Corporate | 13 July 2006 16:17

Ludwig Beck am Rathauseck-Textilhaus Feldmeier AG: Oliver Haller to join LUDWIG BECK Management Board

Corporate news transmitted by DGAP – a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. —————————————————————————— Oliver Haller to join LUDWIG BECK Management Board – COO and CFO to work as a team from January 2007 Munich, 13 July 2006 – Oliver Haller will join the LUDWIG BECK AG Management Board on 1 January 2007 as Chief Operating Officer in charge of purchasing, sales and marketing. Business administration graduate Haller will manage LUDWIG BECK AG jointly with CFO Dieter Münch as a team. He will take over at the year’s end from Reiner Unkel, who is switching to Douglas Holding AG as chairman of the perfumery division. Haller, 37, is currently creative director at E. Breuninger GmbH & Co. in Stuttgart, where he began his retail career as a buyer in 1996. Since 2002 he has shown a keen sense of what customers want in helping to shape the Stuttgart fashion company‘s strategic alignment. Since 2005 he has also played an active part in developing the creative and content line of Breuninger’s entire communications. “I accepted with delight the offer to help shape the LUDWIG BECK fashion house’s future as a member of the Management Board,” Haller said. “LUDWIG BECK can look back on a unique history and I look forward to keeping this very special department store on course jointly with my fellow director Dieter Münch,” he added. “We are highly delighted to have taken on board in Oliver Haller a retail professional,” said Dr. Joachim Hausser, LUDWIG BECK Supervisory Board chairman. “Last year our company reversed the trend last year and made its return to profitability,” Dieter Münch noted. “With Oliver Haller we will jointly give the firm fresh growth impetus.” Investor Relations contact: Buchanan Capital Group Metis-Corinna Tarta +49 8151 95966-25 m.tarta@buchanan-ag.com (c)DGAP 13.07.2006 ————————————————————————— Language: English Issuer: Ludwig Beck am Rathauseck-Textilhaus Feldmeier AG Marienplatz 11 80327 München Deutschland Phone: +49 (0)892 36 91-0 Fax: +49 (0)892 36 91-6 00 E-mail: info@ludwigbeck.de WWW: www.ludwigbeck.de ISIN: DE0005199905 WKN: 519990 Indices: Listed: Amtlicher Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard), München; Freiverkehr in Berlin-Bremen, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart End of News DGAP News-Service —————————————————————————