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Voting rights breakdown

Declared beneficial owners · 2

A single, collectively filed disclosure: the voting-rights rate applies to the whole group, not to each person.

• William H. Gates III5.3%
• Melinda French Gates5.3%

Notice details

Beneficial owner

William H. Gates III

Dissolution of acting as concert group with FIL Limited and Threadneedle Asset Management Limited on June 11, 2018, following the EGM of Sika AG. On June 12, the creation of unitary shares (Einheitsnamenaktien) resolved by the EGM was registered in the Commercial Register. Cascade Investment L.L.C., an entity wholly owned and controlled by Mr. William H. Gates III; 2365 Carillon Point, Kirkland, Washington 98033 USA Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, 2365 Carillon Point, Kirkland, Washington 98033 USA. William H. Gates III acting as co-trustee and settlor and Melinda F. Gates as co-trustee of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust.