Ad-hoc | 15 May 2002 07:30

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1st quarter of 2002: Sales up by 6 % on the previous year’s level, positive EBIT Ad-hoc-announcement transmitted by DGAP. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ——————————————————————————– 1st quarter of 2002: Sales up by 6 % on the previous year’s level, positive EBIT Sales: 3.2 million EUR EBITDA: 0.2 million EUR EBIT: 0.05 million EUR Profit per share: 3 cent Funds to hand: 28.8 million EUR Cologne, 15 May 2002 – antwerpes ag, Cologne (ISIN DE0005471007 // Symbol 547100) achieved sales totalling 3.2 million EUR in the 1st quarter of 2002, this corresponds to an increase of six percent compared to the same period last year. Profit before taxes, interest and depreciation charges (EBITDA) amounts to 0.2 million EUR. Profit before interest and taxes (EBIT) is 0.05 million EUR and the result from ordinary activities is 0.3 million EUR. Profit per share amounts to 3 cent. Funds to hand have increased slightly by 0.1 million EUR to 28.8 million EUR when compared to 28.7 million EUR in the 4th quarter of 2001. The share in liquid assets is therefore 4.89 EUR per share. Sales within the Communications division increased by 11 percent from 1.95 million EUR to 2.16 million EUR. The Tools & Commerce division was able to increase sales by seven percent from 0.93 million EUR to 1.0 million EUR and other sales dropped by 0.1 million EUR from 0.15 million EUR to 0.05 million EUR. Through the purchase of 51 percent of medicalpicture GmbH, a leading medical image database, antwerpes ag continued to press ahead with further development of its product and services portfolio in the 1st quarter. With the medicalpicture image database, antwerpes ag is expanding the range of services for its customers in the healthcare sector and for over 150,000 users of its subsidiary DocCheck. In the course of the expansion of the Communications division within the German speaking regions, the Swiss branch of antwerpes & partner ag in Basle will start business on 1.7.2002. Contact: antwerpes ag, Tanja Mumme, Corporate Communications, Vogelsanger Str. 66, D-50823 Cologne, fon: +49-221-92053-139, fax: +49-221-92053-133, eMail: presse@antwerpes.de end of ad-hoc-announcement (c)DGAP 15.05.2002 ——————————————————————————– WKN: 547100; ISIN: DE0005471007; Index: Listed: Neuer Markt in Frankfurt; Freiverkehr in Berlin, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München, Hannover und Stuttgart 150730 Mai 02