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On June 18, 2013, BlackRock Advisors Holding, Inc., New York, NY, USA has informed us according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG that via shares its Voting Rights on K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel, Deutschland, have exceeded the 3% threshold of the Voting Rights on June 14, 2013 and on that day amounted to 3.001% (this corresponds to 5743409 Voting Rights). According to Article 22, Section 1, Sentence 1, No. 6 in connection with sentence 2 of the WpHG, 3.001% of the Voting Rights (this corresponds to 5743409 Voting Rights) is to be attributed to the company.

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On June 03, 2013, BlackRock Advisors Holdings, Inc., New York, NY, USA has informed us according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG that via shares its Voting Rights on K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel, Deutschland, have fallen below the 3% threshold of the Voting Rights on May 30, 2013 and on that day amounted to 2.99% (this corresponds to 5723453 Voting Rights).
According to Article 22, Section 1, Sentence 1, No. 6 in connection with sentence 2 of the WpHG, 2.99% of the Voting Rights (this corresponds to 5723453 Voting Rights) is to be attributed to the company.

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1. On May 31, 2013, Prudential plc, London, England has informed us according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG that via shares its Voting Rights on K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel, Deutschland, have fallen below the 3% threshold of the Voting Rights on May 29, 2013 and on that day amounted to 2.9921% (this corresponds to 5726980 Voting Rights).
According to Article 22, Section 1, Sentence 1, No. 6 in connection with sentence 2 of the WpHG, 2.9921% of the Voting Rights (this corresponds to 5726980 Voting Rights) is to be attributed to the company.

2. On May 31, 2013, M&G Investment Management Limited, London, England has informed us according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG that via shares its Voting Rights on K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel, Deutschland, have fallen below the 3% threshold of the Voting Rights on May 29, 2013 and on that day amounted to 2.9921% (this corresponds to 5726980 Voting Rights).
According to Article 22, Section 1, Sentence 1, No. 6 of the WpHG, 2.9921% of the Voting Rights (this corresponds to 5726980 Voting Rights) is to be attributed to the company.

3. On May 31, 2013, M&G Securities Limited, London, England has informed us according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG that via shares its Voting Rights on K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel, Deutschland, have fallen below the 3% threshold of the Voting Rights on May 29, 2013 and on that day amounted to 2.8730% (this corresponds to 5499108 Voting Rights).
According to Article 22, Section 1, Sentence 1, No. 6 of the WpHG, 2.8730% of the Voting Rights (this corresponds to 5499108 Voting Rights) is to be attributed to the company.

4. On May 31, 2013, M&G Limited, London, England has informed us according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG that via shares its Voting Rights on K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel, Deutschland, have fallen below the 3% threshold of the Voting Rights on May 29, 2013 and on that day amounted to 2.9921% (this corresponds to 5726980 Voting Rights).
According to Article 22, Section 1, Sentence 1, No. 6 in connection with sentence 2 of the WpHG, 2.9921% of the Voting Rights (this corresponds to 5726980 Voting Rights) is to be attributed to the company.

5. On May 31, 2013, M&G Group Limited, London, England has informed us according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG that via shares its Voting Rights on K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel, Deutschland, have fallen below the 3% threshold of the Voting Rights on May 29, 2013 and on that day amounted to 2.9921% (this corresponds to 5726980 Voting Rights).
According to Article 22, Section 1, Sentence 1, No. 6 in connection with sentence 2 of the WpHG, 2.9921% of the Voting Rights (this corresponds to 5726980 Voting Rights) is to be attributed to the company.

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On May 20, 2013, BlackRock Advisors Holdings, Inc., New York, NY, USA has informed us according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG that via shares its Voting Rights on K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel, Deutschland, have exceeded the 3% threshold of the Voting Rights on May 16, 2013 and on that day amounted to 3.02% (this corresponds to 5783490 Voting Rights). According to Article 22, Section 1, Sentence 1, No. 6 in connection with sentence 2 of the WpHG, 3.02% of the Voting Rights (this corresponds to 5783490 Voting Rights) is to be attributed to the company.

