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Corporate | 5 February 2009 15:30

ARQUES Industries and AURELIUS suspend collaboration talks

ARQUES Industries AG / Merger

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ARQUES Industries and AURELIUS suspend collaboration talks

Starnberg/Munich, February 5, 2009 – ARQUES Industries AG, AURELIUS AG and
its consortium partners have held talks about a possible merger of their
activities in recent months. Despite the very constructive course of the
talks, both companies now have jointly decided to transitionally suspend
them. Both companies reserve the right to continue talks at a later time
again. As a shareholder AURELIUS will continue to constructively accompany
ARQUES.

About ARQUES
ARQUES Industries AG, Starnberg (www.arques.de), is a partner for major
corporations in corporate spin-offs and a turnaround specialist
concentrating on the acquisition and active restructuring of companies in
crisis situations in order to turn them into competitive and profitable
companies with a dedicated team and their own efforts. ARQUES revitalizes
its subsidiaries’ potential for adding value for the benefit of all of
their stakeholders under consideration of the associated social
responsibility. The shares of ARQUES Industries AG are traded on the
Frankfurt Stock Exchange’s Regulated Market (Prime Standard) under the
symbol 'AQU' (ISIN: DE0005156004) and have been listed in the
SDAX.

ARQUES Industries AG
Corporate Communication
Christian Schneider
Email: schneider@arques.de

Tel.: +49 (0) 8151/ 651 0

05.02.2009 Financial News transmitted by DGAP

Language: English
Issuer: ARQUES Industries AG
Münchner Str. 15a
82319 Starnberg
Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0)8151 651-0
Fax: +49 (0)8151 651- 500
E-mail: schneider@arques.de
Internet: www.arques.de
ISIN: DE0005156004
WKN: 515600
Indices: SDAX
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
in Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, München, Stuttgart

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