Corporate | 26 June 2006 11:00

bmp AG: bmp sells their holding in eprofessional

Corporate news transmitted by DGAP – a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. —————————————————————————— – bmp sells their holding in eprofessional – Cash inflow 4 Mio Euro – seven sum profit Berlin, 26. June 2006 bmp AG (WKN 330420) have sold its 25.5 per cent holding in eprofessional GmbH, a full service agency for search engine marketing to ZANOX.de AG Berlin. The proceeds from this transaction, including the repayment of a silent partnership, amount to 4 million euro. bmp made a seven figure profit from the sale. The agency, founded in 1999, belonged to bmp’s scope of portfolio companies since June 2000. During this period, eprofessional developed into one of Europe’s leading providers in the area of marketing search engines. bmp supported them in this process not only financially, but also with their know-how. Today, with more than 50 employees and over 100 advertising customers, including such well known names as Beiersdorf, Maggi or Otto, eprofessional ranks amongst the leading German agencies. The completed sale to the internationally active Zanox.de shows just how successfully bmp identifies and develops promising companies. Sven Ossenbrüggen, the bmp partner responsible for eprofessional: “With the sale now completed, we have reached the end of a very successful and enjoyable collaboration with eprofessional, the management, their employees and the shareholders. We are very pleased that in Zanox we were able to find a buyer who is able to open so many interesting options to the company, management and employees.” Christian Petersen, the managing director of eprofessional said, “both the capital as well as the know-how provided by bmp was of great value for the successful development of our business.” Thanks to this comprehensive support, we were able to develop from a start-up team to one of Europe’s leading full service agencies for search engine marketing. The CEO of Zanox, Thomas Heßler added, “with the know-how from eprofessional and our global structure, we will be the first company to offer a global SEM-API software solution. We will be able to integrate all the important search engines such as Google, Yahoo! Search, Miva or Baidu. “We match very well and are in possession of considerable synergies, both nationally and internationally. This strategic acquisition brings us a big step forward in the dynamically growing search-engine marketing market. With eprofessional we are now able to extend our profitability further and this year reach a turn-over of 100 million euros. eprofessional has an excellent reputation as a professional search-engine marketing agency, which is due in no little part to their first class technical know-how” explained Heiko Rauch, the zanox CFO. About eprofessional GmbH: Eprofessional GmbH was founded in Hamburg 1999 by Christian Peterson and Michael Scheland. Since then, eprofessional has developed into one of Europe’s leading full service agencies for search-engine marketing. Today it employs more than 50 employees, who advice more than 100 advertising clients – including such well known compainess as Beiersdorf, Heinrich Heine, Maggi, Medion AG or Otto. Since 2006, eprofessional maintains a branch in Madrid. eprofessional is actively involved in the Deutschen Direktmarketing Verband (DDV) as well as the international association “SEMPO” (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization). eprofessional is one of the first German agencies for search engine marketing whose complete customer consultant team was honoured as Google Advertising Professionals. Since March 2005, eprofessional is also a certified Google AdWords “Qualified Company.” About ZANOX.de AG: ZANOX.de AG is the market leader for success based multi-channel commerce and together with zanox XS offers a global solution for the efficient marketing of products and services in the internet. In addition to the affiliate marketing and search-engine management, the zanox online marketing services also include E-mail marketing, online shopping as well as customer loyalty programmes. Zanox’s sales channel include more than a thousand top international compainess such as Allianz, Lycos, Proctor and Gamble, Quelle, Sixt, Staples, Vodafone and many more. zanox is currently working with more than 500 000 distribution partners in more than 30 countries. Through their advertising activities on websites and search engines, as well as in e-mails and software, they have secured first class sources of income. zanox was founded in 2000 by the executive board comprising of Thomas Heßler, Heiko Rausch and Jens Hewald, and currently employs more than 150 employees. The company operates in an exceptionally dynamic future market and is in possession of above average high growth. About bmp AG: As an internationally active company in the Private Equity Industry, bmp invests its own funds directly into equity investment while at the same time acting as a Funds Manager for others. bmp provides its trade investments not only with capital but also with the advantages of ten years of comprehensive business development know-how. With the experience it has gained from more than 80 trade investments of its own, 10 Initial Public Offerings and more than 20 trade sales from its portfolio, bmp is numbered among the most competent venture capital companies in Germany and Poland. For further information: bmp AG Corinna Riewe Investor Relations Schlüterstraße 38 10629 Berlin Tel: 030-20 30 5-567 Fax: 030-20 30 55 55 E-mail: criewe@bmp.com Internet: www.bmp.com This issue of Corporate News represents neither an offering nor a request for the tendering of bids for the purchase of securities – particularly not in the US and not in any countries or jurisdictions in which offers, requests for the tendering of bids for purchases or for sales would not be permitted without previous registration or approval in accordance with the stipulations of the respectively applicable securities regulations. This issue of Corporate News represents neither an offer for the sale of individual proprietary shares nor a request for the submission of an offer for the purchase of individual shares; it is intended solely for information purposes. (c)DGAP 26.06.2006 ————————————————————————— Language: English Issuer: bmp AG Schlüterstraße 38 10629 Berlin Deutschland Phone: +49 (0)30 20 305-0 Fax: +49 (0)30 20 305-532 E-mail: ir@bmp.com WWW: www.bmp.com ISIN: DE0003304200 WKN: 330420 Indices: Listed: Amtlicher Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin-Bremen, Stuttgart, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf; Foreign Exchange(s) Warschau End of News DGAP News-Service ———————————————————————–