Burgenland Holding AG

Earnings Release • Feb 27, 2008

2007/08 Interim Report October 1, 2007 - December 31, 2007

Energising the Burgenland Burgenland Holding AG

The shares of Burgenland Holding AG (share capital: EUR21.81m) are listed on the Official Market of the Vienna Stock Exchange under ISIN 00000640552. EVN AG holds a stake of 72.27 % of the share capital stock of Burgenland Holding AG, while Wiener Stadtwerke AG Holding AG holds between 5% and 10%. Verbund Austrian Hydro Power AG holds more than 10%. No other shareholder holds more than 5%.

Burgenland Holding AG continues to hold a 49% interest in the share capital of Burgenländische Elektrizitätswirtschafts-AG (BEWAG) in the amount of EUR34.88m. The remaining 51% of the shares are held by the Province of Burgenland. Burgenland Holding AG also continues to hold a 49% stake in the share capital of BEGAS amounting to EUR7.44m. The remaining shares are held by BEGAS-Gemeindeanteilsverwaltung AG (GAV). The shareholders in GAV are exclusively the municipalities in the Burgenland supplied with natural gas.

The Burgenland Holding Share

Performance
		2007/08 Q1	2006/07 Q1
Average daily volume	No.	31	27
Total share volume	EUR mn	0.13	0.1
Share price high	EUR	72.00	65.99
Share price low	EUR	67.00	59.60
Share price as of the last trading	EUR	67.00	60.11
day in December
Market capitalisation as of the last	EUR m	201	180
trading day in December
Weighting in the WBI index as of the	%	0.13	0.12

last trading day in December

Basic information

Share capital	EUR 21.81 m
Denomination	3 mil individual no-par shares
Majority shareholder	EVN AG
ISIN securities identification number	AT0000640552
Ticker Symbols	BHAV.VI (Reuters); BURG AV
	(Bloomberg); AT;BHD (Dow Jones)
Listed	Vienna

Burgenland Holding AG

Burgenland Holding AG Q1 2007/08

• Recommendation to the AGM: dividend payout of EUR1.90/share
• Positive result for the period already in Q1 due to positive net interest income

Income situation

As the associated enterprises BEWAG and BEGAS did not distribute dividends in the first quarter of 2007/08, Burgenland Holding has not yet received any investment income. Resulting from the investment of liquid funds, interest income of TEUR56.7 accrued to Burgenland Holding AG in the first quarter of 2007/08.

Balance sheet and capital structure

Burgenland Holding's sound capital structure remained unchanged compared to the most recent balance sheet date. The balance sheet total stood at EUR75.9m and was thus at the same level as on Sep 30, 2007. At the 19th AGM on March 28, 2008, the management board will propose the distribution of a dividend of EUR1.90 per share (previous year: EUR1.90), totalling EUR5.700m, from the net profit amounting to EUR5.708m as of September 30, 2007, and carrying forward the remainder of EUR 8,623.72.

Burgenland Holding AG

		2007/08 Q1l	2006/07 Q1	Change %
Balance sheet total	EUR m	75.9	75.61)	0.0
Shareholders' equity	EUR m	75.8	75.81)	0.0
Result for the period	EUR m	0.02	0.01	-

1) as of September 30, 2007

Corporate Calendar 2007/081)

AGM	March 28, 2008
Ex-dividend date	April 3, 2008
Dividend payout	April 10, 2008
Results first six months	May 30, 2008
Results 3rd quarter	August 29, 2008
Results for the full year 2007/08	December 16, 2008

1) preliminary

Burgenland Holding AG

Technologiezentrum Marktstraße 3 7000 Eisenstadt Austria

Corporate Communications and Investor Relations

Mag. Renate Lackner-Gass

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