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quarterly or semiannual financial statement
3rd quarter with healthy increase in sales and results for feratel

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9-month report
29.03.2007
"In the third quarter of the 2006/2007 business year, sales were up 
from 6.2 to 6.7 million euros in the period-to-period comparison. For
the first nine months of the business year, consolidated sales thus 
increased from 12.1 to 12.6 million euros," says Dr. Markus 
Schröcksnadel, CEO at the listed feratel media technologies AG.
"The results are equally pleasing," Schröcksnadel continues in his 
explanation of the latest quarterly figures: "EBT for the third 
quarter improved from 1.2 million euros in 2005/2006 to 1.6 million 
in 2006/2007. The operative result (EBIT) was up from 1.2 to 1.5 
million euros. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and 
amortization (EBITDA) came to 1.9 million euros after 1.6 million in 
the previous year. For the first nine months of the business year, 
EBT thus improved from TEUR 161.3 to TEUR 528.3 and the operative 
result from TEUR 69.5 to TEUR 396.1, and EBITDA came to 1.6 million 
euros after 1.4 million in the same period of the previous year. The 
take-over of the Sitour subsidiaries, which will be fully 
consolidated as of 1 February 2007, will not influence sales and 
results until the 4th quarter."
The feratel company took advantage of this year’s ITB in Berlin to 
present a number of new and enhanced products. A Guest Card pilot 
project was run in the Pyhrn-Priel region some time ago with the 
support of Siemens and various other partners. In the meantime the 
feratel holistic solution philosophy applies here too: Whatever type 
of card is required - prepaid, all-inclusive or simple visitor card -
feratel now offers one-stop shopping for the complete hardware, the 
readers and of course the necessary software.
Also at the ITB, the TV station TW1 and feratel presented interactive
Multitext, a further development of the familiar videotex format for 
television. The technology involves reducing the TV image to one 
quarter of the original size and simultaneously displaying up-to-date
weather and tourism information. The offering includes all feratel 
weather cam images, current weather data and forecasts for Europe and
Austria, tourism news and upcoming events. The feratel Deskline 
destination management system can also be integrated to accept 
enquiries for rooms and apartments. The navigation has been kept as 
simple as possible and is based on the numbers and color keys on the 
remote control. The only technical requirement is an mhp-capable 
set-top box (receiver with integrated Multimedia Home Platform). The 
box is in any case required for the switchover to digital TV and, 
except for the cheapest models, they are mhp-capable.
The Munich Tourismusberatung IRS Consult company took advantage of 
the ITB to conduct its fourth anonymous study of the service provided
by 4,948 tourism resorts with the help of fictional reservation 
enquiries by e-mail. In both the postal and e-mail categories, two of
the top three destinations were found to be using the feratel 
Deskline destination management system.
Outlook For the Schröcksnadel group the Sitour subsidiary, which was 
founded in what was then Czechoslovakia in 1991, brought an early 
focus on the Eastern European markets. That was followed in 1996 by 
the installation of the first weather cameras in the Czech Republic 
and subsequently Slovakia. By 2000 feratel had entered the Hungarian 
market, and the company has also been active with a shareholding and 
its own development center in Bulgaria since 2002. Finally, in 2006, 
feratel won a contract for a nationwide reservation system in 
Slovenia.
With the integration of the two Sitour subsidiaries in Slovakia and 
the Czech Republic, feratel is now ideally placed to further 
strengthen its Eastern European focus. The impressive economic 
performance of the new member countries of the EU, their tourism 
potential plus a range of structural development programmes based on 
national funding and EU co-financing make these markets particularly 
attractive for feratel.
"For financial 2006/2007, which closes at the end of April, we are 
expecting a further improvement in sales and results. The fact that 
the Sitour subsidiaries in Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic and 
Slovakia will be fully consolidated retroactively as of 1 February 
2007 reinforces this positive assessment", the feratel CEO concludes.
The 3rd quarter of 2006/2007 in figures (pursuant to IFRS)
Q 3 2006/2007                Q 3 2005/2006
                                    TEUR                          TEUR
Sales                              6.667,2                     6.185,7
Income from operations             6.931,1                     6.287,9
EBITDA                             1.878,5                     1.602,2
EBIT                               1.505,6                     1.204,1
EBT                                1.574,0                     1.231,8
The first nine months of 2006/2007 in figures (pursuant to IFRS)
Q 1-3 2006/2007             Q 1-3 2005/2006
                                    TEUR                         TEUR
Sales                           12.565,5                     12.142,3
Income from operations          13.116,2                     12.541,4
EBITDA                           1.567,9                      1.363,5
EBIT                               396,1                         69,5
EBT                                528,3                        161,3
end of announcement                               euro adhoc 30.03.2007 07:15:00

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Herr Fritsch Martin

Branche: Technology
ISIN: AT0000737804
WKN: 615165
Index: Standard Market Auction
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