EANS-News: asknet AG / asknet publishes annual report - 2009 successful year despite crisis

- Group result improves by 60%

- Profitable fourth quarter

- Further advances in internationalization

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Annual Reports

Subtitle: - Group result improves by 60%
- Profitable fourth quarter
- Further advances in internationalization

Karlsruhe (euro adhoc) - Karlsruhe, April 13, 2010 - asknet AG, which
recently was ranked as one of Germany´s fastest-growing technology
companies in Deloitte´s "Technology Fast 50" report, has published
its annual report for 2009. To sum up: In addition to a continuous,
quarter-to-quarter improvement in results, in the last quarter of
2009 asknet was carried to the break-even point by the traditionally
strong year-end upturn in business. Gross profits grew by seven
percent in the period under review. The asknet Group pushed forward
with its strategy of internationalization; it now generates 68
percent of its sales volume outside Germany. muvee Technologies,
headquartered in Singapore, and BizAgi, based in Latin America,
numbered among the Group´s new accounts in 2009.

Michael Konrad, CFO of asknet AG, sees the 60 percent year-on-year
improvement in the Group´s results and the increase in gross profits
as proof of the effectiveness of the consolidation measures
undertaken in 2008. "We were able to cut operating costs by 1.1
million euros and boost our gross profit margins to 14 percent," he
explains. Twenty-seven percent of 2009 gross profits came from the
ePortals business segment, where asknet remains the unchallenged
market leader in the field of institutions of higher education and
research.

asknet´s main area of business is still the eDistribution segment,
which has a strong international focus. To simplify customers´ access
to international markets, in 2009 asknet increased the number of
eShop languages to 30 and expanded the list of accepted transaction
currencies to 38.

Security is a key strategic issue for the field of eCommerce. In the
fourth quarter of 2009, asknet proved its high security standard by
achieving Payment Card Industry Level 1 certification.

"We have emerged from the crisis with our heads held high. The
positive result in the last quarter of 2009 underscores the positive
growth dynamic of our business," concludes Michael Scheib, CEO of
asknet AG.

The Annual Report 2009 of asknet AG is available in German language
as of today from the company´s website on www.asknet.de and
www.asknet.com. The English version of the Annual Report 2009 will be
available by 30th April 2010.

About asknet asknet offers its clients customized outsourcing
solutions for global software sales via the Internet. Founded in 1995
as a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, formerly
the University of Karlsruhe), the company has become the number two
independent global provider for electronic software distribution. In
addition to its fully integrated shop solutions for software
publishers, the company develops and maintains portals for software
distribution such as softwarehouse.de, one of Europe's largest. In
2009, asknet posted sales of approximately 68.9 million euros. In
2009 the Karlsruhe company was named in the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
"Technology Fast 50" ranking of the fastest-growing technology firms
in Germany. asknet´s clients include numerous providers of specialty
software such as CollabNet, DivX, F-Secure, Nero, Panda Security,
Steganos, and NetObjects. The company also supplies software products
to around eighty percent of German universities. Further information
is available from www.asknet.com.

Press Contacts
asknet AG
Kirsten Neininger
phone: +49 (0)721.96458-6399
eMail: kirsten.neininger@asknet.com

asknet, Inc.
Bernard Haug
phone: +1 (415) 352-2622
eMail: bernard.haug@asknet.com
www.asknet.com

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Further inquiry note:

Kirsten Neininger

Corporate Marketing Manager

Telefon: +49 (0) 721 96 458 6399

e-mail: kirsten.neininger@asknet.de

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