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Oct 26, 2006

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Corporate | 26 October 2006 15:44

GROUP Technologies AG:Management Team addition

Corporate news transmitted by DGAP – a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. —————————————————————————— GROUP Technologies expands Management Team Eisenach/Karlsruhe, 26 October 2006 – Herbert Reder (49) joins the Management Team of the E-Mail Lifecycle Management (ELM) specialist as Chief Sales Officer for the sales regions Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Herbert Reder has extensive experience in the management and control of sales in IT companies and their partner network. He specializes in the implementation of sales strategies. Reder leaves the IT services company S4P solutions for partners ag, Ettlingen to join GROUP Technologies. His career also includes positions as Sales Manager for SYSDAT GmbH in Köln, Director of Sales for Softpro GmbH, Böblingen as well as management of the Sales Division for the company W. Rieker & Co., Steinheim. ‘I am looking forward to applying my extensive sales know-how at GROUP Technologies”, stated Reder. “Management of e-mails is a growing market and the use of ELM solutions are an absolute necessity in view of the fact that today more than 80 percent of company data are in form of e-mails. However many companies avoid dealing with the subject since they anticipate a complex and complicated transition of their entire IT infrastructure. GROUP’s solutions unify these processes in a simple way and allow implementation with minimal effort. GROUP’s solutions protect, filter and classify, manage, use in business processes, archive and, following the applicable retention period, delete e-mails from the time of creation or arrival in the company network. For this the software has integrated modules for spam and virus protection, encryption, automatic forwarding as well as the transfer of e-mails to business applications and systems for compliance and archiving. The technology platform enables the solution to be implemented using open interfaces and independent of the messaging system in use into applications such as Enterprise Content Management, CRM, ILM, Compliance or ERP integrieren. About GROUP Technologies AG GROUP Technologies AG is a leading world-wide provider of an open platform for E-Mail Lifecycle Management (ELM). The company addresses the ever growing demands of companies for centralized integration of email communication into business processes thus making company information centrally available. Thereby, both legal and organizational aspects are covered. This leads to high security and efficient organization of email management and therefore to increased service quality and customer satisfaction. The platform combines applications and technologies into a continuous Workflow. The modules the company offers for integration into the platform, under the iQ.Suite trademark, range from email encryption, anti-virus and anti-spam, email classification to secure archiving of email. Customers include many well-known companies such as ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, Honda, Heineken and Miele. More than 2,000 customers and over 2.5 million users protect and organize their companies using solutions of GROUP Technologies GROUP Technologies AG has offices in Germany, The Netherlands, England, Sweden, Finland and the USA. In Germany the company has offices in Eisenach, Karlsruhe, Fulda, Braunschweig and Dresden. International sales occur both through direct channels as well as through partner companies.. Internet: www.group-technologies.com Contact: GROUP Technologies AG, Hospitalstraße 6, 99817 Eisenach, Deutschland, Kirstin Schau E-Mail: kirstin.schau@group-technologies.com Tel.: +49-3691-7353-0, Fax: +49-661-964299-619, http://www.group-technologies.com (c)DGAP 26.10.2006 ————————————————————————— Language: English Issuer: GROUP Technologies AG Hospitalstr. 6 99817 Eisenach Deutschland Phone: +49 (0)3691-7353-0 Fax: +49 (0)661-964299-619 E-mail: ir@group-technologies.com WWW: www.group-technologies.com ISIN: DE0005104509 WKN: 510450 Indices: Listed: Geregelter Markt in Frankfurt (General Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin-Bremen, Düsseldorf, München, Stuttgart End of News DGAP News-Service —————————————————————————