With sustainable management, voestalpine manages not only to create value but also to do justice to our place in society, particularly as a reliable partner to our customers and our employees.

Our objective is to give our shareholders corporate information clearly, expeditiously and transparently. The investor relations team at voestalpine AG is the communications link between the corporation and the capital market.

 

 

  

voestalpine AG declares according to § 93, section 1 of the Austrian stock exchange law, that the registered capital of the company according to $ 4, section 6 of the Articles of Association will be increased from EUR 287,784,423.33 to
EUR 298,756,264.42 per July, 4, 2007, via emission of 6,039,033 bearer shares to creditors of the convertible bond, launched by voestalpine in July 2005 (conditional capital increase). This corresponds to an increase of the registered capital of 3.81%.

The registered capital of the company therefore will amount to EUR 298,756,264.42, divided by 164,439,033 bearer shares as of July, 4, 2007.

Apart from this conditional capital increase, voestalpine AG transferred 26,666 bought back shares per June, 18, 2007 and 1,808,372 bought back shares per June, 28, 2007 (in total ca. 1.26% of the registered capital) to creditors of the convertible bond, launched by voestalpine in July 2005 at a conversion price of
EUR 18.75, in total EUR 37,456,950.

voestalpine AG declares according to § 82, section 9 of the Austrian stock exchange law, that in the context of the existing employee shareholding scheme following (bought back) voting stocks of voestalpine AG have been transferred to the employees of the voestalpine group, respectively employee foundation in order to distribute to employees of voestalpine group as of June, 26, 2007, per following stock quotations: 

Number of shares	Percentage of registered capital	Share price in €	Total value in €
1,600,000	1.01%	39.44	63,104,000,-
128,957	0.08%	40.00	5,158,280,-
2,925	0.01%	60.01	175,529.25

• March 25, 2008: Böhler-Uddeholm AG; 90% voting threshold passed

 

• February 25, 2008: voestalpine – heading to new records after three quarters

 

• November 13, 2007: voestalpine reports most successful mid year

 

• October 16, 2007: voestalpine AG successfully launches hybrid bond
  
  
• September 7, 2007: voestalpine AG reaches 79.2 % in Böhler-Uddeholm AG

• August 8, 2007: voestalpine again posts record figures – the operating result rises by more than 45% in the first quarter of 2007/08

 

• July 2, 2007: voestalpine confirms no increase of bid price for Böhler-Uddeholm

 

• June 19, 2007: BOEHLER-UDDHOLM AG: takeover offer by voestalpine AG unconditional – purchase price payable on 22 June 2007

 

• June 6, 2007: voestalpine — operating result 2006/07 for the first time over
  EUR 1 billion, dividend nearly doubled

 

• June 5, 2007: voestalpine successful in takeover offer for Boehler-Uddeholm; final result available; still waiting for merger control approval

• June 5, 2007: voestalpine successful in takeover offer for Boehler-Uddeholm; preliminary result available

• May 18, 2007: voestalpine increases takeover offer for BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM AG from EUR 69.00 to EUR 73.00; acceptance period extended until June 4, 2007

 

• April 25, 2007: voestalpine publishes takeover offer for BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM AG on April 26, 2007

 

• April 13, 2007: voestalpine board: no rights issue for Böhler-Uddeholm take-over 

 

• March 29, 2007: According to § 5 (3) Austrian Takeover Code and with regard to § 48d BörseG voestalpine AG announces:

 

• Letter to shareholders 3Q 2006/07

 

• voestalpine AG - Repurchase Program 2006/07