(Registrieren)

euro adhoc: USU Software AG / Mergers - Acquisitions - Takeovers / USU Software AG planning acquisition of LeuTek to extend business service management portfolio

Geschrieben am 31-10-2006


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disclosure announcement transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is responsible
for the content of this announcement.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


31.10.2006

Möglingen/Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 31 October 2006 - USU Software AG
(ISIN DE000A0BVU28), Möglingen, ("USU"), intends to acquire all
shares in LeuTek GmbH, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, ("LeuTek"). The
Management Board of USU and the shareholder of LeuTek today
established the key points of the agreement. The USU Management Board
is assuming that the transaction will be completed shortly.

LeuTek is a software company that develops and markets the systems
for the central management, monitoring and visualisation of the
components required for a company's IT operations. LeuTek therefore
adds monitoring and reporting, availability and service level
management to the USU IT Management Solutions portfolio. Using this
extended portfolio, USU will strategically position itself on the
market for business service management.

The company, which was founded in 1984, currently employs 45 people
for customers that operate in various industries, such as Allianz,
BMW, Deutsche Bundesbank, EnBW, LBBW, Swisscom and T-Systems. In
financial year 2005, LeuTek generated sales of more than EUR 7
million and a significant double-digit return on sales.

The purchase price for LeuTek will consist of a fixed seven-figure
cash component in EUR, an additional performance-related cash
component and 1.2 million shares in USU. The shares to be granted
will be issued by way of a non-cash capital increase from USU's
authorised capital.

Following the completion of the acquisition of LeuTek, USU is
planning to increase sales for the Group as whole to between EUR 32
million and EUR 33 million for financial year 2007, with a
consolidated net profit of significantly more than EUR 3 million.

End of ad hoc disclosure

_____________________________________________________________________
___

Issuer´s information and explanatory remarks concerning this ad-hoc
announcement:

By acquiring LeuTek, USU is rounding off its portfolio in the area of
business service management and, in future, will be offering
end-to-end IT lifecycle management from a single source: from
planning, budgeting and procurement of hardware and software through
portfolio management, service management and cost allocation and
transfer pricing based on actual usage to availability and
performance monitoring, as well as optimisation activities based on
these services for a company's or group's entire IT infrastructure.

With its ZIS System, ZISGUI and ZISSLM products, LeuTek monitors,
visualises and automates all the systems and processes relevant to IT
operations. These solutions allow customers to monitor
comprehensively the availability of their IT systems and business
process through to complex end-to-end monitoring, offer user
group-specific graphical presentation of all relevant information and
provide information on the performance and IT system reliability.
"These functionalities ideally supplement our Valuemation product
suite in the business division of IT management solutions," explained
USU's CEO Bernhard Oberschmidt. "We are therefore planning to
complete this acquisition promptly," Oberschmidt continued.

Following the acquisition by USU, LeuTek will be operated by its
current managers as an independent unit. "In particular, LeuTek's
success is due to the considerable dedication of our employees, to
whom we also wish to offer long-term prospects," stated Peter
Scheufler, Managing Director of LeuTek, adding a clear goal:
"Together with USU, using this new, comprehensive portfolio, we
intend to gain further market share, both on our domestic market and
internationally."

Following the completion of the acquisition, USU is planning to
increase sales for the Group as whole to between EUR 32 million and
EUR 33 million for financial year 2007, with a consolidated net
profit of significantly more than EUR 3 million. In future, more than
60% of sales should be generated by product business. After the
transaction, the Group as a whole will have around 1,000 product
installations at more than 400 customers. Just recently, the
independent US market research company Forrester included USU in its
TOP 5 global providers for IT asset management. "Even by
international standards, we have now reached a size that opens the
door to further growth options in global competition. We are
therefore anticipating ongoing and dynamic business development,"
said Oberschmidt, explaining the software company's new prospects.
The Company's financial situation will also remain sound after the
acquisition, and with no liabilities to banks and cash and cash
equivalents of more than EUR 6 million, it is well positioned for
further growth - both organically and by way of acquisitions.

Further information on the acquisition and the budget figures will be
announced by the Management Board of USU Software AG as part of the
analysts conference at this year's German Equity Forum at the
Frankfurt Fair Congress Centre on 27 November 2006 at 3:45 pm.


end of announcement euro adhoc 31.10.2006 09:38:56
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


ots Originaltext: USU Software AG
Im Internet recherchierbar: http://www.presseportal.de

Further inquiry note:
Contact:
USU Software AG USU Software AG
Investor Relations Corporate Communications
Falk Sorge Dr. Thomas Gerick
Tel.: 0 71 41 / 48 67 351 Tel.: 0 71 41 / 48 67 440
Fax: 0 71 41 / 48 67 108 Fax: 0 71 41 / 48 67 909
Email: f.sorge@usu-software.de Email: t.gerick@usu-software.de

Branche: Software
ISIN: DE000A0BVU28
WKN: A0BVU2
Index: CDAX, Prime All Share
Börsen: Baden-Württembergische Wertpapierbörse / regulated dealing
Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse / regulated dealing/prime
standard
Börse Berlin-Bremen / free trade
Hamburger Wertpapierbörse / free trade
Börse Düsseldorf / free trade
Bayerische Börse / free trade


Kontaktinformationen:

Leider liegen uns zu diesem Artikel keine separaten Kontaktinformationen gespeichert vor.
Am Ende der Pressemitteilung finden Sie meist die Kontaktdaten des Verfassers.

