EANS-Adhoc: Lenzing AG / Lenzing general shareholders' meeting agrees to dividend payment of EUR 14 per share

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23.04.2009

Lenzing general shareholders' meeting agrees to dividend payment of EUR 14 per
share

Josef Krenner and Helmut Bernkopf new members of the supervisory board

The general shareholders' meeting of Lenzing AG has agreed to pay an unchanged
dividend of EUR 14.00 per share for business year 2008. 30 April 2009 and 28
April 2009 were determined as value date and ex-dividend date, respectively.

Newly elected to the supervisory board for the statutory period of three years
were Josef Krenner as the representative of the state of Upper Austria, as well
as Helmut Bernkopf. Horst Bednar resigned as member with the end of today's
general meeting.

The members of the current supervisory board therefore are: Hermann Bell, Walter
Lederer, Winfried Braumann, Martin Payer, Andreas Schmidradner, Veit Sorger,
Josef Krenner and Helmut Bernkopf.

The general shareholders' meeting, moreover, authorized the management board to
buy company shares of up to a total of 5% of the share capital in accordance
with section 65, paragraph 1 Z 8 of the Austrian Joint Stock Companies Act
(AktG).The authorization will be valid for 30 months from the date of
authorization. The minimum and maximum share price for redemption were defined
as EUR 90.00 and EUR 300.00, respectively.

The subsequent constitutive meeting of the new supervisory board reelected
Hermann Bell as chairman and Winfried Braumann as deputy chairman.

Further inquiry note:
Lenzing AG
Mag. Angelika Guldt
Tel.: +43 (0) 7672-701-2713
Fax: +43 (0) 07672-96301
mailto:a.guldt@lenzing.com

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emitter: Lenzing AG

A-A-4860 Lenzing
phone: +43 7672-701-0
FAX: +43 7672-96301
mail: a.guldt@lenzing.com
WWW: http://www.lenzing.com
sector: Chemicals
ISIN: AT0000644505
indexes: WBI
stockmarkets: free trade: Börse Berlin, official dealing: Wiener Börse AG
language: English

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