We want to provide you with answers to questions which came up after the call
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Dexia S.A. (Belgium) has informed us that its voting rights on Deutsche EuroShop have exceeded the 3% threshold and amount to 3.02% (1,559,004 shares; total number of DES' shares: 51,631,400).
We want to take this occasion to update our shareholder structure.
Deutsche EuroShop now has around 10,000 shareholders (as at: 27 July 2011). The structural distribution is very stable: institutional investors hold around 56% of the shares, and private investors around 29%. The Otto familys stake is 15%. The investment company BlackRock currently holds 3.3% of the shares, Dexia - as already mentioned - holds 3.02%.
Since a few weeks we have a new image video. It perfectly describes the fascination of our shopping centers. It's all about emotion.
The commercial shows various characters who experience their visit to a shopping center from a very personal perspective.
It started weak: in 2001 - Deutsche EuroShop was public for just five months - only 37% of the Company's share capital was represented in DES' first AGM as listed company. In 2002 we saw the other extreme with 88%.
For some years now it seems to normalise: around 57% of the Company's share capital was represented on average in the last eight years in our annual shareholders' meetings.