infas Holding AG

Business and Financial Review • Aug 13, 2001

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Ad-hoc | 13 August 2001 08:32

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Ad hoc announcement processed and transmitted by DGAP. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ——————————————————————————– Hunzinqer Information AG: further million DM business for infas – Planned annual results of action press will be 30 % higher than expected Frankfurt am Main, 13th August 2001 – The opinion research unit of the Hunzinger Information AG, respresented by Executive Board Member Menno Smid, acquired this weekend new business by the federal government of 2.5 million DM. A similar contract worth 2.3 million DM was given to infas (Bonn/Bad Godesberg) also by a federal ministry which was already announced by Hunzinger Information in July 2001. Due to the positive development in the first half year of 2001 Hunzinger Information raises the planned EBIT of its subsidiary, action press gmbh & co. kg (Hamburg), by 30 % from 1 million DM to 1.3 Million DM. The total operating performance is now planned to be 14.1 million DM after 13.3 million DM. As reported in July, the three business units of Hunzinger Information AG (Hunzinger PR 1.005 TDM, action press 670 TDM and infas 280 TDM) performed with an EBIT of 2 million DM by a group turnover of 24.3 million DM. The EBDIT was 1.95 million DM, the provisional IAS result before tax is planned to be TDM 578. In the current year Hunzinger Information AG anticipates a group turnover of 50 million DM. Of the 960 people working for the company in 28 countries, 140 are permanently employed in Germany, 120 are authors and 700 news photo reporters around the world. The group has its head office in Frankfurt am Main and maintains operational branches in Bonn, Hamburg, Eschborn and Berlin, Belgrade, Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, Kiev, Moscow and Novosibirsk. It has representatives in Brussels, Vienna and New York. Hunzinger Information AG shareholders include a joint venture by the trade union holding company BGAG Beteiligungsgesellschaft der Gewerkschaften AG and the German Civil Service Association, DBB Deutscher Beamtenbund. Both have a 10 % stake, as does the MDax-listed Gold-Zack AG. 37.2 % of the shares are in free-float and 42.8 % are held by company founder Moritz Hunzinger, who forms together with infas-CEO Menno Smid the Executive Board of the Neuer Markt-listed company. Hunzinger Information Aktiengesellschaft 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Holzhausenstraße 21 Telephone (069) 152003-0, Fax (069) 152003-33 http://www.hunzinger.de info@hunzinger.de German Securities Code Number: 609 710 (HUZG.F) end of ad hoc announcement (c) DGAP 13.08.2001 ——————————————————————————– WKN: 609710; Index: Listed: Neuer Markt in Frankfurt; Freiverkehr in Berlin, Bremen, Düsseldorf, München, Hamburg, Hannover, Stuttgart 130832 Aug 01