At the meeting held on February 20, 2018, the Supervisory Board of Sartorius AG, approved the Executive Board's recommendation to submit a proposal to the Annual General Shareholders' Meeting on April 5, 2018, to raise dividends to EUR 0.51 per preference share and EUR 0.50 per ordinary share. Prior-year dividends were EUR 0.46 and EUR 0.45 per preference share and per ordinary share, respectively. Therefore, the total amount disbursed under this proposal would increase by 11.0% to EUR 34.5 million from EUR 31.1 million a year earlier.

In addition, the Supervisory Board will submit a proposal to the Annual General Shareholders' Meeting to elect Dr. Guido Oelkers to the Supervisory Board as a representative of the shareholders. Guido Oelkers has already been a member of this board since November 2017. He was appointed by court order after Supervisory Board member Professor Arnold Picot, Ph.D., had passed away.