and personal commitments. He will maintain office until the AGM in June 2016 when he will no longer stand for re-election .

 

Udo Faulhaber will take over the helm of sales for QSC, the IT provider in Cologne, presently in difficulty, by taking over the area of responsibility that up to the end of April, had been led by Henning Reinecke. With Faulhaber the company is expected to boost its dialogue with business clients for whom the TecDax-listed group aims at becoming the first-choice provider for Cloud services. Felix Höger, who up till 31 December 2014 was chair of the Pironet NDH management board, will join the QSC management board as head of technology and operations. Höger launched NDH in 1995 when still an undergraduate, and merged it in 2000 with Pironet, today PironetNdH. Up to now, Faulhaber, who will attend to the future business developments of QSC until the arrival of Höger, was also with PironetNdH.

 

Shareholders of TecDax-listed Software will be called upon to elect a new, more compact Supervisory Board at the AGM on May 30. The future weighting of the Supervisory Board make-up will no longer be equal; the number of members will halved from 12 to 6. In accordance with the law on third-party participation, four members of the Supervisory Board will represent the capital, and two members the company staff. The new candidates include Eun-Kyung Park who has been on the management board of ProSiebenSat1 in Germany since 2014 and Markus Ziener from the management board of Software AG Stiftung, that up to now has been represented by Heinz Otto Geidt. Probable departures from the board in addition to the former representative of the major shareholder include Prof. Willi Berchtold, Anke Schäferkordt and Prof. Hermann Requardt.

 

In a communiqué dated April 23, TecDax-listed United Internet announced that Frank Krause has been appointed CFO to replace Norbert Lang who is resigning with effect from June 30 next. Lang joined the Internet company 21 years ago and has been its CFO for 13 years. Until recently, Krause was a member of Vodafone Deutschland’s board of management with responsibility for Strategy & Corporate Development.

 

April 25. Ferdinand Piech tendered his resignation, effect immediate, from the Supervisory Board of VOLKSWAGEN. His wife, Ursula Piech also resigned. Piech’s vice chair on the Supervisory Board, BertholdHuber, will replace him until a new chair can be elected. A Supervisory Board joint communiqué stated that Piech’s resignation was the consequence of serious disagreements with the Board.

 

Curasan: putting its finances in order

Medical product manufacturer Curasan AG has a new head of investor relations. Ingo Middelmenne has been invited to reorganize and reposition the General Standard-listed company’s status on the capital market. Middelmenne began his career in investment banking with HSBC. He later held managerial positions in investor relations in two listed companies before setting up Middelmenne & Cie. in Munich in 2007 specialising in consultancy for companies with temporary staff at management level. As a freelancer he provided consultancy to many SMEs and groups in their transactions on the capital market and on how to communicate on the capital market. Middelmenne will work under Michael Schlenk, CEO of Curasan since 2014, in plotting the new company orientation.

 

Tomorrow Focus: hello goodbye

To begin with, it seemed that Tomorrow Focus’s CEO’s contract, expiry date 2016 would not be renewed. Now, the Prime Standard-listed company has announced that by common consent, CEO Toon Bouten will leave the company at the end of July. Bouten joined the company in 2013 to succeed Stefan Winners who had joined the board of management of the parent company Huber Burda Media. As of today, the company has presented no candidate for the CEO slot.

 

Euromicron: Board of Management full house

The Supervisory Board of software house Euromicron AG has appointed two new members to the board of management after dismissing the last CEO Willbald Späth last May for errors in the accounts. Bettina Meyer has taken on the position of CEO and CFO of the Prime Standard-listed telecommunications company. Up to now, she had been head of the company’s legal department but she began her career in Deutsche Bank working in risk management. In addition to financial and legal matters, her area of activity on the board of management will encompass human resources, compliance and auditing.

The new COO, Jürgen Hansjosten, was managing director of Euromicron Networks GmbH and boasts more than 20 years of experience in telecommunications in posts held in Siemens, Adva Optical Networking and TeraGate. Meyer and Hansjosten will work as a team with Thomas Hoffmann, interim chair of the board of management and who will now be the board of management head of strategy, corporate marketing, IT, M&A and communications on the capital market.

 

Sixt: CFO in the lead-up to market listing

Sixt Leasing AG has had a new CFO since April. Björn Waldow is responsible for finance, accounts and control, as well as for investor relations, risk management, auditing, legal and compliance. Waldow has been with the Sixt group since 2010, handling acquisitions and risk management. He has also held posts in Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and Deutsche Bank. Waldow’s position is now in support to CEO Rudolf Rizzoli. Sixt’s leasing subsidiary, the SDax-listed car-rental concern, is oriented towards stock-market flotation. 

