EANS-News: Hoeft & Wessel appoints new Managing Director for Metric subsidiary (with photo)

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Board of Directors (Appointments and Changes)

Subtitle: - Central control of UK business activities from Swindon
- Successful manager from the Company

Swindon/UK, Hannover/Germany, 21/02/2012. (euro adhoc) - Peter
Aylward was appointed by the Hoeft & Wessel Group as Managing
Director of the Metric subsidiary, headquartered in Swindon (United
Kingdom). Accordingly, he will be responsible for the business
activities of one of the world´s leading producers of car park
terminals, reporting directly to the Board of Management.

In Peter Aylward, an experienced manager from the ranks of the
Company is now at the helm. Since mid-2009, this 49-year-old IT
specialist has succeeded in further developing the business
activities for ticketing systems in Great Britain as General Manager
of Almex UK. Under his stewardship, it was possible to penetrate the
market for stationary ticketing systems and, ultimately, the market
for state-of-the-art ticketing package solutions. As part of a large-
scale order placed, for several months now Hoeft & Wessel has
equipped the bus fleet of the FirstGroup, the largest private bus
operator in the United Kingdom, with an NFC (Near Field
Communication) enabled e-Ticketing system.

Aylward was born in Great Britain and lives near Swindon. In his
career lasting over 30 years, he has acquired extensive experience in
management of IT companies in the United Kingdom and Germany. For
instance, he was Managing Director of RedDot, a leading provider of
enterprise content management software.

In addition to the parking division, Peter Aylward also remains
responsible for all business activities for Almex ticketing systems
in Great Britain. This will help to lay the foundations for further
extension of the business with car park terminals, ticketing systems
and mobile terminals in a central region for Hoeft & Wessel.

The new CEO, Michael Hoeft, is delighted with this new management
solution, saying: "In Peter Aylward, we now have an experienced
manager in Swindon, who is in control of all business activities of
the Hoeft & Wessel Group on site in the UK. This generates many and
various synergy effects. Just one example is the use of our
nationwide service network in Great Britain both for car park
terminals and ticketing systems."

Press kit with photo of Peter Aylward:
http://www.presseportal.de/pm/12945/hoeft_wessel_ag/

The Company Hoeft & Wessel is the leading IT and
engineering technology Group for ticketing, parking and mobile
solutions in Great Britain and Germany. Established in 1978 by the
two entrepreneurs who gave the company its name, the enterprise has
developed into a group of companies with sales revenues of approx.
EUR 90 million and a workforce of 500 employees. Its main locations
are Hannover, Germany, and Swindon, 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: Prime All Share, Technology All Share
stockmarkets: free trade: Hannover, Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf,
Stuttgart, regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt
language: English