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elexis AG / Key word(s): Enterprise/ elexis AG: Press Release concerning the Annual General Meeting on 16 May 2012 DGAP-Media / 16.05.2012 / 15:41 =-------------------------------------------------------------------- Press Release concerning the Annual General Meeting on 16 May 2012 * Outlook for 2012: Stable performance for sales and earnings * Switch to the General Standard planned * Dividend of 0.27 euros per share approved * New Supervisory Board elected Wenden, 16 May 2012 At today's Annual General Meeting 93,74 percent of the capital of elexis AG was represented. Siegfried Koepp, Chairman of the Management Board, emphasised in his speech the strategic importance of continuing to extend the Group's technology leadership. Despite the subdued economic outlook, elexis AG will continue to invest in new products and groundbreaking innovations. Technological advantage remains the key to success and profitable growth. The Group expects that incoming orders, sales revenue and profits will remain stable compared to the previous year. One result of the innovation initiatives was the new products presented at the 'drupa' trade fair in May 2012 that provided impressive proof of elexis's technology leadership. Numerous new developments are also being pursued in the other product areas. Further technological opportunities are currently being examined with feasibility studies in the 'New Products' profit centre that was established in 2011. The Management Board also referred to the ad-hoc announcement of 16 May 2012 and explained that it intended to apply to switch from the listing on the Prime Standard of the regulated market to the General Standard of the regulated market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. This switch will reduce the additional costs involved with the listing on the Prime Standard. The elexis share had already left the SDAX on 19 September 2011 as it no longer met fundamental eligibility criteria. Supervisory Board and Management Board At the Annual General Meeting the acts of the members of the Management Board and the members of the Supervisory Board in office in 2011 were ratified for the past financial year with a clear majority. The shareholders re-elected the current members of the Supervisory Board, Ulrich Harnacke, Dr. Kay Mayland, Dr. Joachim Schnbeck and Eckhard Schulte. As a result of the amendment to the Articles of Association that was made in December 2011, four shareholder representatives were elected to the Supervisory Board. There were also changes among the employee representatives on the Supervisory Board. Klaus Kramer, former Works Council Chairman of BST International GmbH, has retired and left the Supervisory Board. He is succeeded by Horst Backhaus in this role. Georg Keppeler has also left the Supervisory Board due to its reduction in size. We thank the members departing at the end of this Annual General Meeting, Karl Heinz Gorgas, Klaus Kramer, Georg Keppeler and Willi Loose, for their dedication over the past few years. Dividend distribution The shareholders followed the proposal of the Management Board and Supervisory Board and approved the distribution of a dividend of 0.27 euros per share for the past financial year. This equates to a total payment of 2.484 million euros. Auditor BDO AG Wirtschaftsprfungsgesellschaft, Dsseldorf, was elected by the shareholders as the new auditor for the 2012 financial year. Amendments to the Articles of Association The proposed amendments to the Articles of Association concerning the remuneration structure for the members of the Supervisory Board and the other amendments to the Articles of Association were accepted. The speech made by the members of the Management Board at the Annual General Meeting and the voting results can be viewed in German at http://www.elexis.de. Shares of elexis AG are listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ISIN: DE 000 508 500 5). End of Media Release =-------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.05.2012 Dissemination of a Press Release, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. DGAP's Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at http://www.dgap-medientreff.de and http://www.dgap.de =-------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: elexis AG Industriestrae 1 57482 Wenden Germany Phone: +49 (0)2762 612 - 130 Fax: +49 (0)2762 612 - 135 E-mail: eicke@elexis.de Internet: http://www.elexis.de ISIN: DE0005085005 WKN: 508500 Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin, Dsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart End of News DGAP-Media =-------------------------------------------------------------------- 170377 16.05.2012

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