DGAP-News: Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG: Francotyp-Postalia and Deutsche Post AG enter important partnership

Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG / Contract/Contract

27.05.2008 

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Francotyp-Postalia and Deutsche Post AG enter important partnership
agreement

  - Future cooperation between the companies under an extensive agreement

  - Framework conditions govern the joint operations

  - FRANKIT digital franking of mail ensures smooth, efficient handling of
    mail

Birkenwerder, 27 May 2008. The company Francotyp-Postalia Vertrieb und
Service GmbH, a sales entity of Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG (FP) and
market leader for franking machines in Germany, has entered a new
partnership agreement with Deutsche Post AG. This covers cooperation
regarding FRANKIT franking machines. 'We welcome this new agreement and see
it as confirmation of the many years of excellent cooperation between
ourselves and Deutsche Post', said Dr Heinz-Dieter Sluma, chairman of
Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG.

As well as framework operating conditions covering such items as the
certification and operation of franking machines, the new agreement for the
first time places greater focus on the cooperation side. To make it a
strategic partnership, the new contract governs the companies' common
efforts to improve customer satisfaction.

Focus on customer satisfaction

'A basic part of the expansion of our services consists in ensuring there
is close collaboration in partnership with the makers of franking
machines', Ingo Bohlken, Deutsche Post's Marketing Brief divisional
director explains. 'The contract covers key details for the certification
of future franking machines and the joint collaboration measures and offers
great advantages for all parties.'

FRANKIT digital franking guarantees a maximum of innovation that is
directed at satisfying its customers' growing requirements. 'We are a
dominant partner, holding a 45% share of the German market with around 100
000 franking machines. We focus on ensuring customer satisfaction by
providing an excellent level of service combined with technical
innovation', Dr Sluma, the FP chairman, explains.

With its innovative technology, the Francotyp-Postalia franking systems
offer user-friendly machines which deliver a correct franking imprint using
new matrix technology; also they are designed to ensure that payment for
franking is dealt with simply and reliably in compliance with enhanced
security standards. Customers who opt for an FP franking machine will
benefit from a rapid process right through from purchase and registration
to productive operation. All FP customers who already have a franking
machine - whether mymail or centormail - can continue processing their
outgoing mail in the normal way.

For contact:

Francotyp Postalia Holding AG

Investor Relations

Sabina Prüser

Tel:  +49 (0)3303 525 410

Fax:  +49 (0)3303 53707 410 

Email: s.prueser@francotyp.com 

The FP Group

With its products and services, Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG covers the
entire value-added chain in the outgoing mail market – ranging from
franking and inserting machines to collection, sorting and consolidation of
outgoing mail as far as electronic hybrid mail solutions for efficient 21st
century mail handling. The FP Group which is headquartered in Birkenwerder
near Berlin can thus offer business customers of all sizes customised
Mailstream services. It has many branches throughout the industrialised
countries and holds a global market share of 9% for franking machines. With
a company history reaching back more than 80 years, the FP Group today
benefits in all its markets from the growing liberalisation of the postal
markets and the increased trend among companies to outsource their outgoing
mail to professional service providers. During fiscal year 2007, with its
approximately 1100 employees this company generated 145.1 million euros
turnover and an EBITDA of 26.3 million euros.



Contact:
Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG
Media Relations 
Telefon:  +49 (0)3303 525 777
Telefax:  +49 (0)3303 53 70 77 77 
E-Mail:  pr@francotyp.com 



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Language:     English
Issuer:       Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG
              Triftweg 21-26
              16547 Birkenwerder
              Deutschland
Phone:        +49 (0)3303 525 777
Fax:          +49 (0)3303 53 70 77 77
E-mail:       ir@francotyp.com
Internet:     www.francotyp.com
ISIN:         DE000FPH9000
WKN:          FPH900
Listed:       Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
              in Berlin, Stuttgart, München, Düsseldorf
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