Ad-hoc | 2 August 1999 14:28

Ad hoc-Service: SZ Testsysteme AG eng.korrekt

Ad-hoc announcement sent by DGAP. The sender is solely responsible for the contents of this announcement. —————————————————————————— Correction The last two sentences of this press release has been corrected. The complete corrected text is as follows: PRESS RELEASE 37 % Growth for SZ Test Systems The highest turnover and number of orders received in any quarter Amerang, 2 August 1999. In the third quarter of the 1998/99 business year (to 30 September) SZ Testsysteme AG in Amerang, near Wasserburg, achieved the largest quarterly sales in the companys history: 12.2 million DM. Compared with the same period of the previous year, this corresponds to an increase of 3.3 million DM or 37%. Thanks to very substantial orders from the USA, an order volume of 13.1 million DM was booked – the highest ever in one quarter. During the first nine months of the current business year, sales rose by 25% to 32.4 million DM (previous year 25.9 million DM). The 3.7 million DM losses from ordinary business activities were caused by the 4 million DM costs for IPO. And significant expenditure for the strategic expansion of the worldwide sales network and the diversification of the product spectrum had a further negative effect. End of Message