Ad-hoc | 2 August 1999 07:49

Ad hoc-Service: Hunzinger Information AG engl

Ad hoc-Mitteilung verarbeitet und übermittelt durch die DGAP. Für den Inhalt der Mitteilung ist der Emittent verantwortlich. —————————————————————————— Hunzinger Information AG Doubles Profit in the First Half Year 1999 a.. 18% Rise in Turnover b.. 55% Overall Performance Increase c.. 88% Ordinary Business Profit Growth d.. 79% of Planned Annual Turnover Already Firmly Contracted e.. Flagship PR Project: Deutsche Telekom Fails on Telecom Italia Frankfurt am Main, August 2, 1999 – Hunzinger Information AG (Frankfurt am Main), active in PR and in market research with the “infas” Institute, continued growth in the first 1999 semester with an 18% consolidated turnover increase to DM 19.5 million (prev. yr. DM 16.5 million) and a clear 55% overall performance increase to DM 20.9 million (prev. yr. DM 13.5 million). The operative result rose by 58% to DM 2.2 million (prev. yr. DM 1.4 million). The ordinary business profit grew by 88% to DM 2.7 million (prev. yr. DM 1.44 million). Compared with the previous year’s net IAS profit after fictitious tax burden adjustment, the first six months’ profit has doubled from DM 0.7 million to DM 1.4 million With DM 36.1 million already signed up (prev. yr. DM 26.4 million), 79% of the planned annual DM 45.7 million turnover is already firmly contracted, without counting possible company acquisitions in 1999. In the first semester of 1999, new clients of the information share listed on the Neuer Markt were Maxdata AG, Gontard & MetallBank AG, Prodacta AG, Gigabell AG, Wintershall AG, CSC Ploenzke AG, Microsoft GmbH, Berliner Wasserbetriebe, Lehman Brothers, AOL Bertelsmann Online GmbH & Co. KG, Messe Frankfurt GmbH, Curanum AG and Messer Griesheim GmbH. The failure of Deutsche Telekom AG’s biggest hostile corporate takeover bid worldwide turned out to be the major PR project success story at Hunzinger Information in the first half-yearly report. Cheered on by enthusiastic opinion, the De Benedetti family, with their Olivetti S.A. and partners, managed to take over the Telecom Italia majority against all expectations. This brings Hunzinger Information yet another major contract: With its expertise in PR and political communication, the purchase of 130,000 railroad employee apartments is to be realized, which Nomura International is currently attempting to acquire. The East European Hunzinger Information network is in simultaneous development. Representative offices are opening in Moscow, Kiev, Warsaw and Prague, which will cultivate the major markets there and mainly support West European and Transatlantic companies with on-location PR, political communication and capital market relations. The next “political salons” will be staged by Hunzinger Information with federal defense minister Rudolf Scharping, Lower Saxony opposition leader and federal CDU vice-chairman Christian Wulff, parliamentary Bündnis 90/Die Grünen chairman Rezzo Schlauch and CDU social committees chairman Rainer Eppelmann. Hunzinger Information shareholders include, with 10% each, a joint venture of BGAG Beteiligungsgesellschaft der Gewerkschaften AG and the Deutscher Beamtenbund (DBB) and the M-Dax-listed Gold-Zack AG. Thirty percent of shares are scattered and Moritz Hunzinger holds 50%. He founded the first and so far only stock market quoted information share in Frankfurt am Main in 1979. The “infas” Institute, established 40 years ago, was integrated in 1996. Hunzinger Information employed a staff of 90 to June 30. The market research and opinion poll business with “infas” Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft GmbH (Bonn/Bad Godesberg) is led by the fifty years old Hunzinger Information executive board member and sociologist Menno Smid. The Public Relations and Political Communication are managed by Moritz Hunzinger, 40, through the Hunzinger PR GmbH management company, Frankfurt am Main. This is the profit maker of the Group with 90% since it is market-usual to sell research at lower margins. Hunzinger Information Aktiengesellschaft D-60322 Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Holzhausenstraße 21 Telefon 0049 (0) 69/15 20 03-0 Telefax 0049 (0) 69/15 20 03-33 E-mail: info@hunzinger.de www.hunzinger.de Ende der Mitteilung