Publication in accordance with § 26 WpHG (October 8, 2010)

October 8, 2010

notification of voting rights

KWS SAAT AG: KWS SAAT AG: Publication in accordance with § 26 (1) WpHG with the goal of Europe-wide distribution

KWS SAAT AG: Publication in accordance with § 26 (1) WpHG

The Future Foundation for Youth, Environment and Culture, 37555 Einbeck, sent us the following communication on October 8, 2010, in accordance with § 21 para. 1 WpHG:

We hereby inform you that, in accordance with § 21 (1) WpHG, on October 7, 2010 we acquired our own voting rights in KWS SAAT AG (ISIN: DE0007074007) of 0.1166% (7,700 votes).

Including mutual allocations, in accordance with § 22 WpHG, our total voting rights share exceeded the thresholds of 3%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30% and 50%, and amounts to 56.097% (3,702,415 votes). In accordance with § 22 (2) sentence 1.1 WpHG, Alt., voting rights of 50.9792% (3,364,630 votes) and voting rights of 5.0012%, pursuant to § 22 (2) sentence 1.2 Alt. WpHG (330,085 votes) are attributable to us.

The following shareholders, whose voting rights in KWS SAAT AG are each 3% or more, are assigned voting rights:

- Büchting Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Hannover

- AKB Foundation, Hanover

- Limited partnership Dr. Arend Oetker Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH & Co., Berlin

- Ms. Elke Giesecke, Altenberge

Einbeck, October 8, 2010

The Executive Board

Language: German
Companies: KWS SAAT AG
Grimsehlstraße 31
37574 Einbeck
Germany
Website: www.kws.de

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