Hornbach Holding AG & Co. KGaA / Key word(s): Corporate Action 22.10.2015 18:19 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hornbach family announces private placement Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, October 22, 2015. The family trust Hornbach Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH, Annweiler, today decided to place one million non-par ordinary bearer shares in Hornbach Holding AG & Co. KGaA on the capital market. This was announced by the principal shareholder in the KGaA today. The private placement of 6.25% of the share capital in Hornbach Holding AG & Co. KGaA will thus be executed by way of an accelerated book building process performed by Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG and Commerzbank AG and is expected to be completed by tomorrow, Friday, October 23, 2015. With this transaction, the family trust is selling half of the two million shares it bought back from the former strategic partner Kingfisher plc at the end of March 2014. It was further announced that the family trust had undertaken within the private placement to comply with a customary market lock-up period of three months. Upon completion of the secondary placement, the family will hold 43.75% of the share capital of Euro 48 million in the KGaA, which is divided into 16 million listed non-par ordinary bearer shares with voting entitlement (ISIN: DE0006083405). 22.10.2015 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: Hornbach Holding AG & Co. KGaA Le Quartier Hornbach 19 67433 Neustadt an der Weinstraße Germany Phone: Fax: E-mail: Internet: ISIN: DE0006083405 WKN: 608340 Indices: SDAX Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart End of Announcement DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------