K + S AG Sells COMPO to Investment Company Triton

K + S AG announced that with the consent of the Supervisory Board, the Board of Executive Directors of the Company has decided to sell the business activities of COMPO to the European private equity investor Triton. A corresponding sales agreement was signed on June 20, 2011. The effective economic date of the transfer is March 1, 2011. The closing of the transaction, with an enterprise value of EUR 205 million for COMPO, is expected to take place as early as in summer 2011. The transaction is not subject to a financing condition. The sale is subject to approval by the EU antitrust authority. During the sale process, K+S AG was advised by the investment bank Goldman Sachs and the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.