DGAP-News: SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG: SKW Metallurgie shareholders participate in record 2008 earnings

SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG / Dividend/AGM/EGM

04.06.2009 

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Press Release for the 2009 Annual General Meeting

SKW Metallurgie shareholders participate in record 2008 earnings

- Gross dividend of EUR 0.50 per dividend-entitled share
- Supervisory Board enlarged and staffed with highly competent new members
- Management's motions all accepted

Unterneukirchen (Germany), June 04, 2009. At SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding
AG's Annual General Meeting, which was held in Muenchen (Germany) on June
4, 2009, all of the management's motions were accepted by the shareholders
represented (in attendance: approx. 31% of the share capital).

In particular, as proposed by the management, the meeting resolved to pay a
gross dividend of EUR 0.50 per dividend-entitled share (previous year: EUR
0.50) on June 5, 2009. This dividend allows the company's owners to
participate directly in the record-breaking 2008 earnings.

In order to be able to meet the increased requirements for excellent
corporate governance, the General Meeting resolved that the company's
non-co-determined Supervisory Board be increased from three to six members.
The increase in the size of the Supervisory Board becomes effective once it
is entered in the commercial register.

The following were appointed as members of the company's new, larger
Supervisory Board, as proposed by the management: Ms. Sabine Kauper, and
the gentlemen Titus Weinheimer, Dr. Dirk Markus, Dr. Christoph Schlünken,
Armin Bruch and Jochen Martin. Dr. Claus Ritzer was appointed as a deputy
member.

In all of the other votes, the management's proposals met with the required
majorities as well.



You may find further details of SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG's 2009
General Meeting and general information on the SKW Metallurgie Group at our
Web site www.skw-steel.com under Investor Relations.


Contact person:
SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG 
Christian Schunck 
Head of IR and Group Communications
Fabrikstrasse 6 
84579 Unterneukirchen
Germany 
Tel.: +49 8634-617596 
Fax: +49 8634-617594 
E-Mail: schunck@skw-steel.com
Internet: www.skw-steel.com

About SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG
SKW Metallurgie is the global market leader for chemical additives for hot
metal desulphurization, and for cored wire used in secondary metallurgy.
The Group's products enable steel-makers to efficiently manufacture
high-quality steel products. Clients include the world's leading companies
in the steel industry. The SKW Metallurgie Group has more than 50 years of
metallurgical know how, and currently operates in more than 40 countries.
What is more, the Group is a leading supplier of Quab specialty chemicals,
which are mainly used in the global production of industrial starch for the
paper industry. The company's operating business is broken down into the
two core segments 'Cored Wire and 'Powder and Granules', and the 'Other'
segment. The SKW Metallurgie Group is headquartered in Germany with
production facilities in France, the US (6), Canada, Mexico, South Korea,
the Peoples' Republic of China (2) and India (2 via joint ventures)..
Shares of SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG have been listed in Frankfurt
Stock Exchange's Prime Standard since December 1, 2006 with ISIN
DE000SKWM013, and have been included in the SDAX index from June 23, 2008.

DISCLAIMER
This press release contains statements on future developments that are
based on currently available information and involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ from these
forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, for
example, unpredictable changes in political and economic conditions,
particularly in the steel and paper industry, the competitive situation,
interest and currency risks, technological development as well as other
risks and unexpected circumstances. SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG and
its Group companies accept no obligation to update such forward-looking
statements.



Christian Schunck 
Head of IR and Group Communications
Fabrikstrasse 6 
84579 Unterneukirchen
Germany 
Tel.: +49 8634-617596 
Fax: +49 8634-617594 
E-Mail: schunck@skw-steel.com
Internet: www.skw-steel.com


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Language:     English
Issuer:       SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG
              Fabrikstrasse 6
              84579 Unterneukirchen
              Deutschland
Phone:        +49 (0)8634 61 511
Fax:          +49 (0)8634 61 513
E-mail:       info@skw-steel.com
Internet:     www.skw-steel.com
ISIN:         DE000SKWM013
WKN:          SKWM01
Indices:      SDAX
Listed:       Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
              in Berlin, Stuttgart, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf
 
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