GOETTINGEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At today’s meeting, the Supervisory Board of Sartorius AG approved the Executive Board’s recommendation to submit a proposal to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on April 7, 2016, to raise dividends to 1.52 euros per preference share (previous year: 1.08 euros) and 1.50 euros per ordinary share (previous year: 1.06 euros). If approved, the total amount disbursed under this proposal would thus rise by 41.5% year over year from 18.2 million euros to 25.8 million euros.