Ad hoc: HeidelbergCement intends to distribute increased dividend payments of EUR 0.25 per share

Managing Board and Supervisory Board of HeidelbergCement decided today to propose to the General Meeting of Shareholders, scheduled for 5 May 2011, an increase of the dividend payments by EUR 0.13 to EUR 0.25 per share.

Heidelberg, 16 March 2011
The Managing Board

Ad hoc announcement pursuant to § 15 German Securities Trading Act (WpHG)

Christoph Beumelburg wearing a white shirt and a blue jacket, in the background a window and an exposed concrete wall

Christoph Beumelburg

Group Spokesman, Director Group Communication & Investor Relations

Heidelberg Materials AG Berliner Straße 6
69120 Heidelberg
Germany