EANS-Adhoc: Kapsch TrafficCom AG / Kapsch TrafficCom Acquires Traffic Management Software and Systems Integration Company Transdyn

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Mergers - Acquisitions - Takeovers
16.01.2014

Kapsch TrafficCom AG (ISIN AT000KAPSCH9), listed on the Vienna Stock
Exchange in the prime market segment, has acquired through its
subsidiary Kapsch TrafficCom IVHS Inc., with immediate effect, all of
the shares of Transdyn, Inc., a Delaware corporation, from Powell
Industries, Inc. for a purchase price of sixteen million U.S. Dollars
(approximately twelve million Euro), on a cash free, debt free basis,
subject to working capital adjustment after the closing.

Transdyn, Inc. is one of the leading Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS) companies in the U.S. market, well-known as designer
and builder of mission critical - among others - traffic management
applications that are used by highway, toll, turnpike, tunnel and
bridge authorities. Transdyn is a well-known systems integrator of
control, communication, information management and
security/surveillance systems. For 35 years, it has delivered a
wide-range of systems for government agencies and private industry in
the transportation, environmental, security, energy, and industrial
markets throughout the United States and abroad. Its services include
planning, design, systems integration, project management, software
development, installation, commissioning, training, maintenance, and
long-term support. As an engineering and contracting organization,
Transdyn combines specialty contracting, project management, and a
variety of technical services to deliver high-performance,
high-availability systems tailored to their clients' requirements.

Major transportation departments and authorities use Transdyn systems
to manage the safety and throughput of their vital roadways, tunnels,
bridges, and transit rail lines. The company's traffic management
systems are installed in over 30 transportation facilities all across
the U.S., including the LBJ Express project in North Texas in which
Kapsch and Transdyn worked jointly. The LBJ Express project opened
the first stretch of the highway for traffic on December 12, 2013.
The major references outside the United States comprise New Zealand,
Australia and Israel. Transdyn, Inc. is headquartered in Duluth,
Georgia, and has branch offices in California, New Jersey and
Virginia. With approximately 150 employees, Transdyn generated in its
most recently completed fiscal year ended September 30, 2013, a
revenue of USD 33.9 million (approximately EUR 25 million) at a clear
positive free cash flow and at an EBITDA margin accretive to the
EBITDA margin of the Kapsch TrafficCom Group generated in its last
fiscal year ended March 31, 2013.

Investor Contact:

Marcus Handl
Investor Relations Officer
Kapsch TrafficCom AG
Am Europlatz 2, 1120 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 50 811 1120
E-mail: ir.kapschtraffic@kapsch.net

Press Contact:

Katharina Riedl
Spokesperson
Kapsch AG
Am Europlatz 2, 1120 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 50 811 1705
E-mail: katharina.riedl@kapsch.net

Disclaimer

This ad-hoc release constitutes neither an offer to sell nor a
solicitation to buy any securities. The securities have already been
sold.

This ad-hoc release and the information it contains are not for
publication in the United States of America (U.S.A.) and may not be
distributed to U.S. persons (as defined in Regulation S of the U.S.
Securities Act ("Securities Act") of 1933, as amended) or to
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securities or solicitation of an offer to purchase securities in the
U.S.A. The securities of Kapsch TrafficCom AG have not been
registered under the provisions of the Securities Act and may not be
offered, sold or delivered to U.S. persons without prior registration
under or exemption from the registration requirements.

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Further inquiry note:
Mag. Marcus Handl
Investor Relations Officer
Kapsch TrafficCom AG
Am Europlatz 2
1120 Wien, Österreich
Tel.: +43 50.811 1120
E-Mail: {ir.kapschtraffic@kapsch.net}
[HYPERLINK: mailto:ir.kapschtraffic@kapsch.net]
Pressekontakt:
Mag. Katharina Riedl
Unternehmenssprecherin
Kapsch AG
Am Europlatz 2
1120 Wien, Österreich
Tel.: +43 50.811 1705
E-Mail: {katharina.riedl@kapsch.net}
[HYPERLINK: mailto:katharina.riedl@kapsch.net]

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issuer: Kapsch TrafficCom AG
Am Europlatz 2
A-1121 Wien
phone: +43 1 50811 1122
FAX: +43 1 50811 99 1122
mail: ir.kapschtraffic@kapsch.net
WWW: www.kapschtraffic.com
sector: Technology
ISIN: AT000KAPSCH9
indexes: Prime Market
stockmarkets: official market: Wien
language: English