Neu! Bewerten Sie unsere Artikel in der rechten Navigationsleiste und finden
Sie außerdem den meist aufgerufenen Artikel in dieser Rubrik.

Sie suche nach weiteren Pressenachrichten?
Mehr zu diesem Thema finden Sie auf folgender Übersichtsseite. Desweiteren finden Sie dort auch Nachrichten aus anderen Genres.

http://www.bankkaufmann.com/topics.html

Weitere Informationen erhalten Sie per E-Mail unter der Adresse: info@bankkaufmann.com.

@-symbol Internet Media UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Schulstr. 18
D-91245 Simmelsdorf

E-Mail: media(at)at-symbol.de

37275

weitere Artikel:
  • KfW IPEX-Bank, IKB und Helaba finanzieren Steinkohlekraftwerk Duisburg-Walsum 10 / Größte Projektfinanzierung in der deutschen Stromwirtschaft Frankfurt am Main (ots) - KfW IPEX-Bank, IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG und Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen finanzieren als Mandated Lead Arranger gemeinsam und zu gleichen Teilen den Bau des 750 Megawatt-Steinkohlekraftwerks Duisburg-Walsum 10. Die entsprechenden Verträge wurden heute in Frankfurt unterzeichnet. Mit einer Darlehenshöhe von insgesamt 615 Mio. Euro handelt es sich um die bislang größte Projektfinanzierung in der deutschen Stromwirtschaft. Das moderne, hocheffiziente Steinkohlekraftwerk Duisburg-Walsum 10 ist ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt mehr...

  • KfW IPEX-Bank, IKB and Helaba finance the hard coal-fired power plant Duisburg-Walsum 10 / Largest project financing in the German power sector Frankfurt/Main (ots) - KfW IPEX-Bank, IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG and Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, as Mandated Lead Arrangers, are financing, jointly and at equal shares, the construction of the 750-megawatt hard coal-fired power plant Duisburg-Walsum 10. The respective agreements were signed in Frankfurt today. With a total loan volume of EUR 615 million, the transaction is the largest project financing in the German power sector up to now. The modern, highly efficient hard coal-fired power plant Duisburg-Walsum 10 is a joint project mehr...

  • E.ON baut das Kraftwerk der Zukunft Düsseldorf (ots) - - Konzernweite Technologie-Initiative gestartet - Offshore-Windparks, CO2-Abtrennung und Biogaseinspeisung in der Planung E.ON plant den Bau des modernsten Kohlekraftwerks der Welt. Mit einem bislang unerreichten Wirkungsgrad von mehr als 50 Prozent wird die Anlage neue Maßstäbe bei Effizienz und Klimaschutz setzen. Möglich wird die Steigerung auf 50 Prozent durch neue Werkstoffe im Kraftwerksbau, an deren Erprobung E.ON derzeit im Rahmen des Projekts COMTES 700 beteiligt ist. Nach dem derzeitigen Stand der mehr...

  • E.ON will build power station of the future Dusseldorf (ots) - - Company has launched Group-wide technology initiative - Projects include offshore wind farms, carbon sequestration and biogas feed-in E.ON is planning to build the world's most modern coal-fired power station. With an unrivalled efficiency of more than 50 percent, the plant will set new standards in efficiency and global warming management. The increase in efficiency to 50 percent will be possible due to the use of new materials in the construction of the power station. E.ON is currently taking part in the mehr...

  • Aberdeen-Studie: Infor mit den niedrigsten Gesamtbetriebskosten für Software und Service im Unternehmensvergleich München (ots) - Infor bekommt gute Noten von der Aberdeen Group: Einem neuen Report der Industrieanalysten zufolge bietet der weltweit drittgrößte Anbieter von Geschäftssoftware seine Enteprise Resource Planning (ERP)-Software für Fertigungsunternehmen zu den geringsten Gesamtbetriebskosten im Markt an. Für den Report "ERP in Manufacturing Benchmark" wurden mehr als 1.100 Unternehmen zu ihrem Gesamtbudget für Software und externe Services befragt. Ergebnis: Infor-Kunden geben im Durchschnitt 44 Prozent weniger für Services aus als die Kunden mehr...

Mehr zu dem Thema Finanzen

Der meistgelesene Artikel zu dem Thema:

Century Casinos wurde in Russell 2000 Index aufgenommen

durchschnittliche Punktzahl: 0
Stimmen: 0

Bitte nehmen Sie sich einen Augenblick Zeit, diesen Artikel zu bewerten:

Exzellent
Sehr gut
gut
normal
schlecht