Ad-hoc | 26 August 2004 16:00

BOV AG with additional member of the Managing Board

Ad-hoc-announcement transmitted by DGAP. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ——————————————————————————– BOV AG with additional member of the Managing Board Essen, 26.08.2004 To keep up the pace of the further business development of BOV group, Reinhold Hartwich will strengthen the management team as an additional member of the Managing Board. The appointment of Mr. Hartwich is in place as at August 25th 2004. The intensive marketing and sales activities as well as the improving business with larger IT-projects in Germany and Switzerland demand a clear focus of the Managing Board on pre-sales, sales and operations. The graduated engineer and MBA Reinhold Hartwich will sign respronsible for operations. Mr. Hartwich has been in responsible positions as general manager or member of the board in a series of companies since 1981. He has a name as a successful manager for turnaround situations and change management. He started his career with Siemens AG. Later on he was technical director of Pitney Bowes Deutschland GmbH and worked in the USA and in Japan. He also acted as general manager with S. Siedle & Söhne GmbH as well as with LRE Relais + Elektronik GmbH. For the later he was responsible for the business in Germany, France, UK and Sweden. Furthermore he was responsible for the bottom line of the worldwide activities in medical systems with regional emphasis on USA and Europe. ——————————————————————————– BOV Aktiengesellschaft Your contact in Investor Relations: Christoph Junge e-mail:christoph.junge@bov.de Your contact in the Press Office: Martin Möllmann mailto:martin.moellmann@bov.de Alfredstraße 279 D-45133 Essen Tel.: +49.(0)201.4513-3 Fax: +49.(0)201.4513-520 end of ad-hoc-announcement (c)DGAP 26.08.2004 ——————————————————————————– WKN: 549370; ISIN: DE0005493704; Index: Listed: Geregelter Markt in Frankfurt (General Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin- Bremen, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover, München und Stuttgart 261600 Aug 04