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Total amount traded: 986.40
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“We have made a very decent start to the new year,” said Norbert Steiner, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of K+S Aktiengesellschaft, speaking at today’s Annual General Meeting of the Company in Kassel. “Our Potash and Magnesium Products business unit achieved its best first quarter so far.” Following the conclusion of contracts by North American and Russian producers with Chinese and Indian customers at the beginning of the year, demand for fertilizers rose significantly again in time for the start of the spring season in Europe and North America as well as in South America and South East Asia and prices stabilised. “In the Salt business unit, continued wintry weather in Europe at the start of the year resulted in above-average demand for de-icing salt, which was significantly above the low level of the same period a year ago,” Steiner continues. In the United States and in Canada, demand normalised following an extraordinarily mild winter in the same quarter a year ago.

Revenues rise significantly

In the first quarter, revenues of the K+S Group rose by € 199.7 million to € 1.28 billion, an increase of 19 % on the figure for the same period a year ago. On the one hand, this development can be attributed to a volume-related increase in revenues in the Potash and Magnesium Products business unit that could more than offset a moderate price decrease. On the other hand, the Salt business unit, too, could increase its revenues significantly as a result of volume factors. Totalling 8.91 million tonnes, sales volumes of crystallised salt were up 44 % on what was a below-average figure for the same period a year ago (Q1/12: 6.18 million tonnes).

In the first three months of 2013, 49 % of the K+S Group’s revenues were generated by the Potash and Magnesium Products business unit, followed by the Salt business unit (48 %) and the Complementary Activities (about 3 %). In Europe, the K+S Group posted a revenue share of approximately 43 % while North America accounted for 34 %. About 11 % of revenues were generated in South America and 10 % in Asia.

Operating earnings improve by 12 %

In the first quarter of 2013, operating earnings EBIT I increased by € 30.2 million or 12 % to € 277.9 million. In the Potash and Magnesium Products business unit, the volume-related increase in revenues, price-related cost reductions as well as positive currency effects could more than offset the effect from changes in inventories as well as higher depreciation and amortisation. In the Salt business unit, the above-average de-icing salt business in Europe caused operating earnings to rise compared with the exceptionally weak quarter of a year ago.

Adjusted Group earnings from continued operations also up on a year ago

In the first quarter, adjusted Group earnings from continued operations rose by € 21.9 million or 13 % to € 190.2 million (Q1/12: € 168.3 million). In the quarter under review, adjusted earnings per share from continued operations reached € 0.99 and were thus about 13 % above previous year’s figure of € 0.88.

Outlook for 2013 confirmed

In the financial year 2013, revenues of the K+S Group should increase slightly against the previous year. While a price-related revenue decrease can be assumed for the Potash and Magnesium Products business unit, higher revenues are expected in the Salt business unit as a result of volume factors. As far as the operating earnings EBIT I of the K+S Group are concerned, from today’s perspective, there is an opportunity to slightly increase the figure for the year 2013 compared with the year 2012. In this context, the anticipated drop in earnings in the Potash and Magnesium Products business unit should be more than made up for by the earnings improvement in the Salt business unit resulting from the normalisation of the de-icing salt business.

(Further details concerning the outlook can be found on page 20 of the Q1/13 Quarterly Financial Report.)

Experience growth

K+S is one of the world's leading suppliers of standard and speciality fertilizers. In the salt business, K+S is the world’s leading producer with sites in Europe as well as North and South America. K+S offers a comprehensive range of goods and services for agriculture, industry, and private consumers, which provides growth opportunities in virtually every sphere of daily life. Worldwide, the K+S Group employs more than 14,000 people. The K+S share – the commodities stock on the German DAX index – is listed on all German stock exchanges (ISIN: DE000KSAG888, symbol: SDF). More information about K+S at www.k-plus-s.com.

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The Quarterly Financial Report and the Q1/13 Facts & Figures are available at www.k-plus-s.com/2013q1en on our website.

Today’s Annual General Meeting of K+S Aktiengesellschaft will be transmitted live on the Internet at www.k-plus-s.com/agm starting from 10 a.m. until the end of the speech given by Norbert Steiner, the chairman of the Board of Executive Directors. In addition, the speech will be available there for download starting from 10 a.m., as will a video with extracts from the speech by the chairman of the Board of Executive Directors starting from about 2 p.m.

