Gordon Riske is appointed CEO of Linde Material Handling and Member of the KION Group Executive Board

May 14, 2007 Wiesbaden, May 14, 2007 - Gordon Riske (49) has been appointed the new CEO of Linde Material Handling GmbH (LMH) and a member of the Executive Board of KION Group GmbH. Riske will assume office by October 1, 2007 at the latest. He will also represent LMH on the Executive Committee of the KION Group. Hubertus Krossa (59), CEO of KION Group GmbH, said "I am pleased to welcome Gordon Riske, a top manager with a great deal of capital market experience, to lead the Linde Material Handling management team. With his international expertise in the mechanical engineering and motive engineering sectors, Gordon Riske, together with our CEO Dr Nedim Cen, will ensure long-term continuity of on the Executive Board of the KION Group. In his operational role as CEO of Linde Material Handling,Gordon Riske will be ideally placed to familiarize himself with our company, with a view to becoming my successor as CEO of KION in the medium term." The Supervisory Board of the KION Group is delighted with the appointment of Gordon Riske, who has many years of experience, both in managing industrial companies and in dealing with the requirements of the capital market. It believes that this step will further strengthen the KION Group management team. Mr Riske succeeds Dr Stefan Rinck (49) as CEO of Linde Material Handling. Mr Rinck will take over responsibility for driving forward the Linde Hydraulics operations, and in his new role will remain a member of the Executive Committee of the KION Group. Gordon Riske said "I am looking forward to new business challenges in Linde Material Handling and KION. To achieve global market leadership, we will need to exploit the good prevailing market conditions, especially in the growth markets of Asia, Central Europe, Eastern Europe and America. I will be fully committed to this task and will assume responsibility for our employees, customers and shareholders. Together with Hubertus Krossa and Dr Nedim Cen, I will play my part in preparing KION for a potential IPO." Mr Riske, who was born in the US, is currently Chairman of the Management Board of DEUTZ AG in Cologne, an MDAX-listed company and a world-leading manufacturer of diesel and gas engines. In this rôle, he has been responsible for the successful growth strategy and capital market focus of DEUTZ AG since February 2000. Prior to that, he worked in various management positions in the US and in Germany for the KUKA Group, most recently as Managing Director of the Management Board of KUKA Roboter GmbH, Augsburg. Mr Riske studied electrical engineering at the Lawrence Institute of Technology, Southfield, Michigan, and has a BBA from GSBA, Zurich. The KION Group, with its three brands, Linde, STILL and OM, operates in the forklift truck and warehouse equipment sector. The company is the market leader in Europe and stands for the highest levels of technological and service competence. In fiscal 2006, it achieved sales of more than 4 billion euro with over 20,000 employees. The KION Group was sold by Linde at the end of 2006 to KKR and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and is seeking to achieve an IPO in the medium term. For further information: Michael Hauger Head of Communications and Investor Relations, KION Group Telephone: +49 (611) 770-655