Resolutions of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of Sartorius AG

Annual Shareholders‘ Meeting passes resolution to pay dividends of 1.08 euros per preference share and 1.06 euros per ordinary share | Supervisory Board and Executive Board granted discharge by a large majority

Goettingen, April 9, 2015 – At today’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting in Goettingen, Germany, shareholders approved the board proposals by a large majority. Thus, the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting passed the resolution to pay dividends of 1.08 euros per preference share (previous year: 1.02 euros) and 1.06 euros per ordinary share (previous year: 1.00 euro). Accordingly, the total amount of dividends to be paid out will rise from 17.2 million euros to 18.2 million euros. In addition, the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting issued various authorizations to the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board concerning the use of treasury shares.

The Annual Shareholders’ Meeting granted discharge to the Supervisory Board and to the Executive Board by a considerable majority. On the whole, some 350 share owners representing over 96% of the voting share capital attended this year’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting.