• DEUTSCH

until July 12, 2015
– by issuing new shares against contributions in cash once or several times by no more than € 20,000,000 and, subject to Supervisory Board approval, to exclude residual amounts from shareholders’ subscription rights and to exclude shareholders’ subscription rights when issuing the new shares at a value not essentially below the stock market price of shares with the same features (Authorised Capital 2010). The authorisation to exclude subscription rights pursuant to the previous sentence may, however, only be used to the extent that the pro-rata amount of the new shares in the nominal capital together with the pro-rata amount in the nominal capital of other shares which have been issued by the company since May 6, 2010, subject to the exclusion of subscription rights pursuant to or in accordance with § 186 section 3 sentence 4 AktG on the basis of an authorised capital or following a repurchase, or for which conversion or subscription rights or conversion or subscription obligations were granted after May 6, 2010, through the issuance of convertible bonds and/or bonds with warrants, with subscription rights excluded in accordance with § 186 section 3 sentence 4 AktG, does not exceed 10% of the nominal capital existing on the date of the entry of this authorisation into the commercial register or – if this amount is lower – as of the respective date on which the authorisation is used.

Contingent Capital

The following description of the Contingent Capital is based on § 4 section 5 of the Articles of Association of the company as well as on the underlying resolutions of the Annual General Meeting held on May 6, 2010. Additional contingent capital does not exist.

Contingent Capital 2010
At the balance sheet date, the nominal capital is conditionally increased by up to € 36,000,000 divided into no more than 36,000,000 registered shares (Contingent Capital 2010). The contingent capital increase will be implemented only to the extent that holders or creditors of option or conversion rights or the persons obligated to exercise option or conversion duties on bonds issued by the company or a group company, pursuant to the authorisation of the Executive Board granted by the resolution adopted by the Annual General Meeting of May 6, 2010 up to May 5, 2015 and guaranteed by the company, exercise their option or conversion rights or, if they are obliged to exercise the option or conversion duties, meet their obligations to exercise the warrant or convert the bond, or to the extent that the company exercises its rights to choose to deliver shares in the company for the total amount or partially instead of a payment and insofar as no cash settlement, treasury shares or shares of another public-listed company are used to serve these rights. The new shares shall be issued at the respective option or conversion price to be established in accordance with the aforementioned authorisation resolution. The new shares shall carry dividend rights from the commencement of the financial year in which the shares are issued. The Executive Board is authorised, subject to Supervisory Board approval, to stipulate any additional details concerning the implementation of the contingent capital increase.

The Executive Board of adidas AG did not issue any option or conversion rights, or any shares from the Contingent Capital 2010 in the 2010 financial year or in the period beyond the balance sheet date up to and including February 15, 2011.

Repurchase of adidas AG shares

At the Annual General Meeting on May 6, 2010, the shareholders of the company cancelled the authorisation to repurchase adidas AG shares granted by the Annual General Meeting on May 7, 2009, which had not been used. At the same time, the Annual General Meeting granted the Executive Board a new authorisation to repurchase adidas AG shares up to an amount totalling 10% of the nominal capital until May 5, 2015. The authorisation may be used by the company but also by its subsidiaries or by third parties on account of the company or its subsidiaries or third parties assigned by the company or one of its subsidiaries. For further information see Disclosures pursuant to § 315 Section 4 of the German Commercial Code.

The authorisation was not utilised in the year under review and up to and including February 15, 2011.

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