Press release

Heerlen, NL, 10 Jan 2014 09:15 CET

Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, has repurchased 112,588 of its own shares in the period from 6 January 2014 up to and including 9 January 2014 at an average price of €57.88. This is in accordance with the repurchase, covering existing option plans, announced on 6 November 2013. The consideration of this repurchase was €6.5 million.

The total number of shares repurchased under this program to date is 1,379,533 shares for a total consideration of €79.6 million.