Current pictorial material concerning the K+S Group and photos of today’s Annual General Meeting will also be available on the Internet at www.k-plus-s.com/agm starting from about 12 p.m.

A conference call in English will take place on 15 May 2013 at 3 p.m. Norbert Steiner, chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, and Dr. Burkhard Lohr, chief financial officer, will take part in it. Representatives of the press, shareholders, investors, and all other interested parties are invited to follow the conference via a live webcast at www.k-plus-s.com/2013q1en or by phone on +49-69-71044-5598. The conference is being recorded and will also be available as a podcast.

At the ceremonial signing of an agreement in Kassel today, K+S and the non-governmental organisation Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) announced the launch of their joint “Growth for Uganda” African project. The goal is to develop agricultural consultancy services in the East African country with a view to increasing productivity among small-scale farmers as well as improving their self-sufficiency in food and their income situation.

“We are delighted to be able to launch the aid project together with our competent partner, Sasakawa, and we firmly believe that both the farmers and people in Uganda as well as we ourselves will benefit from this over the long term,” said Norbert Steiner, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of K+S Aktiengesellschaft, speaking at today’s signing of the agreement, which took place at the headquarters of the Company in Kassel.

Together with its partner Sasakawa, K+S wants to establish a mobile teaching unit to train plant cultivation consultants amongst others. In addition, best management practices are to be developed for the cultivation of regionally typical crops (e.g., corn, cassava). This will include both those crops that ensure the feeding of farmers as well as those that farmers can sell to earn an income. K+S is in turn becoming very familiar with the situation of small-scale farmers on the ground, gaining new insights into the functioning of the local markets, and can better tailor the range of goods that it offers towards African needs over the long term. This results in a transfer of knowledge from which both sides benefit over the long-term.

Uganda, which is located in East Africa, has great agricultural development potential that has to be tapped into, and K+S wants to participate in. The soil is quite good, but may be lacking in some important nutrients (such as potassium), and only a small percentage of the fields are irrigated. About one third (31%) of Uganda’s rapidly growing population of just under 35 million inhabitants lives in poverty and about 8 million are food-insecure. About 66 % of the population  lives in the countryside and is dependent on being self-sufficient. The composition of Uganda’s soil is comparable to that of Brazil. In terms of fertilizer use, which is less than 1 kg per hectare of land under cultivation, Uganda displays a comparable degree of backlog demand (by comparison: Sub-Saharan Africa 3 kg/ha, all Africa 8 kg/ha).

About the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA)

The Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) is an international agricultural development non-governmental organisation registered in Geneva/Switzerland. It was co-founded in 1986 by Japanese philanthropist Ryoichi Sasakawa, Nobel Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug, and former US President Jimmy Carter. The SAA cooperates with the Carter Center’s Global 2000 Program for the development of agricultural projects in 14 sub-Saharan countries. The SAA is currently focussing its resources on the African countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mali and Uganda. Along with national partners, the SAA projects provide support to smallholder farmers by encouraging the adoption of higher-yielding varieties and enhanced production practices. More information about the SAA at www.saa-safe.org.

About K+S

The K+S Group is one of the world's leading suppliers of standard and speciality fertilizers. In the salt business, K+S is the world’s leading producer with sites in Europe as well as North and South America. K+S offers a comprehensive range of goods and services for agriculture, industry, and private consumers, which provides growth opportunities in virtually every sphere of daily life. The K+S Group employs more than 14,000 people worldwide. The K+S share – the commodities stock on the German DAX index – is listed on all German stock exchanges (ISIN: DE000KSAG888, symbol: SDF). More information about K+S at www.k-plus-s.com.

Within the K+S Group, K+S KALI GmbH is responsible for the Potash and Magnesium Products area. In six mines in Germany, the Company mines salts containing potash, magnesium and sulphur and produces a wide range of high-quality products from them for the agricultural, industrial, healthcare and food sectors. In addition, consulting is a key element in the range of services offered by the business unit. A team of consultants, consisting of regional consultants as well as globally active agriculturalists, provide important information and suggestions for innovations in relation to the use of fertilizers in agriculture. More information at www.kali-gmbh.com.

