Transfer of shares to employees of the voestalpine group

13 June 2013 |

In accordance with Section 82 Subsection 9 Austrian Stock Exchange Act, voestalpine AG announces that it has transferred 62,032 of its own shares (corresponding to 0.04 % of its capital stock) to employees of voestalpine Group, by initially transferring these to voestalpine Mitarbeiterbeteiligung Privatstiftung for allocating these to employees of voestalpine Group. Of these, 13,514 shares were transferred at a price of EUR 23.96 each and 48,518 shares at a price of EUR 25.71 each. This transfer was carried out under the existing voestalpine employee share purchase plan.

The proportion of shares of voestalpine AG held by employees in comparison to 31 March 2013 (= end of the business year 2012/13) remains unchanged at 14.4 %. Of these 14.4%, approximately
13.4 % account for the employee share purchase model as such and approximately 1 % account for individual shares of present or former employees whose voting rights were also transferred to voestalpine Mitarbeiterbeteiligung Privatstiftung.

As at 13 June 2013, voestalpine AG holds a total of 28,597 own shares.