Public Purchase Offer of Pierer Industrie AG to the shareholders of SHW AG 2021

Voluntary Public Purchase Offer of Pierer Industrie AG to the shareholders of SHW AG 2021

You have accessed the website containing documents and information regarding the voluntary public Purchase offer of Pierer Industrie AG for the purchase of all shares in SHW AG not held by Pierer Industrie AG or its group companies.

Visitors to this page are requested to confirm that they have read and understood the following legal information in order to be redirected to the website containing the purchase offer.

On the following webpages pages you will find the Purchase Offer of Pierer Industrie AG with its registered office in Wels/Austria (“Bidder”), to all shareholders of SHW AG with its registered office in Aalen/Germany (“SHW Shareholders”) for the acquire their shares in SHW AG (“SHW”). All information contained on this website and documents accessible via this website are for information purposes only. As the SHW Shares are not admitted to trading on a regulated market, the Offer is neither subject to the provisions of the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act (Wertpapiererwerbs- und Übernahmegesetz, “WpÜG”) nor to the provisions of the German Stock Exchange Act (Börsengesetz, “BörsG”), in particular Section 39 BörsG is not applicable to the Offer.

The Purchase Offer will be made and implemented exclusively in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is not being made and is not intended to be made as a takeover offer under the provisions of other legal systems. No other registrations, approvals or authorizations of the offer document and/or the Purchase Offer with securities regulatory authorities of other jurisdictions have been applied for or are intended. Therefore, the Bidder assumes no responsibility for compliance with legal provisions other than those of the Federal Republic of Germany and the SHW Shareholders cannot rely on the application of other foreign provisions for the protection of investors.

There are no documents other than the offer document that form part of the Purchase Offer. The Bidder will publish the offer document in German language in the German Federal Gazette (Bundesanzeiger) and on the Internet here at https://www.piererindustrie.at.

The publication, dispatch, distribution or dissemination of the offer document or other documents related to the Purchase Offer may fall within the scope of jurisdictions other than that of the Federal Republic of Germany in which the publication, dispatch, distribution or dissemination of the offer document is subject to legal restrictions. The offer document and other documents related to the Purchase Offer may not be sent by third parties to countries or published, disseminated or distributed there if and to the extent that such sending, publication, dissemination or distribution would violate applicable legal provisions or is dependent on compliance with official procedures or the granting of a permit or the fulfillment of further requirements and these are not met.

The Bidder has not permitted the publication, dispatch, distribution or dissemination of the offer document or other documents related to the Purchase Offer by third parties outside the Federal Republic of Germany. The Bidder does not warrant that the dispatch, distribution or dissemination of the offer document or other documents related to the Purchase Offer complies with applicable legal provisions of jurisdictions other than the Federal Republic of Germany. Any liability of the Bidder for non-compliance with foreign regulations by third parties is expressly excluded.

The contents on the following internet pages do not constitute an invitation to submit an offer for the sale of SHW Shares. With the exception of the offer document, announcements on the following Internet pages also do not constitute an offer to purchase SHW Shares and are not intended to constitute the issuance of a promise or the assumption of any other legal obligation by the Bidder. An offer to purchase SHW Shares is made solely in accordance with the provisions of the offer document. Shareholders of SHW AG are advised to read the offer document as well as all other documents related to the Purchase Offer as they contain important information and, if necessary, to seek independent advice in order to obtain an expert assessment of the contents of the offer document and the Purchase Offer.