舍弗勒股份公司今天完成了首次股票公開發行（IPO）。總共7,500萬無投票權普通股向機構投資者售出，其中6,600萬股來自舍弗勒股份公司的增資，900萬股來自舍弗勒管理有限公司。此次IPO的發行價定在12.50歐元每股，籌資總額達到約9.38億歐元，認購量超過初始數倍。
“我們很高興能在這樣一個充滿挑戰性的市場環境下成功完成IPO。來自投資者的強勁需求證明舍弗勒是一個非常具有吸引力的投資選擇。此次IPO為舍弗勒股份公司的持續性盈利增長鋪平了道路。”舍弗勒集團首席執行官克勞斯·羅森菲爾德（Klaus Rosen-feld）說。
此次IPO的收益將被用于降低舍弗勒股份公司的債務，可持續性地維持公司的財務健康。通過此次股票發行，舍弗勒集團的法律架構重組也圓滿劃上句號。
舍弗勒股份公司股東及監事會主席喬治·F. W.·舍弗勒（Georg F. W. Schaeffler）表示，“通過這次成功交易，我們數年來為之努力的雙支柱模式（舍弗勒股份公司—大陸股份公司）得以確立，頂端是發揮戰略作用的控股公司。”
舍弗勒股份公司股東及監事會副主席瑪利亞—伊麗莎白·舍弗勒—圖曼（ Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler-Thumann）表示：“舍弗勒集團未來仍將是家族企業。作為股東，我們將為客戶、供應商和廣大員工的利益肩負起進一步成功發展的責任。”
舍弗勒股份公司此次發行的無投票權普通股將從2015年10月9日起在法蘭克福股票交易所主板市場開始交易，交易符號為SHA，德國證券代碼為SHA015，國際證券代碼為DE000SHA0159。
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