Heidelberg Financial Year 2006/2007: Targets Achieved - Further Improvement in Earning

Sales by the Heidelberg Group during the period under review climbed six percent to 3.803 billion Euro (previous year: 3.586 billion Euro). The fourth quarter alone returned sales of 1.214 billion Euro, the highest level in the last five years on a comparable basis.

Incoming orders in the financial year just closed were 3.853 billion Euro (previous year: 3.605 billion Euro), around seven percent up on the previous year. The Heidelberg Group thus succeeded in increasing incoming orders for the third successive year. At around one billion Euro, the order backlog at March 31, 2007 was on a par with the previous year’s high level.