Bayer Aktiengesellschaft 23.10.2014 14:48 Dissemination of a Voting Rights Announcement, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On October 21, 2014, Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS), Boston, United States has informed us according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG that via shares its Voting Rights on Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Leverkusen, Germany, have exceeded the 3% threshold of the Voting Rights on October 20, 2014 and on that day amounted to 3.0003% (this corresponds to 24810514 Voting Rights). 1.6370% of Voting Rights (this corresponds to 13536854 Voting Rights) are attributed to the company in accordance with Article 22, Section 1, Sentence 1, No. 6 of the WpHG (German Securities Trading Act). 1.3633% of Voting Rights (this corresponds to 11273660 Voting Rights) are attributed to the company in accordance with Article 22, Section 1, Sentence 1, No. 6 in connection with sentence 2 of the WpHG (German Securities Trading Act). 23.10.2014 The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 1 51373 Leverkusen Germany Internet: www.bayer.com End of Announcement DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DGAP-PVR: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft: Release according to Article 26, Section 1 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] with the objective of Europe-wide distribution
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