Corporate | 13 December 2006 10:00
Eckert & Ziegler Concentrates on Core Business
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Berlin, 13 December 2006. Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG
(ISIN DE0005659700), a specialist for radiopharmaceutical products as well
as cancer diagnostic and treatment systems, will sell its business in blood
irradiation systems to the Leipzig-based company Gamma Service Recycling
GmbH, effective 1 January 2007. The purchasing price consists of the book
value of the fixed and current assets plus a percentage of sales over the
coming years insured by minimum payments from sales revenues. On account of
the performance-based component of this sale, revenue effects for Eckert &
Ziegler AG over the coming years will remain roughly at the level they
would be if the company had continued to run the business itself.
Products of the BIOBEAM trademark family were added to Eckert & Ziegler
AG’s portfolio in 2004 as part of the acquisition of the medical systems
business of the Lübeck-based company HEK GmbH, and have since accounted for
around 2 million EUR of sales per year. In order to streamline processes
and to concentrate more strongly on its medical and radiometric core areas,
Eckert & Ziegler has been seeking to sell this business for some time.
As Dr. Gunnar Mann, the general manager of the subsidiary responsible for
these products, explained, ‘Business activities with blood irradiation
systems are aimed at blood banks and research institutes as opposed to our
main customer group of specialists in nuclear medicine and radiation
therapy. It has therefore not been cost-effective for us to handle these
products appropriately. With Gamma Service, we are pleased to have found a
buyer whom we are convinced will further develop this field in a qualified
manner. This solution will benefit our customers, as well as both Gamma
Service and us.’
Your contact:
Eckert & Ziegler AG
Karolin Riehle, Investor Relations, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, D-13125 Berlin
phone: +49 (0) 30 / 94 10 84-138; fax -112; e-mail: karolin.riehle@ezag.de,
www.ezag.de
(c)DGAP 13.12.2006
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Language: English
Issuer: ECKERT & ZIEGLER Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG
Robert-Rössle-Str. 10
13125 Berlin Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0)30 941 084-0
Fax: +49 (0)30 941 084-112
E-mail: karolin.riehle@ezag.de
WWW: www.ezag.de
ISIN: DE0005659700
WKN: 565970
Indices:
Listed: Geregelter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
in Berlin-Bremen, Stuttgart, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf
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