Corporate | 27 April 2006 12:02

ARQUES Industries AG: Dr. Georg Obermaier stands for election to ARQUES supervisory board

Corporate-news transmitted by DGAP – a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. —————————————————————————— Dr. Georg Obermaier stands for election to ARQUES supervisory board Former VIAG chairman strengthens industrial expertise Starnberg, April 27, 2006 – Dr. Georg Obermaier will be available as a new supervisory board member of ARQUES Industries AG (ISIN DE0005156004). The 65 year old businessman agreed to this step since the ARQUES supervisory board member, Dr. Friedrich-Carl Wachs, had to give up this function due to the legal regulations of the stock exchange. In October 2005, Dr. Friedrich-Carl Wachs took over as chairman of the board of the stock exchange listed ARQUANA International Print & Media AG (ISIN DE0006781008), a print holding company in which ARQUES has the majority share. Dr. Wachs therefore had to resign his position on the ARQUES supervisory board. The election will take place at the ARQUES annual general meeting on May 30 in Munich. Until 1998 Dr. Georg Obermaier was chairman of the board of the VIAG group which was merged with VEBA into E.ON, after which he was chairman of the board of RHI AG in Vienna. Dr. Georg Obermaier currently serves on the supervisory boards of Reinhold & Mahla AG and e-Controll GmbH (Vienna); he is also a member of the administrative board of Kühne & Nagel AG (Switzerland). Dr. Georg Obermaier, who has been a member of the advisory board of the SKW group since the ARQUES takeover of the steel metallurgy expert, said: ‘I know ARQUES as a highly professional and dynamic company. I think that I can give ARQUES an entrance into new business areas through my longstanding contacts.’ About ARQUES ARQUES Industries AG, Starnberg, is a turnaround specialist who focuses on the acquisition and the active restructuring of companies in transitional situations, in order to develop these, with its own team and own resources, to competitive enterprises with a positive yield. ARQUES revitalises its subsidiaries’ potential for creating value for the benefit of all its stakeholders, taking on the relevant social responsibility. ARQUES has made a duty of identifying underestimated companies with reduced survivability but with high appreciation potential, at the same time mastering complex company structures and transitional situations. The shares of ARQUES Industries AG are traded in the regulated market (Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘AQU’ (ISIN: DE0005156004) and are listed in the SDAX since September 19, 2005. Contact: ARQUES Industries AG Investor Relations & Corporate Communication Anke Lüdemann, CEFA/CIIA Tel.: +49 (0) 8151/ 651 0 Email: luedemann@arques.de (c)DGAP 27.04.2006 ————————————————————————— language: English emitter: ARQUES Industries AG Münchner Str. 15a 82319 Starnberg Deutschland phone: +49 (0)8151 651-0 fax: +49 (0)8151 651- 500 email: info@arques.de WWW: www.arques.de ISIN: DE0005156004 WKN: 515600 indexes: SDAX stockmarkets: Geregelter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin-Bremen, München, Stuttgart End of News DGAP News-Service —————————————————————————