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  Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is
  responsible for the content of this announcement.
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Announcement according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG (share)

Person/company obliged to make the notification:
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Name:    Franklin Templeton Investments Corp.
Place:   Toronto, Ontario
State:   Canada

Pursuant to section 21 para. 1 sentence 1 of the German Securities Trading Act
(WpHG), Klöckner & Co SE, Am Silberpalais 1, 47057 Duisburg, Germany has been
notified as follows on behalf of the company mentioned below:

As per 4 January 2013, the voting rights of Franklin Templeton Investments
Corp.,Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in Klöckner & Co SE fell below the threshold of
5 % and amounted to 4.9854 % (4,972,985 voting rights of a total of 99,750,000
voting rights) as of that date.

All such voting rights are attributed to Franklin Templeton Investments Corp.
pursuant to section 22 para. 1 sentence 1 no. 6 WpHG.


Further inquiry note:
Dr. Jan Liersch
Tel.: +49 (0) 203 307-2284

issuer:      Klöckner & Co SE
             Am Silberpalais 1
             D-47057 Duisburg
phone:       +49(0)203-307-0
FAX:         +49(0)203-307-5000
mail:        info@kloeckner.de
WWW:         ¿U1http://www.kloeckner.de¿U0
sector:      Metal Goods & Engineering
ISIN:        DE000KC01000
indexes:     CDAX, Classic All Share, Prime All Share
stockmarkets: free trade: Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart,
             regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt 
language:    English