 

 


 

 

Campus

 

Once again, former Supervisory Board chair Piech gets more than anybody

Frankfurt-based HKB group has announced that 2014 remuneration for the chairpersons of the 30 DAX-listed companies had risen by 6.6% and now stood at 390,000 Euros. Most of the increase appears in the fixed and attendance fees, and this turn of events was accompanied by a reduction in short-term variables. In the meantime 14 of the 30 DAX-listed group of companies shifted to fixed emoluments. An additional two companies, SAP and Heidelberg Cement also announced their intention of adopting this system in 2015. Future emoluments paid to Supervisory Board members will become progressively unrelated to the success or otherwise of their company. Appearances gave the impression that there was an enormous gap between the highest and the lowest paid. Last year the highest figure went to Ferdinand Piech who recently resigned as chair of the Supervisory Board at Volkswagen; his total remuneration of 1.48 million Euros was the biggest amount paid out since 2006 when the law obliging companies to publish the amounts they pay their top management came into force.

 

Record dividends for ever fewer shareholders

Deutsche Schutzvereinigung für Wertpapierbesitz (DSW) has announced that the 620 German stock market-listed companies will be paying out a record dividend of 41.7 thousand million Euros in 2015, beating the 2008 highpoint of 38.2 thousand million Euros by 9.2 percent and an improvement on 2014 by no less than 13.4 percent. Year on year, almost one third of the DAX, MDAX, TecDAX and SDAX-listed companies are increasing their percentage to be paid out compared to 2014. The number of German savers who are interested in making cash investments in stocks and shares are very few and they will be happy with this bonanza is the wry comment by DSW. The number of shareholders has fallen from 4.5 million in 2014 to 4.1 million today despite a constant rise in share listings. Some 64 percent of the stock of DAX-listed companies is held by foreign investors. Within the DAX group this year, Allianz takes the King Midas slot with 3.13 thousand million Euros followed by Siemens (2.91 thousand million Euros) Daimler is third with 2.62 thousand million.

 

 


 

 

Capital News

 

CTS Eventim: upswing

The CTS Eventim AG ticket sales organization recently migrated from the SDax index to the MDax-listing of the mid-sized groups where a vacancy had emerged after the departure of Tui. At present, the company, which has been traded since 2000, is setting its sights on the export market, in particular Latin America and Russia. Eventem announced that it has begun selling tickets for the2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and, furthermore, that it was recently commissioned for the ticketing for the Formula 1 event in Sochi in October. Last year Eventim posted a turnover of approximately 690 million Euros and a pre-tax revenue of some 121 million Euros.

 

DIC Asset: new bonds

La SDax-listed DIC Asset AG, has increased its September 2014 bond with a private placement of 50 million Euros. The volume of the real estate company’s bond is now up to 175 million Euros and, as originally planned, will fall due in September. The shares, which will be traded as Entry Standard on the Frankfurt bourse from the end of April onwards, and the company bonds listed as Prime Standard should proceed towards unification in June at the current price. The net revenue accruing from the placement is earmarked for repaying bank loans.

 

Mologen: resources for research

An increase in capital in April assured Prime Standard-listed Molgen AG revenue of some 28 million Euros. The Prime Standard-listed bio-tech concern issued 5,657,875 new shares to both German and international investors and at 5 Euros per share, existing shareholders were given indirect right of first refusal for 2.8 million new shares. The company placed a further 450,000 shares with existing shareholders by warrant and the remainder went to new investors by international private placement. Share capital increased by capital measure to over 22.6 million Euros. And the revenue of the transactions will be used to fund current clinical studies.

 


 

 

Share ID Petrobas - ISIN BRPETRACNOR9

 

