secunet Security Networks AG / Final Results/Preliminary Results 01.02.2008 Release of a Corporate-announcement, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- secunet substantially increases revenue and profits secunet publishes interim results for 2007 [Essen, February 1, 2008] In 2007, secunet Security Networks AG, leading provider of IT security products and services, increased its revenue by 13% and its earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) by 60%. The company today published provisional figures for the financial year just ended. secunet looks forward with confidence to the coming year, with its order book at a record level. In the 2007 financial year just ended, the secunet group generated net revenues of Euro 41.3 million. This represents an increase of 13% over 2006 (Euro 36.5 million). The first and last quarters of 2007 were especially strong, with revenues of Euro 8.1 million and Euro 14.2 million respectively, both 20% up on the previous year. The company also substantially improved its earnings before interest and taxes, with EBIT reaching Euro 3.5 million, 60% up on 2006. The EBIT margin was 8.4%, against 5.9% the previous year. The fourth quarter was particularly profitable, with EBIT at Euro 2.5 million and an EBIT margin of 17.6%. 'secunet is back on the road to growth', declared Dr. Rainer Baumgart, CEO of secunet Security Networks AG. 'We are very well established in our traditional market, and we will benefit from future trends.' secunet looks forward with confidence to the new year, with an order book worth Euro 16.8 million at the end of December 2007. This is the highest year-end order book volume ever achieved by the company. Additional data is available from www.secunet.com. Disclaimer: This press release contains prospective statements. Prospective statements are statements which do not describe actual facts from the past; they also comprise of statements about our suppositions and expectations. Every statement in this press release which reflects our intentions, suppositions, expectations or forecasts (together with the suppositions which give rise to such views) constitutes a prospective statement. These statements refer to plans, estimates and forecasts which the management of secunet Security Networks AG currently dispose of. Thus prospective statements only refer to the day on which they were made. We shall accept no obligation to further develop such statements in the light of new information or future results. Dr. Kay Rathke Head of Corporate Communication secunet Security Networks AG Kronprinzenstrasse 30 45128 Essen/Germany Phone +49 201 54 54-300 Fax +49 201 54 54-301 E-mail: investor.relations@secunet.com http://www.secunet.com DGAP 01.02.2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Issuer: secunet Security Networks AG Kronprinzenstrasse 30 45128 Essen Deutschland Phone: +49 (0)201 - 5454 - 300 Fax: +49 (0)201 - 5454 - 301 E-mail: investor.relations@secunet.com Internet: www.secunet.com ISIN: DE0007276503 WKN: 727650 Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin, Hannover, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München, Stuttgart End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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