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Linde AG: Executive Board of Linde AG will resume talks with Praxair, Inc. about potential Merger of Equals / Dr Büchele steps down as Chairman and member of the Executive Board of Linde AG / Appointment of Prof Dr Belloni as Chairman of the Executive Boa

Linde AG / Key word(s): Change of Personnel/Merger

07.12.2016 14:37

Disclosure of an inside information according to Article 17 MAR,
transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG.
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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Munich, 7 December 2016 - Today, the Executive Board of Linde AG has
decided, after consultation with the Supervisory Board and on the basis of
the proposal received from the American company Praxair, Inc. to resume
talks about the essential conditions of a potential merger of equals
between the two companies. All members of the Supervisory Board support
resuming the talks.

Dr Wolfgang Büchele offered the Supervisory Board of Linde AG in its
meeting today to step down as a member of the Executive Board, Chairman of
the Executive Board and Arbeitsdirektor of Linde AG effective by end of
today. The Supervisory Board accepted this offer and appointed Prof Dr Aldo
Ernesto Belloni as a member of the Executive Board, Chairman of the
Executive Board and Arbeitsdirektor of Linde AG effective as of 8 December
2016 for a term ceasing 31 December 2018.



Contact:
Person making the notification: Dr Frank Herkenhoff, Head of External
Communications


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Language: English
Company: Linde AG
Klosterhofstraße 1
80331 München
Germany
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Internet: www.linde.de
ISIN: DE0006483001
WKN: 648300
Indices: DAX
Listed: Regulated Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt (Prime
Standard), Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart; Regulated Unofficial
Market in Hanover, Tradegate Exchange; SIX

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