20 February 2008 vestjyskBANK Annual Report for 2007 The high level of income has been maintained, and the year 2007 shows highly satisfactory pre-tax profits of DKK 291m. The cost percentage has been calculated at 56% and thus barely lives up to the Bank's overall objective of 55%. The reason for this is that we have expanded the number of our staff by 26. Return on investment of average shareholders' equity is 17% before tax. The total business volume has increased by 22.5% to a total of DKK 29.2bn.