Burgenland Holding AG

Earnings Release • Feb 26, 2009

2008/09 Interim Report October 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008

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 73.63 % of the share capital stock of Burgenland Holding AG, while Wiener Stadtwerke AG Holding AG and Burgenländische Elektrizitätswirtschafts-AG (BEWAG) hold between 5% and 10% each. 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
		2008/09 1st quarter	2007/08 1st quarter
Average daily volume	No.	13	31
Total share volume	EUR m	0.04	0.13
Share price high	EUR	53.99	72.00
Share price low	EUR	35.00	67.00
Share price as of the last trading	EUR	46.00	67.00
day in December
Market capitalisation as of the last	EUR m	138	201
trading day in December
Weighting in the WBI index as of the	%	0.26	0.13

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 2008/09

• • Recommendation to the AGM: dividend payout of EUR2.15/ share (+13.2%)
• • Again, a 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 2008/09, Burgenland Holding has not yet received any investment income. Based on the investment of liquid funds, interest income of TEUR66.7 accrued to Burgenland Holding AG in the first quarter of 2008/09.

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 EUR76.7m and was thus slightly above the same level in the previous year. At the 20th AGM on March 2, 2009, the management board will propose the distribution of a dividend of EUR2.15 per share (previous year: EUR1.90), totalling EUR6.450m, from the net profit amounting to EUR6.4552m as of September 30, 2008, and carrying forward the remainder of EUR 5,250.22.

Burgenland Holding AG

		2008/09 1st quarter	2007/08 1st quarter	Change %
Balance sheet total	EUR m	76.7	76.61)	0.1
Shareholders' equity	EUR m	76.6	76.61)	-
Dept capital	EUR m	0.0	0.01)	-
Profit for the period	EUR m	0.03	0.02	33.3

1) as of September 30, 2008

Financial Calendar 2008/091)

AGM	March 2, 2009
Ex-dividend date	March 12, 2009
Dividend payout	March 20, 2009
Results first six months	May 29, 2009
Results 3rd quarter	August 28, 2009
Results for the full year 2008/09	December 16, 2009

1) preliminary

Burgenland Holding AG

Technologiezentrum Marktstraße 3 7000 Eisenstadt Austria

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