euro adhoc: adidas AG / Release of a voting rights announcement according to article 26, section 1.1 WpHG (Securities Trading Act) with the aim of a Europe-wide distribution

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Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is
responsible for the content of this announcement.
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Person/company obliged to make the notification:
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Name: UBS AG
Place: Zurich
State: Switzerland

Company data:
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Name: adidas AG
Address: Adi-Dassler-Str. 1-2, 91074 Herzogenaurach
Place: Herzogenaurach
State: Deutschland

15.05.2008

UBS AG, Zurich, Switzerland, informed us pursuant to article 21 section 1 WpHG
(German Securities Trading Act) on May 14, 2008, that the percentage of voting
rights held by them in adidas AG (ISIN DE0005003404), Adi-Dassler-Strasse 1,
91074 Herzogenaurach, has fallen below the threshold of 3% on May 7, 2008 and on
this date amounted to 2.45% (4,998,440 shares with voting rights).

0.16% (327,973 shares with voting rights) of these voting rights are to be
attributed to UBS AG pursuant to article 22 section 1 sentence 1 no. 1 WpHG.

Herzogenaurach, May 15, 2008

adidas AG
The Executive Board

end of announcement euro adhoc
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emitter: adidas AG
Adi-Dassler-Str. 1-2
D-91074 Herzogenaurach
phone: +49 (0)9132 84-0
FAX: +49 (0)9132 84-2241
mail: [email protected]
WWW: http://www.adidas-Group.com
sector: Recreational & Sports goods
ISIN: DE0005003404, A0DMK03
indexes: DAX, CDAX, HDAX, Prime All Share
stockmarkets: regulated dealing/prime standard: Börse Frankfurt, free trade:
Börse Berlin, Börse Hamburg, Börse Stuttgart, Börse Düsseldorf,
Börse Hannover, Börse München
language: English

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