EANS-Voting Rights: Symrise AG / Release according to article 26, section 1 WpHG (Securities Trading Act) with the aim of Europe

PR Newswire/euro adhoc/ EANS-Voting Rights: Symrise AG / Release according to article 26, section 1 WpHG (Securities Trading Act) with the aim of Europe-wide distribution Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is responsible for the content of this announcement.

Announcement according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG (share)

Person/company obliged to make the notification: ----------------------------------- Name: see below Place: see below State: see below

Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC, Wilmington, Delaware, USA, informed us on November 14, 2012 in accordance with Section 21 Paragraph 1 of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG) that its share of voting rights in Symrise AG exceeded the 3 % threshold on November 13, 2012 and as of this day amounts to 3.007 %. This corresponds to 3,553,985 votes.

This 3.007 % (3,553,985 votes) is attributed to it in accordance with Section 22 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 No. 6 of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG).

Further inquiry note: Symrise AG Investor Relations Mühlenfeldstrasse 1 D 37603 Holzminden E-mail: IR@symrise.com Tel.: +49 5531 901 879 Internet: www.symrise.de

issuer: Symrise AG

Mühlenfeldstraße 1

D-37603 Holzminden phone: +49 (0) 5531/90-0 FAX: +49 (0) 5531/90-1649 mail: ir@symrise.com WWW: http://www.symrise.com sector: Chemicals ISIN: DE000SYM9999 indexes: MDAX stockmarkets: free trade: Hannover, Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf,

Stuttgart, regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt language: English

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