Heidelberg Second-Quarter, Six-Month Results in Line with Expectations

It was a similar story for net sales in the first half-year: Compared with the previous year, net sales rose considerably in Eastern Europe, North America, and Asia/Pacific, but remained stable in the EMEA region and fell short of the prior-year figure in South America.

Outlook confirmed for the current financial year 2012/2013
The sovereign debt crises and the volatile overall economic and market environment continue to make it difficult to forecast how business will develop. For the current financial year 2012/2013, Heidelberg expects a clear shift into the second half-year of the sales favored by orders generated at the trade show, with a consequent improvement in profit contributions. Heidelberg continues to expect a clearly positive result of operating activities excluding special items, which, however, was negatively impacted especially in the first half of the year by costs incurred for drupa and product launches.