313music JWP AG / Preliminary Results 14.07.2008 Release of a Adhoc News, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 313music JWP AG: Positive consolidated unappropriated profits as at Dec. 31, 2007 despite a net loss for the business year Package of cuts and strategic realignment set the course for the future Munich, July 11, 2008 In business 2007, 313music JWP AG posted consolidated unappropriated profits of just short of EUR 3 million, although preliminary figures indicate that it incurred a net loss of EUR 7.3 million, down on the prior-year loss of EUR 8.1 million. Thanks to its strong capital base, the Company is able to offset this loss and the losses carried forward from past years from its capital reserves. The capital reserves still remain at EUR 3.1 million and thus well over the mandatory minimum level for reserves. Profits booked in the future will thus be available for direct disbursement to the shareholders. More than 75% of the net loss for 2007 is attributable to one-time factors, business in the United States, and left-over financial burdens from the past. Among others, these include high level of returns in prior years, write-downs on receivables and considerable legal, consultancy and personnel costs relating to former Management Board members. Moreover, the prior-year result was already squeezed by high extraordinary factors: Of the 2006 loss brought forward, a full EUR 6 million was attributable to the former operations in the United States. Now that all the former financial burdens have been eliminated, the Companys existing potential and good market position should in future lead to positive results: First, various cost-cutting measures were resolved that affect all areas of the Company and will be brought to bear all the more vigorously in second-half 2008. Second, as initiated by the Management Board in 2007 and brought to bear using our own resources, the Companys strategic realignment should now prove a positive stimulus to business. The primary goal has been to lock into new areas of business in order to broaden our business base and stabilize earnings. Since the measures were first implemented in the course of last year they did not trigger significant revenues in 2007. The complete consolidated annual financial statements for business 2007 will be released soon. The Companys Annual General Meeting will take place on August 27, 2008. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information and Explaination of the Issuer to this News: Short portrait: 313music JWP AG produces and releases music recordings with various artists, acquires recordings by other producers and exploits them. The Company is listed in the Prime Standard segment in Frankfurt. Contact for further information: Thomas M. Stein, CEO, T: +49 89 9509490, F: +49 89 95094920, contact@313jwp.de www.313jwp.de DGAP 14.07.2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Issuer: 313music JWP AG Münchner Straße 135 85774 Unterföhring Deutschland Phone: +49-(0)89 95 0 949 0 Fax: +49-(0)89 95 0 949 2214 E-mail: contact@313jwp.de Internet: www.313jwp.de ISIN: DE0005087506 WKN: 508750 Indices: Prime All Share , Prime Media Performance-Index , Prime IG Movies & Entertainment Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin, Stuttgart, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DGAP-Adhoc: 313music JWP AG: Positive consolidated unappropriated profits as at Dec. 31, 2007 despite a net loss for the business year
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