EANS-News: Hoeft & Wessel pays higher dividend (with document)

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Subtitle: Streamlining of Group structures creates synergy effects

Hannover/Germany, 15/06/2011. (euro adhoc) - Hoeft & Wessel AG pays a
25 per cent higher dividend to its shareholders for fiscal 2010. At
the Annual General Meeting, the majority of the company´s
shareholders approved the payment of EUR 0.10 per share (previous
year: EUR 0.08). In relation to the share price at the end of 2010,
this represents a dividend yield of 2.6 per cent. Since the payment
of the dividend will be tax-free, as in the previous year, the gross
yield of about 3.4 per cent is good in comparison with other public
limited companies in Germany.

In his address to the shareholders, CEO Hansjoachim Oehmen emphasised
that the IT company was pursuing a sustainable dividend policy in the
long term. The public limited company listed in the Prime Standard
segment of the German Securities Exchange in Frankfurt had paid a
dividend for the first time in the year 2010.

In his speech, Oehmen also dealt with the streamlining of the Group´s
structures. Accordingly, the business divisions are to be
consolidated to a greater degree following a downsizing of the
Management Board to two members. Oehmen indicated that the company´s
objective was to leverage synergies and cut costs.

Press kit with speech:
http://www.presseportal.de/pm/12945/hoeft_wessel_ag/

The Company The Hoeft & Wessel Group is the leading IT and
engineering technology Group for ticketing, parking and mobile
solutions in Germany and Great Britain. Established in 1978 by the
two entrepreneurs who gave the company its name and listed on the
stock market since 1998, the enterprise has developed into a group of
companies with sales revenues of nearly EUR 100 million and a
workforce of 500 employees. Its main locations are Hannover, Germany,
and Swindon, UK, to the west of London.

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Further inquiry note:
Arnd Fritzemeier
Tel.: +49-511-6102-300
E-Mail: PR@hoeft-wessel.com

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company: Höft & Wessel AG
Rotenburger Str. 20
D-30659 Hannover
phone: +49-511-6102-0
FAX: +49-511-6102-411
mail: ir@hoeft-wessel.com
WWW: http://www.hoeft-wessel.com
sector: Technology
ISIN: DE0006011000
indexes: TecDAX, Prime All Share, Technology All Share
stockmarkets: regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt, free trade: Berlin,
Hamburg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Hannover, München
language: English