TAKKT AG announces preliminary guidelines for the financial year 2008 and decides on fixed price public share buy-back tender offer

Ad-hoc statement, 15 January 2009

The Management Board of TAKKT AG, Stuttgart, (ISIN DE0007446007), has published today the following preliminary guidelines for the financial year 2008:

Due to the significant economic decline during the last quarter of 2008 TAKKT will only achieve an organic turnover growth in 2008 (adjusted for currency and divestment effects) of 0.7 percent. In October 2008 the Management Board still expected an organic growth of about 2 percent. The EBITDA margin for the whole year will be slightly above last year’s level of 14.4 percent – despite the significant economic downturn especially during the last two months of the year 2008.

In addition, the Management Board decided today based on the Annual General Meeting approval dated 7 May 2008 and on the general approval of the Supervisory Board of the company dated 7 May 2008 to offer to purchase from all TAKKT shareholders up to 7,290,000 no par value bearer TAKKT AG shares which amounts to up to ten percent of the company's current share capital.

The acceptance period for the tender offer begins on 21 January 2009 and ends on 10 February 2009 at 24:00 hours (CET). During this period the existing shareholders of TAKKT AG will be able to tender their shares at a fixed price of EUR 7.90 per no par value bearer TAKKT AG shares (excluding any settlement costs). This offer price represents a premium of approx. 2.07 percent to the reference share price of EUR 7.74, being the official closing share price in Xetra trading at Deutsche Börse AG on 12 January 2009. If more than 7,290,000 TAKKT shares are submitted to this offer (over-subscription), then the declarations of acceptance will be considered on a pro rata basis.

Through the repurchase, the Company's equity capital is to be returned to the shareholders and positive effects on the balance sheet structure and the financial ratios per share are to be achieved. The company plans to cancel the repurchased shares.

According to the Management Board's knowledge, Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH, Duisburg, TAKKT AG's major shareholder, intends to participate in this offer.

The offer document is written in German and will be published under the section "Aktie" on the website of TAKKT AG at http://www.takkt.de and in the electronic Federal Gazette at http://www.ebundesanzeiger.de. Additionally, for convenience, a non-binding English translation will be published under the section "Share" on the website of TAKKT AG at http://www.takkt.com.

Conference Call
TAKKT AG will host a conference call on 16 January 2009 at 15:00 hours (CET) during which the Management Board will reply to all questions. You are invited to dial into this conference call under the telephone number +49-711-9659-9628 (Access Code: 779134#).

Stuttgart, 15 January 2009

Contact:

Georg Gayer, CEO
Phone +49 711 34658-201

Dr Florian Funck, CFO
Phone +49 711 34658-207

E-mail: investor@takkt.de