Rohde & Schwarz tops two billion euro mark in incoming orders

Munich (ots) - Rohde & Schwarz can look back on an extremely
successful 2012/2013 fiscal year (July to June). Incoming orders
surpassed the two billion euro mark for the first time in the
company's 80-year history. The company slightly improved its leading
position in Europe, and achieved significant gains in Asia and the
USA. All four Rohde & Schwarz business fields contributed to the
successful results.

Incoming orders in the past fiscal year (July 2012 to June 2013)
increased by 8.7 percent over the previous fiscal year to EUR 2.04
billion. Revenues reached EUR 1.9 billion, an increase of 4.8
percent. At the end of the fiscal year, the company had 9,300
employees, as compared with 8,700 a year earlier.

Rohde & Schwarz is based on four main strategic pillars: test and
measurement (T&M), broadcasting, secure communications,
radiomonitoring and radiolocation. Wireless communications T&M was
again the biggest contributor to the company's successful
performance, thanks to the continuing strong growth on the smartphone
market, including LTE devices. The entire market for smart connected
devices, which includes PCs and tablets as well as smartphones,
continues to perform outstandingly well. This resulted in full order
books and the highest level of production capacity utilization in the
company's history.

Together with its subsidiaries ipoque and SwissQual,
Rohde & Schwarz offers T&M solutions for the entire lifecycle of a
wireless communications network from a single source. Manfred
Fleischmann, President and CEO of Rohde & Schwarz, states: "Network
operators benefit from coordinated T&M solutions and have just one
point of contact. This is unmatched on the market, and has enabled us
to achieve stronger growth in this segment than our competitors."

Rohde & Schwarz also performed well in the broadcasting business
field. Even though the digital transmitter market is nearly saturated
in many countries, the company was able to expand its leadership
position in the terrestrial television broadcasting market with a new
family of transmitters. Through its subsidiary Rohde & Schwarz DVS,
Rohde & Schwarz also offers products for the studio segment and has
added audio/video headends to its portfolio. As a result,
Rohde & Schwarz is developing into a supplier of solutions along the
entire broadcasting value chain, from post production in the studio
to transmission of the broadcasting signal.

Both the secure communications and the radiomonitoring and
radiolocation business fields showed very strong gains in incoming
orders as compared with the previous fiscal year. In the air traffic
control segment, Rohde & Schwarz succeeded in winning a strategically
important reference project. The company has been selected as the
sole supplier of HF radios and voice communications systems for air
traffic control services in Iceland and Ireland. In addition,
Rohde & Schwarz launched a new generation of software defined radios
at the end of 2012. The R&S SDTR is targeted at addressing the needs
of the tactical communications market.

Manfred Fleischmann is confident about the perspectives for fiscal
year 2013/2014: "We have built up our company based on the long-term
view. It rests on an extremely solid foundation."

Contact:
Monika Roth, Phone: +49 89 4129 12232, E-mail:
press@rohde-schwarz.com