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27.04.2016 / 14:00 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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UNIWHEELS AG expands the management board Dr. Wolfgang Hiller appointed as Chief Operating Officer and Head of the Accessory division

Bad Dürkheim, 27th April 2016

At its meeting on 26 April 2016, the Supervisory Board of UNIWHEELS AG passed a resolution to appoint Dr. Wolfgang Hiller as an additional member to the Management Board effective 1 June 2016. As the Chief Operating Officer (COO), Dr. Hiller will be in charge of the production plants and is also assigned responsibility for the Accessory division.

Dr. Hiller has many years of international experience in the automobile industry. His most recent post was at Buderus-Guss, Breidenbach, a brake manufacturer, where he was CEO. Prior to this appointment he spent many years at Bosch in Japan and Thailand, where he was a board member and senior managing director. Dr. Hiller completed his masters degree in physics in 1987 and earned his doctorate at the University of Bonn in physics and computer science.

"The Supervisory Board is very pleased to have won such an internationally experienced executive for the Management Board and is convinced that he is the perfect match to accompany the strong growth in the group's production as the new plant in Poland goes into operation. Dr. Hiller will also focus on continued expansion of the Accessory business marketed under the UNIWHEELS brands, ATS, RIAL, ALUTEC and ANZIO." - says Ralf Schmid, UNIWHEELS AG Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

The other members of the Management Board are Dr. Thomas Buchholz (CEO and Chairman) and Dr. Karsten Obenaus (CFO).

About UNIWHEELS:

The UNIWHEELS Group is one of the leading manufacturers of aluminum wheels for cars in Europe and is one of the few technology leaders worldwide in the aluminum wheel industry.

UNIWHEELS is Europe's third largest manufacturer of wheels supplying OEMs in the automobile industry and is the leading producer of alloy wheels for the aftermarket in Europe. The group's most well known proprietary brands are ATS, RIAL, ALUTEC and ANZIO. Currently the group has three production plants of which two are in Poland (Stalowa Wola) and one in Germany (Werdohl). The new plant (No. 4) will go into operation in the middle of the year and increase the group's maximum annual production capacity by roughly 2 million wheels.

UNIWHEELS sees itself as one of the leading partners of the automotive industry for the optimum reduction of CO2 emissions by reducing the weight of alloy wheels. As well as weight-optimized construction methods, the following procedures are primarily used: Flow Forming, Lightforming, undercutting and forgecut.

In 2015 UNIWHEELS Group had with a sales volume of 7.8 million wheels EUR 436.5 million of revenues and an EBITDA of EUR 58.7 million. 2,539 employees worked for the Group.

Since 2015, UNIWHEELS AG is publicly listed on Main Market of Warsaw Stock Exchange. The UNIWHEELS stock is floated under security identification number A13STW, ISIN DE000A13STW4 and ticker symbol UNW.

For more information please contact:

Oliver Madsen Head of Investor Relations E-Mail: o.madsen@de.uniwheels.com UNIWHEELS AG Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 10 67098 Bad Dürkheim Germany

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Document: http://n.eqs.com/c/fncls.ssp?u=TQOYQLPEBO Document title: UNIWHEELS PR COO

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