domicile investment_company asset_manager report_date 2014_2 2014_1 2013_2 2013_1 2012_2 2012_1
St
Deutschland Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 30-Jan-15 0 0 0 0 138.000 186.000
ADR
Deutschland PRIMA Management AG ACATIS Investment GmbH 30-Jun-14   0 0 0 0 12.000
Deutschland Adviser I Funds Albrech & Cie Vermögensverwaltung AG 31-Aug-14 0 0 0 21.500 31.000 19.000
Deutschland Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 30-Jun-14   122.000 162.000 162.000 0 0
Deutschland Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 31-Dez-14 0 0 0 0 0 11.035
Deutschland Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 31-Dez-14 0 0 0 0 0 16.658
Deutschland Ampega Investment AG Ampega Investment AG 30-Sep-14 0 0 0 0 0 22.100
Deutschland AmpegaGerling Investment GmbH AmpegaGerling Investment GmbH 31-Dez-14 0 0 0 0 750 750
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 31-Dez-14   0 0 0 0 0
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 31-Dez-14 6.700   0 0 0 0
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 31-Dez-14 18.800 0 0 0 0 0
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 31-Dez-14 8.800 0 0 0 0 0
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 31-Dez-14 58.000 0 0 0 0 0
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 31-Dez-14 53.000 0 0 0 0 0
Deutschland Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 30-Jan-15 0 180.000 0 0 0 0
Deutschland Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 30-Jan-15 188.000 0 0 0 0 0
Deutschland Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 30-Jan-15 0 0 0 85.000 0 0
Deutschland Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 30-Jan-15 0 25.000 0 0 0 0
Deutschland Deutsche Postbank Vermögens-Management S.A. Deutsche Postbank Financial Services GmbH 30-Jan-15 0 0 0 0 0 110.000
Deutschland Frankfurt-Trust Investment-Gesellschaft mbH Frankfurt-Trust Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 30-Sep-14 0 0 0 0 0 50.000
Deutschland FG&W Fund Franzen, Gerber & Westphalen Asset Management GmbH 31-Mrz-14   35.000 0 0 0 0
Deutschland ARBOR INVEST Huber, Reuss & Kollegen Vermögensverwaltung GmbH 30-Jun-14   0 0 0 0 3.000
Deutschland ARBOR INVEST Huber, Reuss & Kollegen Vermögensverwaltung GmbH 30-Jun-14   0 0 0 15.000 15.000
Deutschland HRK INVEST Huber, Reuss & Kollegen Vermögensverwaltung GmbH 30-Jun-14   0 0 0 0 3.500
Deutschland HRK INVEST Huber, Reuss & Kollegen Vermögensverwaltung GmbH 30-Jun-14   0 0 0 0 3.500
Deutschland HRK INVEST Huber, Reuss & Kollegen Vermögensverwaltung GmbH 30-Jun-14   0 0 0 0 6.000
Deutschland HRK INVEST Huber, Reuss & Kollegen Vermögensverwaltung GmbH 27-Jun-14   0 0 0 0 4.000
Deutschland Landesbank Berlin Investment GmbH Landesbank Berlin Investment GmbH 30-Sep-14 130.000 0 0 0 0 0
Deutschland MEAG MUNICH ERGO Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH MEAG MUNICH ERGO Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH 30-Sep-14 0 0 0 0 0 10.000
Deutschland Nordinvest Norddeutsche Investment-Gesellschaft mbH Nordinvest Norddeutsche Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 30-Sep-14 0 0 50.000 0 0 0
Deutschland GANADOR PEH Wertpapier AG 30-Jun-14   3.500        
Deutschland StarCapital S.A. StarCapital AG 30-Jun-14   50.000 50.000 50.000    
Deutschland Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 30-Sep-14 35.000 35.000 22.000 10.000 0 0
Deutschland Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 31-Jan-15 8.000 11.000 0 0 0 0
Deutschland Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 30-Sep-14 25.000 0 0 0 0 0
Deutschland Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 30-Sep-14 0 0 0 2.910 2.180 0
Deutschland Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 30-Sep-14 21.000 21.000 21.000 0 0 0
Vz
Deutschland Allianz Institutional Investors Series Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 31-Dez-13     79.800      
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 30-Nov-14 221.336 122.977 115.477 151.477 140.477 217.477
Deutschland Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 30-Jan-15 0 0 0 0 264.000 272.000
Deutschland INKA Internationale Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH INKA Internationale Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH 31-Dez-14 0 0 0 68.400 0 0
Deutschland Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 30-Jun-14   0 0 0 0 130.500
Deutschland Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 30-Jun-14   8.000 6.000 4.000 6.600 6.600
ADR Vz
Deutschland AmpegaGerling Investment GmbH AmpegaGerling Investment GmbH 30-Sep-14 8.500 0 0      
Deutschland BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 31-Okt-14 0 0 0 0 0 37.425
Deutschland BNY Mellon Service Kapitalanlage-Gesellschaft BNY Mellon Service Kapitalanlage-Gesellschaft 30-Sep-14 0 22.500 0 0 0  
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 30-Jun-14   0 0 0 0 6.964
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 31-Dez-14   0 0 0 0 51.900
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 31-Dez-14 0   0 0 0 1.200
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 31-Dez-14 0 0 0 0 0 410
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 31-Dez-14 0 0 0 0 0 1.100
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 31-Dez-14 0 0 0 0 0 9.000
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 31-Dez-14 0 0 0 0 0 1.284
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 30-Jun-14   0 0 0 0 35.000
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 30-Sep-14 25.606 27.972 20.771 13.290 3.250 3.250
Deutschland Deka Investment GmbH Deka Investment GmbH 30-Jun-14   0 0 0 0 3.200
Deutschland Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH FIVV AG FinanzInformation & VermögensVerwaltung AG 30-Jun-14   0 0 0 0 6.380
Deutschland Warburg Invest Luxemborg S.A. GS&P Grossbötzl, Schmitz & Partner VV GmbH 30-Sep-14 0 0       12.500
Deutschland KAS Investment Servicing GmbH KAS Investment Servicing GmbH 31-Dez-14 0 0 0     68.948
Deutschland Landesbank Berlin Investment GmbH Landesbank Berlin Investment GmbH 30-Sep-14 139.700 139.700 139.700 139.700 147.700 123.700
Deutschland Landesbank Berlin Investment GmbH Landesbank Berlin Investment GmbH 30-Sep-14 0 0 0 0 15.300 15.300
Deutschland MEAG MUNICH ERGO Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH MEAG MUNICH ERGO Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH 30-Sep-14 22.000 22.000 10.000 10.000 10.000 0
Großbritannien Aberdeen Global SICAV Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited 31-Mrz-14   3.591.900        
Großbritannien Aberdeen Investment Funds ICVC Aberdeen Unit Trust Managers Limited 30-Apr-13       179.400    
Großbritannien Aberdeen Investment Funds ICVC Aberdeen Unit Trust Managers Limited 30-Apr-13       152.300    
Großbritannien Aberdeen Unit Trust Managers Limited Aberdeen Unit Trust Managers Limited 30-Apr-13       286.700    
Großbritannien Aberdeen Investment Funds ICVC Aberdeen Unit Trust Managers Limited 30-Apr-13       589.000    
Großbritannien Artemis Fund Managers Limited Artemis Fund Managers Limited 07-Apr-14   0 102.600 0 0 0
Großbritannien Dimensional Fund Advisors Ltd. (ICVC) Dimensional Fund Advisors Ltd. (ICVC) 30-Jun-14   410.962 396.662 328.328    
Großbritannien JPMorgan Fund ICVC JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Ltd. 31-Jul-14 0 2.059.207        
Großbritannien Schroder Investment Management Ltd. Schroder Investment Management Ltd. 20-Jun-14   650.900 0 0    
Großbritannien SWIP Multi-Manager ICVC Scottish Widows Investment Partnership ICVC 31-Mrz-14   103.357 127.660 127.660 65.462 325.809

