euro adhoc: feratel media technologies AG / quarterly or semiannual financial statement / 3rd quarter with healthy increase in sales and results for feratel

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9-month report

29.03.2007

"In the third quarter of the 2006/2007 business year, sales were up
from 6.2 to 6.7 million euros in the period-to-period comparison. For
the first nine months of the business year, consolidated sales thus
increased from 12.1 to 12.6 million euros," says Dr. Markus
Schröcksnadel, CEO at the listed feratel media technologies AG.

"The results are equally pleasing," Schröcksnadel continues in his
explanation of the latest quarterly figures: "EBT for the third
quarter improved from 1.2 million euros in 2005/2006 to 1.6 million
in 2006/2007. The operative result (EBIT) was up from 1.2 to 1.5
million euros. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and
amortization (EBITDA) came to 1.9 million euros after 1.6 million in
the previous year. For the first nine months of the business year,
EBT thus improved from TEUR 161.3 to TEUR 528.3 and the operative
result from TEUR 69.5 to TEUR 396.1, and EBITDA came to 1.6 million
euros after 1.4 million in the same period of the previous year. The
take-over of the Sitour subsidiaries, which will be fully
consolidated as of 1 February 2007, will not influence sales and
results until the 4th quarter."

The feratel company took advantage of this year’s ITB in Berlin to
present a number of new and enhanced products. A Guest Card pilot
project was run in the Pyhrn-Priel region some time ago with the
support of Siemens and various other partners. In the meantime the
feratel holistic solution philosophy applies here too: Whatever type
of card is required - prepaid, all-inclusive or simple visitor card -
feratel now offers one-stop shopping for the complete hardware, the
readers and of course the necessary software.

Also at the ITB, the TV station TW1 and feratel presented interactive
Multitext, a further development of the familiar videotex format for
television. The technology involves reducing the TV image to one
quarter of the original size and simultaneously displaying up-to-date
weather and tourism information. The offering includes all feratel
weather cam images, current weather data and forecasts for Europe and
Austria, tourism news and upcoming events. The feratel Deskline
destination management system can also be integrated to accept
enquiries for rooms and apartments. The navigation has been kept as
simple as possible and is based on the numbers and color keys on the
remote control. The only technical requirement is an mhp-capable
set-top box (receiver with integrated Multimedia Home Platform). The
box is in any case required for the switchover to digital TV and,
except for the cheapest models, they are mhp-capable.

The Munich Tourismusberatung IRS Consult company took advantage of
the ITB to conduct its fourth anonymous study of the service provided
by 4,948 tourism resorts with the help of fictional reservation
enquiries by e-mail. In both the postal and e-mail categories, two of
the top three destinations were found to be using the feratel
Deskline destination management system.

Outlook For the Schröcksnadel group the Sitour subsidiary, which was
founded in what was then Czechoslovakia in 1991, brought an early
focus on the Eastern European markets. That was followed in 1996 by
the installation of the first weather cameras in the Czech Republic
and subsequently Slovakia. By 2000 feratel had entered the Hungarian
market, and the company has also been active with a shareholding and
its own development center in Bulgaria since 2002. Finally, in 2006,
feratel won a contract for a nationwide reservation system in
Slovenia.

With the integration of the two Sitour subsidiaries in Slovakia and
the Czech Republic, feratel is now ideally placed to further
strengthen its Eastern European focus. The impressive economic
performance of the new member countries of the EU, their tourism
potential plus a range of structural development programmes based on
national funding and EU co-financing make these markets particularly
attractive for feratel.

"For financial 2006/2007, which closes at the end of April, we are
expecting a further improvement in sales and results. The fact that
the Sitour subsidiaries in Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic and
Slovakia will be fully consolidated retroactively as of 1 February
2007 reinforces this positive assessment", the feratel CEO concludes.

The 3rd quarter of 2006/2007 in figures (pursuant to IFRS)

Q 3 2006/2007 Q 3 2005/2006
TEUR TEUR

Sales 6.667,2 6.185,7

Income from operations 6.931,1 6.287,9

EBITDA 1.878,5 1.602,2

EBIT 1.505,6 1.204,1

EBT 1.574,0 1.231,8

The first nine months of 2006/2007 in figures (pursuant to IFRS)

Q 1-3 2006/2007 Q 1-3 2005/2006
TEUR TEUR

Sales 12.565,5 12.142,3

Income from operations 13.116,2 12.541,4

EBITDA 1.567,9 1.363,5

EBIT 396,1 69,5

EBT 528,3 161,3

end of announcement euro adhoc 30.03.2007 07:15:00
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Further inquiry note:
Herr Fritsch Martin

Branche: Technology
ISIN: AT0000737804
WKN: 615165
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