Pelikan Aktiengesellschaft / Key word(s): Capital Increase 30.04.2015 14:38 Dissemination of an Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG _______________________ Berlin, 30 April 2015 Pelikan AG (previously: Herlitz AG): Entry of the resolutions of the extraordinary shareholders' meeting of 19 December 2014 and implementation of the capital increase by way of a contribution in kind The company announces that, the resolutions on the increase of the share capital of the company against cash and non-cash deposits excluding the statutory option right (ITEM 1) and the amendment of the name of the company/statutes (ITEM 2) as well as implementation of the capital increase by way of a contribution in kind, adopted by the extraordinary shareholders' meeting on 19 December 2014, were entered in the Commercial Register of the company kept by Amtsgericht Charlottenburg on 30 April 2015 under HRB 7129 B. The share capital of the company is now EUR 242,132,235.00 and is divided up into 242,132,235 no-par value bearer shares with an arithmetic share in the share capital of EUR 1.00 each. The company has operated as Pelikan Aktiengesellschaft since 30 April 2015. Implementation of the cash capital increase is still to be carried out. 30.04.2015 The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: Pelikan Aktiengesellschaft Am Borsigturm 100 13507 Berlin Germany Phone: +49 (0)30 43 93-0 Fax: +49 (0)30 43 93-3300 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.herlitz-ag.com ISIN: DE0006053101, DE0006053119 WKN: 605310, 605311 Listed: Regulated Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt (General Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Munich, Stuttgart End of Announcement DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------