Hawesko : Alexander Margaritoff is resigning as the CEO of Hawesko Holding AG and will sell his shares (AD HOC STATEMENT i a w Section 15 of German Securities Trading Act)

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AD HOC STATEMENT i.a.w.Section 15 of the German Securities Trading Act: Hawesko: Alexander Margaritoff is resigning as the CEO of Hawesko Holding AG and will sell his shares

· Extraordinary meeting of shareholders has been cancelled

Hamburg, 19 January 2015. Hawesko Holding AG (HAW GR, HAWG.DE, DE0006042708) has announced that Mr. Alexander Margaritoff has given notification that he is stepping down as chief executive officer and resigning all further positions within the Group effective 30 June 2015, and that the supervisory board has accepted his resignation. He cited the differences between himself and Mr. Detlev Meyer, the owner of Tocos Beteiligung GmbH and supervisory board member of Hawesko Holding AG regarding the future strategy and corporate management style.

Moreover, Mr. Margaritoff informed the company that he would offer his shares amounting to a 30% interest in Hawesko Holding AG to Tocos Beteiligung GmbH.

The management board and supervisory board regret this decision and thank Mr. Margaritoff for his great commitment to Hawesko over the decades and his steady development of the firm into one of the world's leading wine trading companies.

In the wake of this development the management board of Hawesko Holding AG has cancelled the extraordinary meeting of shareholders scheduled for 26 January 2015.

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