Celesio AG / Strategic Company Decision 26.03.2009 Release of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Pan-European outsourcing of Celesio's IT infrastructure will increase efficiency and reduce costs' Stuttgart, 26 March 2009. Celesio, one of the leading international trading companies and service providers for the pharma market, will outsource IT services. For the coming seven years, HP, the largest technology company in the world, will provide pan-European IT-Infrastructure Services for Celesio. Celesio expects a significant increase in efficiency from this cooperation. 'Celesio is a group that operates in several European markets, and thus it is very important that we have a standardised IT-infrastructure in all of the countries we are active in. The outsourcing will lead to a tightening of working processes across the group - and hence to a significant improvement in efficiency', says Christian Holzherr, CFO and Celesio's member of the management board responsible for IT. The IT sourcing solution will support Celesio's business objectives. This will be achieved by a standardised, modular and demand oriented IT infrastructure. 'It will enable us to reduce operating cost to free up resources for investments and, furthermore, increase flexibility for business changes and growth over the years', Holzherr stresses. The outsourcing project includes a transformation phase for IT operations and forms the basis for future application and process standardisation. 'From 2010 on, in the following years synergy effects of up to 200 hundred million euros will be realised', Holzherr explains. Press contact: Rainer Berghausen, Celesio AG, +49 (0)711.5001-549 rainer.berghausen@celesio.com DGAP 26.03.2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Issuer: Celesio AG Neckartalstr. 155 70376 Stuttgart Deutschland Phone: +49 (0)711 5001-735 Fax: +49 (0)711 5001-736 E-mail: investor@celesio.com Internet: www.celesio.com ISIN: DE000CLS1001 WKN: CLS100 Indices: MDAX Listed: Regulierter Markt in Berlin, Frankfurt (Prime Standard), München, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart; Freiverkehr in Hannover, Hamburg; Terminbörse EUREX End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DGAP-News: Celesio AG: 'Pan-European outsourcing of Celesio's IT infrastructure will increase
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