The Supervisory Board today has approved the decision of the Board ofExecutive Directors to increase the capex budget for the new plant to 4.1billion CAD (approx. 3 billion EUR). The so far assessed 3.25 billion CAD were based on the feasibility study conducted in November 2011.

Taking all data of the profitability calculation into account the projectis economically attractive and still fulfills the requirement of the Group,to earn a 15% premium on the cost of capital before taxes. The Financingwill be ensured by existing liquidity, future cash flows and new debt.

With the expected commissioning in summer 2016 the company still projectsto reach the two-million-tonnes-mark of production capacity at the newlocation at the end of 2017. The gradual extension of the annual capacityto 2.86 million tonnes of potash products will occur afterwards. So far thecompany assumed a production start at the end of 2015.

K+S Aktiengesellschaft
Kassel, 22 April 2013
The Board of Executive Directors 

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K+S is committed to continuing the construction of the new potash plant in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. This includes the basic engineering and cost analysis of the major subprojects which is now at an advanced stage. The Supervisory Board which is always promptly and closely involved in all phases of the project has approved the decision of the Board of Executive Directors to increase the capex budget for the new plant to 4.1 billion CAD (about 3 billion €). The so far assessed 3.25 billion CAD were based on the feasibility study conducted in November 2011.

The now presented plan includes investments into K+S’s own infrastructure, modifications of plant components and infrastructure as well as increased material and labor costs. The adjustments to the budget were identified in a very early stage of the project. “The additional findings strengthen the predictability, transparency and controlling as well as our major project overall,” says Norbert Steiner, Chairman of the Executive Board of Directors of K+S.

“In the future, the new plant will be the main source for distributing to the emerging regions in Asia, South America and as well to North America. Legacy strengthens the K+S Group’s competitiveness and opens attractive prospects for many decades,” Steiner emphasizes. “Legacy is an important part of the future of K+S. Taking all data of the profitability calculation into account the project is economically attractive and still fulfills the requirement of the Group, to earn a 15% premium on the cost of capital before taxes. The K+S Group has a solid balance sheet. The Financing will be ensured by existing liquidity, future cash flows and new debt. “The dividend policy of the company will remain unaffected by the decision to increase the capital expenditure,” Steiner concludes.

With the expected commissioning in summer 2016 the company still projects to reach the two-million-tonnes-mark of production capacity at the new location at the end of 2017. The gradual extension of the annual capacity to 2.86 million tonnes of potash products will occur afterwards. So far the company assumed a production start at the end of 2015. The annual production capacity of the existing K+S sites is up to 7.5 million tonnes of potash and magnesium products.

About the Legacy Project

Legacy is a greenfield project for the setting up of a potash production on the basis of solution mining in the south of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. With Legacy K+S will be the only potash producer with large and own production facilities on two continents. The new potash plant will complement the German production network, reduce the average production costs and extend the average lifetime of the mines. In addition, Legacy will strengthen K+S’s competitiveness significantly which will bolster the total K+S Group as a result. More information about the Legacy Project at www.ks-potashcanada.com.

Experience growth

K+S is one of the world's leading suppliers of standard and speciality fertilizers. In the salt business, K+S is the world’s leading producer with sites in Europe as well as North and South America. K+S offers a comprehensive range of goods and services for agriculture, industry, and private consumers, which provides growth opportunities in virtually every sphere of daily life. Worldwide, the K+S Group employs more than 14,000 people. The K+S share – the commodities stock on the German DAX index – is listed on all German stock exchanges (ISIN: DE000KSAG888, symbol: SDF). More information about K+S at www.k-plus-s.com.

In January 2013, the „K+S MINT-Ambassadors“ began working and started to intensify the contact to local schools. They want to promote MINT and at the same time K+S as a company.

The idea of MINT-Ambassadors is an integral part of the initiative „MINT Zukunft schaffen“ under the patronage of Chancellor Angela Merkel. The initiative combines nationwide activities and measures around MINT. Since its inception in 2008, more than 10000 measures have been realized and more than 9000 ambassadors have been announced.

Michael Vassiliadis, Chairman of the Mining, Chemicals and Energy Trade Union (IG BCE) and Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of K+S AG, and Ralf Becker, State District Manager of IG BCE, were re-elected to the body as employee representatives appointed by the trade unions.

