At today's meeting, the Supervisory Board of Sartorius AG approved the Executive Board's recommendation to submit a proposal to the Annual General Shareholders' Meeting on March 26, 2020, to pay dividends of 0.71 euro per preference share and 0.70 euro per ordinary share.

Prior-year dividends were 0.62 euro and 0.61 euro per preference share and per ordinary share, respectively. Therefore, the total amount disbursed under this proposal would increase by 14.6% to 48.2 million euros from 42.1 million euros a year earlier.

This press release contains forward-looking statements about the future development of the Sartorius Group. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Sartorius assumes no liability for updating such statements in light of new information or future events. This is a translation of the original German-language press release. Sartorius shall not assume any liability for the correctness of this translation. The original German press release is the legally binding version.

Financial calender

February 18, 2020 Annual press conference

March 26, 2020 Annual Shareholders' Meeting

April 21, 2020 Publication of first-quarter figures

(January to March 2020)

Executive Board and Supervisory Board resolve dividend proposal of EUR 0.71 per preference share and EUR 0.70 per ordinary share

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