K+S Aktiengesellschaft announced due to the strongly negative adjusted Group earnings after tax of €1.8 billion in 2020 attributable to the impairment - which would also have been negative without this impairment - the resulting balance sheet loss of K+S Aktiengesellschaft, an expected significantly negative free cash flow from operating business in 2021, and the planned utilization of the purchase price for the Americas operating unit to repay debt and strengthen the balance sheet, no dividend will be paid for the 2020 financial year.