Corporate | 7 May 2015 08:00


telegate AG announces first quarter results 2015: Digital business generated 60 percent of turnover

DGAP-News: telegate AG / Key word(s): Quarter Results

2015-05-07 / 08:00

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München / Planegg, 7 May 2015 - telegate AG today announced that it
recorded revenues of EUR 13,96 million in the first quarter of 2015 (Q1
2014: EUR 16,42 million). The company's digital business contributed EUR
8.38 million (Q1 2014: EUR 8.94 million), whereas the Directory Assistance
segment added up to EUR 5.59 million (Q1 2014: EUR 7.48 million). The
EBITDA before non-recurring items is at EUR 1.7 million in the first
quarter 2015 (Q1 2014: EUR 2.9 million. Thereof the digital business
contributed EUR 0.6 million (Q1 2014: EUR 0.7 million), the DA segment EUR
1.1 million (Q1 2014: EUR 2,2 million).

"We are on the right track and compared to the previous year, we could
clearly increase our efficiency. With the expansion of our product
portfolio by Facebook and further Google products in the first quarter
2015, we made decisive strategic progress in our digital business. Next
year we will achieve a two-digit-growth in this business segment", said
Franz Peter Weber, spokesman of the management board.

In the previous financial year 2014 telegate AG has mainly focussed on
optimising internal structures and moved customers' needs in the center of
attention. In the first three months of 2015, the company expanded its
online marketing offer for small and medium-sized companies by social media
integrations and video products. "In the digital marketing business, we
want to be the most favourite partner for small and medium-sized companies
in Germany. Many years of experience, our broad know how and our current
offer support us to achieve this target", said Franz Peter Weber.


The full 2015 Q1 report of telegate AG is available at: 
http://www.telegate.com/investor-relations/english/reports.html


Contact:
Anja Meyer
telegate AG
Tel.: 089/ 8954-1188 
Fax: 089/ 8954-1189
E-Mail: anja.meyer@telegate.com



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Language:    English                                                     
Company:     telegate AG                                                 
             Fraunhofer Str. 12a                                         
             82152 Planegg-Martinsried                                   
             Germany                                                     
Phone:       +49 089 - 89 54 0                                           
Fax:         +49 089 - 89 54 10 10                                       
E-mail:      info@telegate.de                                            
Internet:    www.telegate.com                                            
ISIN:        DE0005118806                                                
WKN:         511880                                                      
Indices:     Prime All Share                                             
Listed:      Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated   
             Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover,  
             Munich, Stuttgart                                           
 
 
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