On October 14, 2015, BlackRock, Inc., Wilmington, DE, United States has
informed us according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG that via shares
its Voting Rights on K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel, Germany, have exceeded
the 5% threshold of the Voting Rights on October 12, 2015 and on that day
amounted to 5.005% (this corresponds to 9578946 Voting Rights).
1.98% of Voting Rights (this corresponds to 3788772 Voting Rights) are
attributed to the company in accordance with Article 22, Section 1,
Sentence 1, No. 1 of the WpHG (German Securities Trading Act).
0.002% of Voting Rights (this corresponds to 4275 Voting Rights) are
attributed to the company in accordance with Article 22, Section 1,
Sentence 1, No. 2 in connection with sentence 2 of the WpHG (German
Securities Trading Act).
3.17% of Voting Rights (this corresponds to 6060014 Voting Rights) are
attributed to the company in accordance with Article 22, Section 1,
Sentence 1, No. 6 in connection with sentence 2 of the WpHG (German
Securities Trading Act).
Please note that the total amount stated above does not necessarily equal
the sum of the detailed attributed holdings. This results from voting
rights having multiple attributions within the BlackRock group structure.