The Hertie Foundation has informed us that its voting rights on Deutsche EuroShop have exceeded the 3% threshold and amount to 3.019% (1,558,890 shares; total number of DES' shares: 51,631,400).

We want to take this occasion to update our shareholder structure.

Deutsche EuroShop has around 9,800 shareholders (as at: 15 August 2011).

The structural distribution is very stable: institutional investors hold around 56% of the shares, and private investors around 29%. The Otto family’s stake is 15%. The investment company BlackRock currently holds 3.3% of the shares, Dexia 3.02% and Hertie Foundation 3.019%.