 

 


 

 

M & A

 

MeVis: new ownership

Ownership of Me Vis Medical Solutions AG, the Prime Standard-listed medical technology concern passed to Varian Medical Systems Inc of North America at the end of April. Varian acquired the majority holding of Me Vis through its German subsidiary VMS Deutschland Holdings GmbH. Me Vis shareholders accepted the takeover bid at the end of January for 1337995 shares at 17.5 Euros per share, amounting to some 74% of share capital.

Faced with the scenario of being absorbed, the chair of the Supervisory Board   Heinz-Otto Peitgen will resign his mandate to the shareholders’ at the meeting in early June. One of the founders of the company, Peitgen left his mark on the company’s development as chair of the Supervisory Board up to and beyond its stock-market listing in 2007. Peter Kuhlmann-Lehmkuhle, a fellow Supervisory Board member over the last four years, will also tender his resignation.

The Supervisory Board intends proposing Jörg Fässler and Glen Hilton as candidates to the shareholders for election. Both hold managerial posts in the new majority shareholder.

 

Drillisch: shopping spree in the mobile phone shop

Mobile phone provider Drillisch AG has purchased the entire share quota of The Phone House from Dixons of the UK for 62 million Euros. The amount of the transaction is made up partly of Drillisch TecDax-listed shares and partly of The Phone House’s future income. Drillisch as a provider does not run its own network but buys up contingency blocks from networks for resale. According to Drillisch, in selling contracts for mobile, land-line, and telecommunication equipment networks The Phone House has an annual turnover of some 350 million Euros. Drillisch expects this transaction, which should be finalised in May, to expand its new off-line sales channel to the whole territory.  

 

 


 

 

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