DGAP-Adhoc: Kontron AG announces share buyback


Kontron AG / Share Buyback

28.01.2008 

Release of an Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG.
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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Eching, Munich, January 25, 2008. Today, the management board of Kontron AG
has passed a resolution, based on the authorization of the Annual General
Meeting of June 27, 2007, to repurchase up to 1,500,000 company shares,
equaling up to 3 % of the company’s equity capital.

The buyback of shares will be conducted by way of the stock exchange.
According to the authorization, the price the company pays for the shares
(excluding incidental acquisition costs) must not exceed or fall below the
respective closing price in XETRA trading (or a functionally comparable
subsequent system replacing the XETRA system) on the Frankfurt stock
exchange on the trading day preceding the buyback by more than 10 %.




Investor Relations:               For further information:
Gaby Moldan                       Dr. Udo Nimsdorf  
Kontron AG                        Engel & Zimmermann AG 
Oskar-von-Miller-Str. 1,          Agentur für Wirtschaftskommunikation 
D-85386 Eching                    Schloss Fußberg, Am Schlosspark 15, 
Tel+498165/77212,Fax+498165/772   D-82131 Gauting 
Email: Gaby.Moldan@kontron.com    Tel+49 898935633,Fax+4989 89398429
                                  Email : info@engel-zimmermann.de
DGAP 28.01.2008 
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Language:     English
Issuer:       Kontron AG
              Oskar-von-Miller-Str. 1
              85386 Eching
              Deutschland
Phone:        08165-77-225
Fax:          08165-77-222
E-mail:       martin.przybyla@kontron.com
Internet:     www.kontron.com
ISIN:         DE0006053952
WKN:          605395
Indices:      TecDAX
Listed:       Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
              in Berlin, Stuttgart, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf
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