Shareholder structure

Klöckner & Co SE has capital stock amounting to  €166.25 million, representing 66,500,000 registered shares. All shareholders are listed in an electronic share register.

All Klöckner & Co shares are publicly held* (free float). Our largest shareholder is Norges Bank Investment Management, which, based on statutory company statements now available, currently holds around five percent of all stock (as of July 2010)

Klöckner & Co SE shareholder structure

• Most of our institutional shareholders are in Great Britain and the United States
• Institutional German shareholders have 19 percent of shares
• Institutional investors own 64 percent
• Private investors hold 28 percent.

(as of December 2009 according to a shareholder study)

Statutory statements pursuant to Section 26 Clause 1 WpHG (German Securities Trading Act):
According to section 21 clause 1 WpHG, an issuer must be notified when the voting rights of a shareholder reach and/or exceed or fall below certain thresholds. These notification thresholds are 3%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 50% and 75% of the total shares outstanding.

The following table lists all shareholders, whose Klöckner & Co SE voting shares currently exceed one of the notification thresholds under section 21 clause 1 WpHG, based on notification.

_{*According to the definition of Deutsche Börse AG, all shares not held by major shareholders (holding over 5 percent of share capital) are considered to be publicly held. Furthermore, shares held by funds and representing less than 25 percent of a company’s capital stock are considered to be freely tradable, provided they are invested without strategic objectives.}