Plenum AG

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Ad-hoc | 18 September 2007 09:41

plenum AG: plenum abandons its agency business

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plenum abandons its agency business

Wiesbaden, September 18, 2007: Owing to its desire to focus upon the
management consulting, plenum AG (Prime Standard, ISIN DE 0006901002) is
abandoning its agency business and is selling the agency plenum stoll &
fischbach to Heinz Stoll and Gerhard Fischbach based upon management
buy-out.

• Letter of Intent for the sale of plenum stoll & fischbach signed
• After the sale, plenum will once again be a pure consulting firm
• Cooperation ensures competence in the marketing strategy and
communication area

After the agency business was already spun off under its own brand within
the parameters of the refocusing strategy, now with the sale of plenum
stoll & fischbach, the final step is being taken towards again positioning
plenum as a pure consulting firm. With the planned sale on 30/9/2007, the
company of plenum stoll & fischbach will again be in the hands of its
founders who sold it to plenum in 2001.

The synergies which were hoped for during the e-business hype at that time
through the offering of one-stop shopping could not be sustained after the
collapse of the e-business euphoria.

Both parties are thus in agreement that the separation of the businesses
and their independent continued development will be advantageous for both
parties.

plenum – positioned as 'the consulting office for the industrialisation of
the service industry' – has, in addition to the core competences of
business process optimisation, IT efficiency and skill management, also
emphasised the themes of marketing strategy and customer interaction
management (CIM) as consulting competences and was able to attain
substantial success during the last two years and assert itself against
both the Anglo-Saxon strategic consultants as well as also against the
strategic divisions of the large advertising agencies. This know-how
advantage is supposed to be maintained and continue to be expanded. In
addition, a cooperation between plenum and stoll & fischbach has been
agreed which will also ensure access to the full range of services of both
companies for clients. The DOM (Digital Online Media) which is located in
Cologne will remain in the plenum family and, in addition to its current
business as a competence centre for `interactive marketing`, will
strengthen plenum’s consulting competence in the areas of marketing and
CIM.

The planned sale of plenum stoll & fischbach will not be detrimental to
plenum AG’s results for the fiscal year 2007. Both parties have agreed to
maintain confidentiality regarding the details of the sale.

About plenum AG:
plenum AG (Prime Standard, ISIN DE0006901001) is a leading German
Management Consulting Firm focusing on solutions for strategic task
completion as part of the industrialization of service providers,
particularly financial service providers and energy suppliers. Its core
competencies include marketing and communications, business process
optimization and outsourcing, IT-efficiency and IT-Outsourcing as well as
Human Resources and Skill Management. The chain of services runs from
strategy development right up to monitoring successful implementation.

Regarding further information or inquiries, please contact:

plenum AG
Investor RelationsHagenauer Str. 53
65203 Wiesbaden
Tel.: +49 (0)611-9882-0
Fax: +49 (0)611-9882-496
Email: aktie@plenum.de
Internet: www.plenum.de

Investor Relations
FINREL GmbH – financial relations –
Stefan Bülling
Barnerstr. 14
22765 Hamburg
Tel.: +49 (0)40-39834-641
Fax: +49 (0)40-39834-649
Email: info@finrel.de
Internet: www.finrel.de

Information and comments from the issuer of this report:
This report contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties due to current expectations, estimates, predictions and
forecasts as well as the use of estimates by the management of plenum AG.
Such forward-looking comments comprise the predictions of budgets,
strategies and outlooks. Forward-looking statements can also be identified
by words such as 'anticipates', 'expects', 'preliminary', 'plans',
'predicts', and similar terms. Forward-looking statements are no guarantees
of future performance and the Company's actual results may differ
significantly from the results discussed in this section.

18.09.2007 Financial News transmitted by DGAP

Language: English
Issuer: plenum AG
Hagenauer Straße 53
65203 Wiesbaden
Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0)611 9882-361
Fax: +49 (0)611 9882-496
E-mail: aktie@plenum.de
Internet: www.plenum.de
ISIN: DE0006901002
WKN: 690100
Listed: Geregelter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard), Stuttgart;
Freiverkehr in Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf

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