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Lucerne, December 9, 2019 – SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH, a global leader in special long steel, has received a positive decision from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA on the appeal against the Swiss Takeover Board's decision of November 22, 2019. In the first instance, the Swiss Takeover Board had rejected Martin Haefner/BigPoint Holding AG's application for an exemption from the obligation to make a mandatory offer. This means that the share capital increase approved by the shareholders at the Extraordinary Shareholder Meeting on December 2, 2019 can now be implemented as planned.

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Lucerne, December 2, 2019 – SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH (“S+B”), a global leader in special long steel, announces that the shareholders at today's extraordinary shareholders' meeting approved the capital reduction and simultaneous capital increase by at least CHF 325 million proposed by the Board of Directors.