voestalpine AG approved a dividend of EUR 1.10 per share for the business year 2018 – 2019, at the Annual General Meeting held on July 3, 2019. The current dividend represents a decline of 21.4% compared with the dividend of EUR 1.40 for the previous business year. The dividend will be disbursed starting on July 15, 2019, ex-dividend date is July 11, 2019 and corresponds to the dividend paid for the-good-business year 2016/17.

As of the close of Annual General Meeting, Herbert Eibensteiner took over as the Chairman of the Management Board of voestalpine AG from Wolfgang Eder, who served in this position for more than 15 years. Henceforth, Hubert Zajicek, who previously served as the Steel Division's Head of Technology, will lead the division and thus complete the Management Board of voestalpine AG, which will have six members as before. The personnel changes also brought about a partial reassignment of the Group functions between the members of the Management Board. From now on, CEO Herbert Eibensteiner will be responsible for Corporate Development, RD and Innovation Strategy, Corporate Human Resources, Corporate Communications and Market Presence, Legal, Compliance, MA, Strategic Environmental Management, Investor Relations, Information Competence Center (Trade Statistics), and Internal Auditing. Robert Ottel, the Chief Financial Officer, will now also be responsible for Information Technology. Franz Rotter, Head of the High Performance Metals Division, transfers responsibility for Procurement to Peter Schwab, Head of the Metal Forming Division, and thus will be responsible solely for Health Safety. Starting immediately, Hubert Zajicek, Head of the Steel Division, will be responsible for Raw Materials. Franz Kainersdorfer, Head of the Metal Engineering Division, will continue to be responsible for the Group's Energy Supply in the long term. The following individuals were newly elected to the Supervisory Board of voestalpine AG: Dr. Wolfgang Eder, up to now Chairman of the company's Management Board; Mag. Ingrid Jorg, President of Aerospace Transportation, Constellium, Zurich; Dr. Florian Khol, a Partner at the law firm of Binder Grosswang Rechtsanwalte GmbH, Vienna; Mag. Maria Kubitschek, Deputy Director of the Austrian Chamber of Labor/Chamber of Workers and Employees, Vienna and Prof. Elisabeth Stadler, Chairwoman of the Management Board of Vienna Insurance Group AG. The following individuals stepped down from the Supervisory Board: Dr. Hans-Peter Hagen, Dr. Michael Kutschera, Prof. Emerita Dr. Helga Nowotny, Ph.D., and Mag. Dr. Josef Peischer. As a result, the newly constituted Supervisory Bo ard of voestalpine AG once again has eight shareholder representatives. Together with Sandra Fritz, who was appointed by the Group Works Council, the 12-member Supervisory Board has a total of four female members. All members' terms of office run until the Annual General Meeting 2024. The following members represent the workforce on the Supervisory Board: in addition to Ms. Sandra Fritz, as before Mr. Hans-Karl Schaller, Chairman of the Group Works Council and the European Works Council of voestalpine AG; Mr. Josef Gritz, Chairman of the Works Council for Wage Earners of voestalpine Stahl Donawitz GmbH and Mr. Gerhard Scheidreiter, Chairman of the Works Council for Wage Earners of voestalpine Bohler Edelstahl GmbH Co KG.