GOETTINGEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At today’s meeting, the Supervisory Board of Sartorius AG resolved to approve the Executive Board’s dividend proposal. Accordingly, the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board will submit this proposal to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on April 20, 2011, to raise dividends to 0.62 euro per preference share (previous year: 0.42 euro) and to 0.60 euro per ordinary share (previous year: 0.40 euro). Compared with the previous year, the total amount disbursed would thus increase 48.8% from 7.0 million euros to 10.4 million euros.
