Until completion of the offer period at 13 April 2012, 04.00
pm, 3,875,296 registered shares in Uster were tendered to
Toyota, representing 92.2% of all registered shares in Uster,
to which the offer relates to. The aggregate position of
Toyota as at 13 April 2012 (close of SIX Swiss Exchange),
amounted to a total of
8,133,673 Uster Shares, corresponding to 96.1% of all issued
Uster Shares.
In the publication of the final interim result, which is
expected to be published by Toyota in Neue Zurcher Zeitung
and Le Temps on 19 April 2012, Toyota will inform about the
acceptance of its voluntary public tender offer.
CH-8610 Uster / Schweiz CH-8610 Uster / Schweiz
Tel. +41 43 366 36 00 Tel. +41 43 366 36 00
Fax +41 43 366 36 04 Fax +41 43 366 36 04
E-mail investorrelations@uster.com
E-mail investorrelations@uster.com
The Uster Group is the leading high technology instrument manufacturer of products for quality measurement and certification for the textile industry. The Group provides testing and monitoring instruments, systems and services that allow optimization of quality through each individual stage of textile production; from the raw textile fiber, such as cotton, wool or synthetic filament yarns, to the final finished fabric. The Uster Group provides benchmarks that are a basis for the trading of textile products at assured levels of quality across global markets. The Group is headquartered in Uster, Switzerland and operates through a worldwide Market Organization complemented by Technology Centers. It has sales and service subsidiaries in the major textile markets and Technology Centers in Uster (Switzerland), Knoxville (USA) and Suzhou (China). In 2011, the Uster Group generated gross sales of CHF
193 million and an operating profit (EBITA) of CHF 57 million, with a workforce of approximately 500 employees.
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