Press Release: aap: Supervisory Board extends contract of CFO Marek Hahn prematurely until end of 2017

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aap Implantate AG (XETRA: AAQ.DE) announces that the Supervisory Board decided at the end of June 2015 to extend the contract of Management Board member Marek Hahn (CFO) prematurely by two more years until the end of 2017.

Marek Hahn (40) has been member of the Management Board (CFO) of aap

Implantate AG since April 2010. He is responsible in the Group for Finance/ Controlling, Human Resources, IT, Legal Affairs, Administration as well as Investor and Public Relations.

"The contract extension of Mr. Hahn will guarantee continuity at the executive management level also in the years to come as well as a trusting and constructive cooperation between Supervisory Board and Management Board", says Biense Visser, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of aap

Implantate AG. "Mr. Hahn together with the Management Board and all employees will further carry forward aap

's transformation process to a focused MedTech company."

About aap Implantate AG

aap Implantate AG is a globally operating medical device company headquartered in Berlin, Germany. The company develops, manufactures and markets trauma and biomaterials products for orthopedics. The trauma portfolio includes besides the innovative anatomical plating system LOQTEQ(R) a wide range of cannulated screws as well as standard plates and screws. In the biomaterials business the company is specialized on bone cements and mixing systems. In German-speaking countries aap Implantate AG directly sells its trauma products to hospitals, buying syndicates and hospital groups while it uses a broad network of distributors in more than 60 countries at the international level. In the biomaterials business sales are handled via OEM and private label cooperations with several selected international orthopedic and trauma companies. aap Implantate AG's stock is listed in the Prime Standard segment of Frankfurt Stock Exchange (XETRA: AAQ.DE). For more information, please visit www.aap.de, or download the Company's investor relations app from the Apple's App Store or Google Play.

Forward-looking statement

This release may contain forward-looking statements based on current experience, estimates and projections of the management board and currently available information. They are not guarantees of future performance. Various known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could lead to material differences between the actual future results, financial situation, development or performance of the company and the estimates given here. Many factors could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of aap to be materially different from those that may be expressed or implied by such statements. These factors include those discussed in aap's public reports. Forward-looking statements therefore speak only as of the date they are made. aap does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in this release or to conform them to future events or developments.

For inquiries please contact: aap Implantate AG, Fabian Franke, Investor Relations, Lorenzweg 5, 12099 Berlin, Germany

Tel.: +49 30 7501 9-134, fax: +49 30 7501 9-290, e-mail: f.franke@aap.de

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Source: aap Implantate AG via Globenewswire

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aap Implantate AG

Lorenzweg 5 Berlin Germany

WKN: 506660;ISIN: DE0005066609;

Listed: Freiverkehr in Börse Stuttgart,

Freiverkehr in Hanseatische Wertpapierbörse zu Hamburg,

Freiverkehr in Börse Berlin,

Freiverkehr in Börse Düsseldorf,

Freiverkehr in Bayerische Börse München,

Freiverkehr in Niedersächsische Börse zu Hannover,

Prime Standard in Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse,

Regulierter Markt in Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse;

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