Goldbach Group AG: Definitive interim result regarding the Goldbach acquisition: close to 90 percent of the shares have already been tendered to Tamedia Montag, 26. März 2018 - 07:19

Goldbach Group AG / Key word(s): Offer/Interim Report
Goldbach Group AG: Definitive interim result regarding the Goldbach
acquisition: close to 90 percent of the shares have already been tendered to
Tamedia

26-March-2018 / 07:19 CET/CEST
Release of an ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 KR
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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Definitive interim result regarding the Goldbach acquisition: close to 90
percent of the shares have already been tendered to Tamedia

Küsnacht, 26.03.2018. The definitive interim result of Tamedia's takeover
offer for the Goldbach Group is now available: A total of 89.48 percent of
the Goldbach Group's shares have already been tendered. The grace period
begins tomorrow, Tuesday, 27 March and ends on 11 April 2018 at 4:00 pm.
Tamedia expects that over 90 percent of the Goldbach shares will be tendered
by the end of the grace period and, in this case, intends to have the
Goldbach Group delisted.

On 22 December 2017, the Swiss media group Tamedia made a preliminary
announcement for a public tender offer to purchase all shares issued by the
Goldbach Group AG (ISIN CH0004870942). On 2 February 2018, Tamedia AG
published the detailed Offer Prospectus for the takeover of the Goldbach
Group AG, with an offer of CHF 35.50 for each registered share. As confirmed
by the definitive interim result, a total of 5,631,725 shares of the
Goldbach Group had been tendered to Tamedia by the end of the offer period
on 20 March 2018, 4:00 pm. This represents 89.48 percent of the maximum
number of 6,293,876 Goldbach shares subject to the offer.

     Maximum number of shares    Number of shares    Participation rate
     issued by Goldbach Group    tendered by the     and success rate
                                 offer
     6,293,876                   5,631,725           89.48%
Shareholders who have not yet tendered their shares may do so during the
grace period of 10 trading days between 27 March and 11 April 2018, 4:00 pm
CET. Tamedia expects that over
90 percent of the Goldbach shares will be tendered by the end of the grace
period. In this case, Tamedia plans to pay a cash compensation to the
remaining minority shareholders upon execution and to have the Goldbach
Group delisted.

Subject to fulfilment of certain conditions, Tamedia has declared that the
offer has been successful. The offer remains subject to the offer
restrictions and conditions in the Offer Prospectus, among other things
including the approval of the Swiss Federal Competition Commission. Tamedia
and Goldbach expect to be granted this approval in May or, in the case of an
in-depth review, at the latest by September 2018. It is therefore expected
that the completion of the offer, subject to the fulfilment of all terms and
conditions of the offer, will be postponed accordingly as published in the
Offer Prospectus.

The text of the pre-announcement, the Offer Prospectus and all information
concerning the offer restrictions may be downloaded at
www.tamedia.ch/goldbach


Further information:
Investor Relations
Goldbach Group AG
Lukas Leuenberger
CFO
T +41 44 914 91 00
lukas.leuenberger@goldbachgroup.com
www.goldbachgroup.com

Corporate Communication
Goldbach Group AG
Jürg Bachmann
Head of Communications & Marketing / Public Affairs
M +41 79 600 32 62
juerg.bachmann@goldbachgroup.com
www.goldbachgroup.com


The corporate profile of the Goldbach Group
The Goldbach Group companies market and represent advertising in private
electronic media in the areas of television, radio, digital-out-of-home,
online, search engine and mobile marketing. As an independent aggregator,
Goldbach offers its clients advertising windows where selected target groups
receive commercial information at the right time irrespective of their
location. The Group's core business comprises planning, consulting,
creation, concept development, purchasing and implementation through to
assessment of the deployment of electronic offline and online media and
cross-media campaigns based on data-driven technologies.

The Goldbach Group is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (Swiss Reporting
Standard, security number 487094, ISIN CH0004870942, ticker symbol: GBMN),
is based in Switzerland (Küsnacht ZH) and is active in German-speaking
countries.

Further information:
http://www.goldbachgroup.com/en-us/investor-relations/ad-hoc-press-releases


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