In accordance with Section 82 Subsection 9 Austrian Stock Exchange Act, voestalpine AG announces that it has transferred 55,668 of its own shares (corresponding to
0.03 % 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, 50,768 shares were transferred at a price of EUR 20.04 each and 4.900 shares at a price of EUR 26 each. This transfer was carried out under the existing voestalpine employee share purchase plan. In addition voestalpine AG transferred 71 shares as part of a competition [Gewinnspiel].
The proportion of shares of voestalpine AG held by employees remains unchanged at approximately 14.5 % after this transfer of shares. Of these 14,5%, approximately 13.5 % 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 20 December 2012, voestalpine AG holds a total of 90.629 own shares.