Deutsche Börse AG: Annual General Meeting Approves Record-High Dividend - Supervisory Board Newly Elected

At the Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, the shareholders of Deutsche Börse AG approved the payment of a dividend of 8 euros per share. Unappropriated profit for the year in business year 1999, amounting to 58.72 million euros, will be distributed. The shareholders also released the Executive Board and Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse AG from their responsibilities for business year 1999.

At the regular election of members to the Supervisory Board, Leonhard Fischer (Dresdner Bank AG), Harold Hörauf (HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt KGaA) and Dr. Claus Löwe (J.P. Morgan Securities) were newly elected to serve on this board. Gerhard Eberstadt (Dresdner Bank AG), Herbert H. Jacobi (HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt KGaA) and Josef F. Wertschulte (Bay. Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG) are leaving the Board. The following Supervisory Board members were re-elected: Dr. Rolf-E. Breuer (Deutsche Bank AG), Dr. Peter Coym (Lehman Brothers Bankhaus AG), Uwe E. Flach (DG Bank Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank), Dr. Norbert Juchem (Bay. Hypo-und Vereinsbank AG), Friedrich von Metzler (Bankhaus B. Metzler seel. Sohn&Co. KGaA), Alfred Möckel (BHF-BANK AG), Fritz Nols (Fritz Nols Global Equity Services AG), Klaus M. Patig (Commerzbank AG), Gerhard Roggemann (Westdeutsche Landesbank), Rainer Roubal (Kursmakler), Manfred Zaß (DGZ DekaBank - Deutsche Kommunalbank).

According to Deutsche Börse, at the first meeting of the newly constituted Supervisory Board, also on Wednesday, the Supervisory Board members elected Dr. Rolf-E. Breuer (Deutsche Bank) as chairman. His deputies are Leonhard Fischer, Friedrich von Metzler, Klaus M. Patig and Manfred Zaß. In view of the planned merger of Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange, the General Meeting decided to drop all items on the agenda relating to the company's plan to go public.