REGENSBURG, GERMANY--(Marketwire - April 16, 2010) - Geneart AG / The Management Board and the Supervisory Board of the GENEART AG Recommends the Acceptance of the Applied Biosystems/Life Technologies Voluntary Public Offer processed and transmitted by Hugin AS. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
Regensburg, April 16, 2010 - The Management Board and the Supervisory Board of GENEART AG have announced their joint statement with respect to the voluntary public offer by Applied Biosystems Deutschland GmbH to the shareholders of GENEART AG. This joint statement is in reference to the offer document published by the Applied Biosystems Deutschland GmbH (affiliate of the Life Technologies Group) on April 13, 2010.
The Management Board’s and the Supervisory Board’s joint statement may be downloaded from GENEART AG’s website at www.geneart.com. It is explicitly advised that the German Takeover Act (WpÜG) does not apply to the offer for acquisition of GENEART AG shares. This is not a statement pursuant to the WpÜG.
For further inquiries, please contact: Dr. Karoline Stürmer GENEART AG Josef-Engert-Str. 11 93053 Regensburg Germany Phone: (0)941-942 76-417 Fax: (0)941-942 76-711 ir@geneart.com www.geneart.com Frank Ostermair Better Orange IR & HV AG Haidelweg 48 81241 Munich Germany Phone: (0)89-8896906-10 Fax: (0)89-8896906-66 info@better-orange.de www.better-orange.de
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About GENEART AG:
In 2000 GENEART entered the Gene Synthesis market and has since become the global market leader. Today, the company is one of the leading specialists in the Synthetic Biology field. Experts at GENEART provide key technologies for the development and production of new therapeutics and vaccines. Customers also take advantage of GENEART services to customize enzyme attributes, such as the attributes of enzymes used as detergent additives, and to construct bacteria, which produce complex biopolymers or break down polymers, such as synthetics, petroleum components, etc. GENEART’s service portfolio ranges from the optimization and production of synthetic genes according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2008, to the generation of gene variants or complex gene libraries and the production of cell lines, to the development and production of DNA and protein based drug candidates. GENEART AG in Regensburg and its subsidiaries GENEART Inc. in Toronto (Canada) and GENEART Inc. in San Francisco (USA) employ about 180 people. The company is listed on the German Stock Exchange since May 2006. Since April 2010, the US-American Life Technologies Corporation, one of the leading biotechnology companies worldwide with 2009 revenues of 3.3B U.S. dollars and about 9,000 employees, is majority shareholder of GENEART AG.
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