The Executive Board of Evonik Industries AG announced that based on the provisional figures for 2015 - that it aims for a dividend for the last fiscal year in the amount of EUR 1.15 per share. That would be an increase of 15% from the previous year's dividend of EUR 1.00 per share. Contingent upon the approval of the Supervisory
Board, a corresponding dividend proposal would be made to the Annual Shareholders' Meeting on May 18, 2016.

The company provided earnings guidance for the year 2015. For the year, the Executive Board anticipates an adjusted EBITDA of around EUR 2.4 billion for 2015, with sales of around EUR 13.5 billion.