Axel Hartmann, Deputy Chairman of the Joint Works Council, was newly elected to the Supervisory Board of K+S Aktiengesellschaft as an employee representative. Rüdiger Kienitz, member of the Works Council of the Werra plant, Klaus Krüger, Chairman of the Collective Works Council, Dieter Kuhn, first Vice Chairman of the Collective Works Council and Harald Döll, Chairman of the Works Council of the Werra plant, were confirmed in office.

Dr. Rainer Gerling, Head of the Werra plant, was re-elected as representative of the senior employees.

The terms of office of those elected start to run from the end of the Ordinary Annual General Meeting of K+S Aktiengesellschaft on 14 May 2013 and end with the close of the Ordinary Annual General Meeting of 2018.

Experience growth

K+S is one of the world's leading suppliers of standard and speciality fertilizers. In the salt business, K+S is the world’s leading producer with sites in Europe as well as North and South America. K+S offers a comprehensive range of goods and services for agriculture, industry, and private consumers, which provides growth opportunities in virtually every sphere of daily life. Worldwide, the K+S Group employs more than 14,000 people. The K+S share – the commodities stock on the German DAX index – is listed on all German stock exchanges (ISIN: DE000KSAG888, symbol: SDF). More information about K+S at www.k-plus-s.com.

K+S was also able to hold its own against renowned competitors from outside the industry, and scored in all four of the recruitment service aspects examined: online presence, vacancy advertising, candidate liaison and candidate feedback. The study also takes candidates' personal experiences into account by asking them the following questions: How are potential candidates addressed when advertising vacancies either online or otherwise? How does the company respond to enquiries and speculative applications? And how do the candidates rate their potential employer's performance? For K+S, these questions have now been answered: brilliantly!

Dr. Ralf Diekmann, Managing Director of K+S KALI GmbH, welcomes the VGH’s ruling: “For the employees of the Werra plant, for the region and for our whole Company, it is good news that production, which depends on proper means of disposal, can be maintained at full capacity. Above all, our argumentation has been confirmed by the decision of the court with welcome clarity”.

The court has dealt with the material and formal aspects of the complaint very extensively. In its statement of grounds for the ruling, it comes to the conclusion that the permit was granted without procedural errors. Primarily, the court also finds no concrete indications of a hazard to the drinking water supply of the municipality of Gerstungen. The opposing arguments of the applicants and of the expert appointed by them, Dr. habil. Ralf Krupp, were rejected by the court as an unproven hypothesis.

The considerations of the regional council of Kassel regarding the issuing of the injection permits were examined by the court, which confirmed that the permit took into reasonable consideration the public and private interests in maintaining potash production at the Werra plant and that the permit is therefore acceptable. The court underlines the public interest in preserving jobs in the potash industry and emphasises the importance of the Werra plant in the supply of domestic raw materials to the agricultural sector and industry.

For many years, K+S KALI GmbH has been working intensively to minimise adverse effects on the environment from potash production. At the Werra plant, a package of measures on water protection is currently being implemented, which with investments of € 360 million by the end of 2015 will lead to a further significant reduction in saline wastewater.

About K+S KALI GmbH

In six mines in Germany, including the Werra Verbund plant, K+S KALI GmbH mines crude salts containing potash, magnesium and sulphur and produces a wide range of high-quality products from them for the agricultural, industrial, healthcare and food sectors. Of the more than 8,000 people employed by the Company, some 5,000 are based at the production sites in Hesse and Thuringia. More information about K+S KALI GmbH can be found on the Company’s website at www.kali-gmbh.com.

With a doctorate in mining engineering, he brings high strategic competence and far-reaching international marketing know-how from the energy industry with him. Since 2009, he has been CEO of RWE Turkey Holding A.S., Istanbul. Before that, he was a member of the Executive Board of RWE Energy AG, Dortmund, for six years. “We warmly welcome Dr. Andreas Radmacher to our team and look forward to working with him”, said Norbert Steiner, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of K+S Aktiengesellschaft, who temporarily has also been responsible for the Potash and Magnesium Products business unit since October 2012.

Dr. Radmacher is married with two children.

