Sartorius AG announced that supervisory board of the company approved the executive board's recommendation to submit a proposal to the annual shareholders' Meeting on April 6, 2017, to raise dividends to EUR 0.46 per preference share and to EUR 0.45 per ordinary share. If approved, the total amount disbursed under this proposal would thus rise 20.5% to EUR 31.1 million from EUR 25.8 million a year earlier.

In addition, the Supervisory Board appointed Rainer Lehmann to the Executive Board of Sartorius AG, effective March 1, 2017. He succeeds Jörg Pfirrmann, who had announced in October 2016 that he would not be available for an extension of his term on the Executive Board. By mutual consent, Jörg Pfirrmann will resign effective February 28, 2017, from his position on the Board for overseeing the Finance, Human Resources Management and Information Technology functions. Rainer Lehmann will take over responsibility on the Executive Board for Finance, as well as Information Technology and Global Business Processes. In this connection, CEO and Executive Board Chairman Dr. Joachim Kreuzburg will assume leadership of the Human Resources Management unit and therefore also the position of Executive for Labor Relations in addition to performing his current Executive Board duties. Reinhard Vogt will remain in charge on the Board for Marketing, Sales and Services.