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Goldbach Group AG

EQS-Adhoc: Goldbach Group AG: Provisional final result regarding the Goldbach takeover: 96.90% of the shares tendered to Tamedia

EQS Group-Ad-hoc: Goldbach Group AG / Key word(s): Takeover/Preliminary Results
Goldbach Group AG: Provisional final result regarding the Goldbach takeover:
96.90% of the shares tendered to Tamedia

12-Apr-2018 / 07:20 CET/CEST
Release of an ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 KR
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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AD HOC PRESS RELEASE  
 
Provisional final result regarding the Goldbach takeover: 96.90% of the shares
tendered to Tamedia

Küsnacht, 12.04.2018.By the end of the statutory grace period, 96.90 percent of
Goldbach Group's shares were tendered to Tamedia. The final result is
provisional. Tamedia is planning to pay a cash compensation to the remaining
minority shareholders upon completion of the takeover and to have the Goldbach
Group delisted.

On 22 December 2017, the media group Tamedia made a preliminary announcement of
a public tender offer for all shares of Goldbach Group AG (ISIN CH0004870942).
On 2 February 2018, Tamedia AG published the detailed Offer Prospectus for the
takeover of the Goldbach Group AG at CHF 35.50 per registered share. After the
publication of the definitive interim result, at which time 89.48 percent of the
Goldbach shares had already been tendered to Tamedia, the remaining
shareholders, who had not yet tendered their shares, had another opportunity to
do so during the statutory grace period.

According to the provisional final result, a total of 6'098'790 shares of the
Goldbach Group had been tendered to Tamedia by the end of the statutory grace
period on 11 April 2018, 4:00 pm CEST. This represents 96.90 percent of the
maximum number of 6'293'876 Goldbach shares that are subject to the offer.

Maximum number of shares issued by Goldbach Group Number of shares tendered
under the offer Participation rate and

success rate

6'293'876                                         6'098'790
96.90%
 
According to the ordinance of the Swiss Takeover Board regarding public takeover
offers, the final result at hand is provisional. Tamedia will publish the
definitive final result of the takeover offer to Goldbach on 17 April 2018, as
per applicable law.

After the completion of the takeover of Goldbach, Tamedia intends to pay a cash
compensation to the remaining minority shareholders and to have the Goldbach
Group delisted. However, the offer continues to be subject to the restrictions
and conditions as determined in the Offer Prospectus, including the approval of
the Swiss Federal Competition Commission. Tamedia and Goldbach anticipate
receiving the approval in May or, in case of an in-depth review, by September
2018 at the latest. Therefore, Tamedia will postpone the closing of the offer,
subject to the fulfilment of all terms and conditions as published in the Offer
Prospectus, to this coming May or June, or in case of an in-depth review by the
Federal Competition Commission, to September or October 2018. The closing date
will be announced by Tamedia once all of the conditions of the offer have been
fulfilled.

The text of the preannouncement, the Offer Prospectus and all information
regarding the offer restrictions are available for downloading
atwww.tamedia.ch/goldbach

Further information:
Investor Relations 
Goldbach Group AG 
Lukas Leuenberger 
CFO 
T +41 44 914 91 00  
lukas.leuenberger@goldbachgroup.com 
www.goldbachgroup.com 

Corporate Communication
Goldbach Group AG
Jürg Bachmann
Head of Communications & Marketing / Public Affairs
M +41 79 600 32 62 
juerg.bachmann@goldbachgroup.com
www.goldbachgroup.com
 

The corporate profile of the Goldbach Group
The Goldbach Group companies market and represent advertising in private
electronic media in the areas of television, radio, digital-out-of-home, online,
search engine and mobile marketing. As an independent aggregator, Goldbach
offers its clients advertising windows where selected target groups receive
commercial information at the right time irrespective of their location. The
Group's core business comprises planning, consulting, creation, concept
development, purchasing and implementation through to assessment of the
deployment of electronic offline and online media and cross-media campaigns
based on data-driven technologies.

The Goldbach Group is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (Swiss Reporting
Standard, security number 487094, ISIN CH0004870942, ticker symbol: GBMN), is
based in Switzerland (Küsnacht ZH) and is active in German-speaking countries.

Further information:
http://www.goldbachgroup.com/en-us/investor-relations/ad-hoc-press-releases

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Document title: Ad hoc_Provisional final result_ENG
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Language: English

Company:  Goldbach Group AG

          Seestrasse 39

          8700 Küsnacht-Zürich

          Switzerland

Phone:    +41 44 914 91 00

Fax:      +41 44 914 93 60

E-mail:    info@goldbachgroup.com

Internet: www.goldbachgroup.com

ISIN:     CH0004870942

Valor:    487094

Listed:   SIX Swiss Exchange



 

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