Information for editors

A photograph and the CV of Dr. Andreas Radmacher can be found on the Internet under www.k-plus-s.com.

Experience growth

K+S is one of the world's leading suppliers of standard and speciality fertilizers. In the salt business, K+S is the world’s leading producer with sites in Europe as well as North and South America. K+S offers a comprehensive range of goods and services for agriculture, industry, and private consumers, which provides growth opportunities in virtually every sphere of daily life. Worldwide, the K+S Group employs more than 14,000 people. The K+S share – the commodities stock on the German DAX index – is listed on all German stock exchanges (ISIN: DE000KSAG888, symbol: SDF). More information about K+S at www.k-plus-s.com.

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issuer: K+S Aktiengesellschaft Bertha-von-Suttner-Straße 7 D-34131 Kassel phone: +49 (0)561 9301-1460 FAX: +49 (0)561 9301-2425 mail: investor-relations@k-plus-s.com WWW: http://www.k-plus-s.com sector: Chemicals ISIN: DE000KSAG888 indexes: DAX, Midcap Market Index, CDAX, Classic All Share, HDAX, Prime All Share

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

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Name: BlackRock Advisors Holdings, Inc. Place: New York, NY State: U.S.A.

BlackRock Advisors Holdings, Inc., New York, USA, informed us pursuant to Section 21 Paragraph 1 WpHG that their percentage holding of the voting rights in K+S Aktiengesellschaft fell below the threshold of 3% on 12.03.2013 and amounts to 2.98% (5,705,558 voting shares) on that day. All of the voting rights are attributable to BlackRock Advisors Holdings, Inc., pursuant to Section 22 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 No. 6 in connection with Sentence 2 WpHG.

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issuer: K+S Aktiengesellschaft Bertha-von-Suttner-Straße 7 D-34131 Kassel phone: +49 (0)561 9301-1460 FAX: +49 (0)561 9301-2425 mail: investor-relations@k-plus-s.com WWW: http://www.k-plus-s.com sector: Chemicals ISIN: DE000KSAG888 indexes: DAX, Midcap Market Index, CDAX, Classic All Share, HDAX, Prime All Share

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"Overall, 2012 was a successful year for the K+S Group. Our Potash and Magnesium Products business unit achieved its second best result ever", states Norbert Steiner, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of K+S Aktiengesellschaft, at the Company’s annual results press conference. "For 2012, we will propose to the Annual General Meeting a 10 cent higher dividend of € 1.40 per share", continues Steiner.

2012 revenues almost at the level of the previous year

At € 3.9 billion, revenues for financial year 2012 were almost on the same level as the previous year (€ 4.0 billion). Negative volume effects could almost be offset by positive currency and price effects. The Potash and Magnesium Products business unit achieved revenue growth mainly due to higher average prices as well as the positive development of exchange rates. At 6.95 million tonnes of goods, the sales volume remained stable in comparison to 2011. Salt business unit revenues fell tangibly, especially as a result of mild and dry weather conditions, after having benefited from an above-average winter in the previous year.

As expected, operating earnings down on previous year

The key performance indicator of the K+S Group, operating earnings EBIT I, fell in 2012 by around 11 % to € 808.5 million (2011: € 906.2 million) and was thus very close to the most recently submitted forecast of about € 820 million. The forecast figure would have been achieved without the expense of € 10.7 million arising from the disposal of three vessels as part of the fleet-renewal-programme of the Chilean shipping company Empremar. At 20.5 %, the EBIT margin was again at a very high level (2011: 22.7 %).

The Potash and Magnesium Products business unit was able to increase its operating earnings mainly as a result of higher average prices across the overall product range. These were able to more than compensate cost increases. With an EBIT I of € 773.9 million (+4.7 % against the previous year), the business unit achieved the second best annual result since 2008. Due to the weaker de-icing business and the higher proportion of fixed costs customary in the mining industry, the earnings of the Salt business unit decreased strongly to € 62.4 million (2011: € 211.4 million). Cost savings were able to mitigate this decrease to some extent.

Lower adjusted Group earnings

Adjusted Group earnings from continued operations fell by € 84.8 million or 14 % to € 540.8 million (2011: € 625.6 million) and thus mainly followed the development of operating earnings. This resulted in adjusted earnings per share from continued operations for the year under review of € 2.83, corresponding to a decrease of 13 % (2011: € 3.27).

