Goettingen – At today’s meeting, the Supervisory Board of Sartorius AG resolved to approve the Executive Board’s dividend proposal. Accordingly, the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board will submit this proposal to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on April 20, 2011, to raise dividends to 0.62 euro per preference share (previous year: 0.42 euro) and to 0.60 euro per ordinary share (previous year: 0.40 euro). Compared with the previous year, the total amount disbursed would thus increase 48.8% from 7.0 million euros to 10.4 million euros.

Moreover, the Supervisory Board agreed to the Executive Board’s plans to transform the Sartorius Group into a holding structure in the future. The individual resolutions required for this will be submitted to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on April 20, 2011. The respective details will be published in the Invitation to the Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting, which can be viewed on the Group’s website at www.sartorius.com/annual-shareholders-meeting and in the electronic German Federal Gazette as of March 14, 2011.

This press release contains statements about the future development of the Sartorius Group. The content of these statements cannot be guaranteed as they are based on assumptions and estimates that harbor certain risks and uncertainties.

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Upcoming Financial Dates:

March 14, 2011: Annual press conference in Goettingen, Germany

April 20, 2011: Annual Shareholders’ Meeting in Goettingen, Germany

April 2011: Publication of the first-quarter results (Jan. – March 2011)

A Profile of Sartorius

The Sartorius Group is a leading international laboratory and process technology provider covering the segments of biotechnology and mechatronics. In 2010, the technology group earned sales revenue of 659.3 million euros. Founded in 1870, the Goettingen-based company currently employs more than 4,500 persons. The major areas of activity in its biotechnology segment focus on filtration, fluid management, fermentation and cell cultivation, purification, and laboratory applications. In the mechatronics segment, the company primarily manufactures equipment and systems featuring weighing, measurement and automation technology for laboratory and industrial applications. Key Sartorius customers are from the pharmaceutical, chemical and food industries and from numerous research and educational institutes of the public sector. Sartorius has its own production facilities in Europe, Asia and America as well as sales subsidiaries and local commercial agencies in more than 110 countries.