Corporate | 17 November 2006 13:10

GROUP Technologies AG: Corporate group data as at 30.06.2006

Corporate news transmitted by DGAP – a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. —————————————————————————— GROUP Technologies AG: Corporate group data as at 30.06.2006 Eisenach, 17 November 2006 – GROUP Technologies AG increased its corporate group sales to 8.443 TEUR during the first half of 2006. For the same period the gross profit and loss of the corporate group was increased to 7.467 TEUR and the EBIT DA of the corporate group was increased to 1.022 TEUR. Despite additional costs based on the completed mergers the operative corporate group result before interest and taxes clearly increased compared to the pro forma data of the same time period of the previous year. The semi-annual result before taxes of the corporate group was minus 102 TEUR as at 30 June 2006. In the course of the mergers, personnel and cost structures were clearly improved. Initial synergistic effects have already been realized. The systematic depreciations of approximately 1 million euros as at 30 June 2006 result mainly from the regular depreciations of purchased basic technology. Since these do not include depreciations from reinvestments they will continue to decrease in the future. Due to the structural changes within the participations as well as within GROUP Technologies AG, in particular those resulting from the mergers of GAP AG für GSM Applikationen und Produkte and GROUP Technologies AG into the current GROUP Technologies AG (previously GlobalWare AG) which took effect retroactively on 1 July 2005, the comparison figures for the same period of the previous year are untested pro forma finance information. These pro forma finance figures show the hypothetical results of the corporate group in the first half of 2005 purely for illustrative purposes as if the mergers had already taken effect. Corporate group profit and loss: Numbers in TEUR (IFRS) 1st half year 1st half year 2005 2006 pro forma untested untested Sales 7.104 8.443 Other results 993 636 Goods and materials empolyed -1.693 -1.612 Gross results 6.403 7.467 Personnel costs -4.235 -3.927 Other operative costs -2.843 -2.518 EBIT DA -675 1.022 Depreciations -1.225 -1.014 EBIT -1.900 7 Interest -5 -110 Corporate group semi-annual results -1.906 -102 before taxes The sales revenue is composed of the following: Numbers in TEUR (IFRS) 1st half year 1st half year 2005 2006 pro forma untested untested Licenses and services 3.214 3.930 Maintenance 2.588 3.245 Other 1.302 1.268 Contact: GROUP Technologies AG, Hospitalstraße 6, 99817 Eisenach, Germany, Kirstin Schau E-Mail: kirstin.schau@group-technologies.com Tel.: +49 3691 7353-0, Fax: +49 3691 7353-9912, http://www.group-technologies.com (c)DGAP 17.11.2006 ————————————————————————— Language: English Issuer: GROUP Technologies AG Hospitalstr. 6 99817 Eisenach Deutschland Phone: +49 (0)3691-7353-0 Fax: +49 (0)661-964299-619 E-mail: ir@group-technologies.com WWW: www.group-technologies.com ISIN: DE0005104509, DE000A0JQ5J6 WKN: 510450, A0JQ5J Indices: Listed: Geregelter Markt in Frankfurt (General Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin-Bremen, Düsseldorf, München, Stuttgart End of News DGAP News-Service —————————————————————————