The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse AG agreed in its extraordinary meeting on Friday 12 September 2008 without dissenting vote that the Supervisory and Executive Board of Deutsche Börse regard the ongoing implementation and continuation of the existing strategy of the integrated business model including its further development as the best conditions to further increase value for all shareholders and customers of the Group.
This decision was made against the backdrop of currently available, intensive analysis.
Further, the members of the Supervisory Board acknowledged that the Executive Board of Deutsche Börse took the appropriate measures to enhance value of Deutsche Börse Group, in particular through organic and inorganic growth strategies, measures to increase operational efficiency as well as the optimization of the capital structure.
