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INDUS Holding AG launches public share buyback offer

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Bergisch Gladbach, 21 February 2024 – Today, the Board of Management of INDUS Holding resolved, with the approval of the Supervisory Board, to launch a public buyback offer to shareholders of INDUS Holding AG for up to 1,100,000 no-par value bearer shares of INDUS Holding AG (ISIN DE0006200108) at a price of EUR 23.00 per share. Thus, the volume of the share buyback amounts to up to EUR 25,300,000 in aggregate. Shareholders of the company can accept the share buyback offer during the period from 22 February 2024 to 1 March 2024 (in each case inclusive).

With today’s public share buyback offer, the company is utilizing the authorization granted by the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting on 13 August 2020 to buy back shares for up to 10% of the company’s share capital by 12 August 2025. The authorization has not been exercised to date and, the company currently does not hold any treasury shares. If the share buyback offer were to be fully implemented, the company would hold treasury shares corresponding to approximately 4.09% of the company’s registered share capital. The repurchased shares may be used for all purposes permitted under the authorization.

The share buyback offer will be carried out on the terms and conditions contained in the offer document. The offer document will be published today on the Company’s website (www.indus.de/en) under the section “Investor Relations – Share buyback” and subsequently in the German Federal Gazette (www.bundesanzeiger.de). The results of the offer will also be announced on the company’s website.

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The terms and further provisions relating to the public share buyback offer are set out in the offer document, which has neither been submitted to BaFin for review nor authorised by BaFin. The share buyback offer does not comply with the provisions of the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act. Holders of shares in INDUS Holding AG are strongly advised to read the offer document and, if necessary, to seek independent advice on the matters contained therein.

This release contains forward-looking statements. These statements are based on the current views, expectations, and assumptions of the management of INDUS Holding AG and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. INDUS Holding AG assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements.

Axel Meyer

COO Engineering
Axel Meyer (German citizen, born 1968) has been a member of the INDUS Board of Management since October 2017.

Until joining INDUS, he held various management positions at Schuler AG, most recently as Managing Director of Schuler Pressen and Head of the Service Division of the Schuler Group, Goeppingen, Germany.

Previously, Axel Meyer worked as a member of the Board of Management of the international management consultancy IMAGIN Prof. Bochmann AG, Eppstein im Taunus, Germany. He started his professional career in the Schuler Group's Solid Forming Division, initially in global sales and later as Division Manager.

Axel Meyer studied industrial engineering in Germany and the USA and earned a Master of Mergers & Acquisitions (LL.M.) at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management while working. 

Gudrun Degenhart

COO Materials Solutions
Gudrun Degenhart (German citizen, born 1970) has been a member of the Board of Management of INDUS since October 2023.

She has more than 20 years of experience in the management and development of portfolio companies in Europe, USA and the Asia-Pacific regions.

Before joining INDUS, Gudrun Degenhart was CEO for the German portfolio companies of the international service group ISS. She previously worked for the thyssenkrupp Group, including as CEO of the international business unit for special lifts and as CEO of Materials Western Europe and Asia-Pacific. She gained experience in medium-sized companies as a board member of the construction technology company Schöck.

A graduate in business administration, she began her career by building up the Central and Eastern European activities of the construction specialist Lindner Group. 

Dr. Jörn Großmann

COO Infrastructure
Dr. Jörn Großmann (German citizen, born 1968) has been a member of the INDUS Board of Management since January 2019.

Up until joining INDUS, he worked for the Dutch group Aalberts Industries, with his last position being the sole managing director of Impreglon, Lüneburg, Germany.

He previously held various positions at the Georgsmarienhütte Group, initially becoming managing director of Mannstaedt, Troisdorf, Germany and later managing director of GMH Edelstahl Service Center Burg and GMH Engineering. Before Dr. Großmann became the managing director of Buderus Feinguss, Moers, Germany, he worked as a development engineer and as a technical director for Doncasters Precision Castings, Bochum, Germany.

He studied material sciences and earned a doctorate in the field of natural sciences.

Dr. -Ing. Johannes Schmidt

CEO
Dr. -Ing. Johannes Schmidt (German citizen, born 1961) has been a member of the Board of Management of INDUS since January 2006. He has assumed the position of CEO since July 2018.

Dr. -Ing. Schmidt was previously the sole managing director of ebm-papst Landshut, Germany, a manufacturer of ventilation motors and fans. During his tenure there, his main achievements included advancing the development of new product platforms and the internationalization of production sites.

Dr. -Ing. Schmidt began his career at Richard Bergner, a manufacturer of electrical instruments from Schwabach, Germany. He initially led product development before rising to the position of managing director during his 12 years at the company.

Schmidt, who studied mathematics, gained an engineering doctorate in mechanics from the Technical University of Darmstadt. 

Rudolf Weichert

CFO
Rudolf Weichert (German citizen, born 1963) is the CFO of INDUS.

Before joining the INDUS Board of Management in June 2012, he was a Partner at KPMG for nine years. He spent three of these years in Detroit, Michigan, United States, where he worked mainly with companies in the engineering, and materials trading industries.

Mr. Weichert, who holds a masters degree in business administration, worked for KPMG for about 20 years, primarily in the firm’s Duesseldorf office, where he worked mainly with multinational manufacturing corporations.