Positive effect from divestment of the Nitrogen business

Due to the effect of the divestment of the nitrogen fertilizer segment, adjusted Group earnings including discontinued operations rose to € 639.7 million (2011: € 581.8 million). These discontinued operations accounted for € 98.9 million.

(Detailed information about the divestment of the Nitrogen business can be found in the Financial Report 2012 in the Notes to the consolidated financial statements on page 168).

Higher dividend proposal intended for 2012

The adjusted earnings per share of the K+S Group including discontinued operations, which serve as the basis for the dividend payment, increased to € 3.34 due to the effect of this divestment of the Nitrogen business, after having been € 3.04 in the previous year. This places the Board of Executive Directors and the Supervisory Board in the position to propose to the Annual General Meeting an increase of the dividend for 2012 by 10 cents to € 1.40 per share. This corresponds to a payout ratio of 42 %.

Fourth quarter 2012: Lower revenues and decreased earnings

The absence of contracts of North American and Russian potash producers to be concluded with Chinese and Indian customers led to price pressure for international quotations for potassium chloride from the end of the third quarter of 2012 also in the markets relevant for K+S. On 31 December 2012, the North American export organization Canpotex then announced that it had concluded a new potash supply contract with China for the first half of 2013.

In the fourth quarter, the wintry weather conditions that set in at the end of November in Western Europe led to an overall average start to the winter season 2012/13. In the United States and in Canada, the winter that began late in December was, however, not sufficient for the multi-year average sales volumes to be achieved overall in the fourth quarter.

At € 941.6 million, the revenues of the K+S Group in the fourth quarter of 2012 were about 8 % below the figure for the previous year of € 1,021.5 million. At € 183.2 million, operating earnings EBIT I remained about 12 % below the level of the previous year. In the fourth quarter, adjusted Group earnings from continued operations fell by around 12 % to € 131.6 million (Q4/2011: € 149.9 million).

K+S Group with attractive prospects

K+S Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors Norbert Steiner anticipates a positive business development for 2013: "In the Salt business unit, we expect a tangible recovery for sales volumes, if only because of the wintry weather conditions at the start of this year. In the Potash and Magnesium Products business unit, given the important agreements concluded with China and India, we expect the sales volumes to be at the high level of the previous year once again, albeit at a lower average price level. All in all, we expect the K+S Group to achieve a slight increase in revenues and operating earnings. For 2014, we also see opportunities for a slight increase in revenues and earnings in comparison to 2013", Steiner continues.

(For further details about the outlook in the Financial Report 2012, see page 139.)

Experience growth

K+S is one of the world's leading suppliers of standard and specialty fertilizers. In the salt sector, K+S is the world’s leading producer with sites in Europe as well as North and South America. K+S offers a comprehensive range of goods and services for agriculture, industry, and private consumers, which provides growth opportunities in virtually every sphere of daily life. The K+S Group employs more than 14,000 people worldwide. The K+S share – the commodities stock on the German DAX index – is listed on all German stock exchanges (ISIN: DE000KSAG888, symbol: SDF). More information about K+S can be found at www.k-plus-s.com.

Note to editors

The Financial Report 2012, the Corporate and Sustainability Report 2012 and the K+S Q4/12 Facts & Figures are available under www.k-plus-s.com/2012q4en  on our website. Furthermore, a video message by Norbert Steiner, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, about the course of business and from 10 a.m., the talk by Norbert Steiner, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, and Dr. Burkhard Lohr, member of the Board of Executive Directors, for today’s K+S annual results press conference in Frankfurt am Main will be available there.

A analysts’ conference in English will be held today at 1 p.m. also in Frankfurt am Main. Norbert Steiner and the members of the Board of Executive Directors, Dr. Burkhard Lohr and Mark Roberts, will take part in it. Shareholders, investors, representatives of the press and all other interested parties are invited to follow the conference via a live webcast at (www.k-plus-s.com/en/audio-und-video/cc.html) or by phone on +49-69-6677-75757; PIN 3564773#. The conference is being recorded and will also be available as a podcast.