Montabaur, February 21, 2007. The Management Board of today announced its preliminary and unaudited consolidated results according to IFRS for the fiscal year 2006. The figures show strong growth in sales and earnings.

In fiscal 2006, achieved year-on-year growth in sales of 80.6 % to EUR 177.5 million (prior year: EUR 98.3 million). Preliminary earnings before taxes (EBT) improved from EUR 3.6 million to EUR 18.7 million. This figure includes a non-recurring effect resulting from a profit transfer agreement between AdLINK and Sedo GmbH, signed as part of the shareholding increase in Sedo. The contract, which is effective on January 1, 2007, guarantees Sedo’s minority shareholders fixed annual dividends for the fiscal years 2007 to 2011. In accordance with IFRS, these guaranteed payments for 2007 and the following years are charged and accounted for in fiscal year 2006, thereby reducing EBT by EUR 1.2 million.

Due to the positive development of AdLINK’s earnings and its prevailing profit transfer agreements with domestic subsidiaries, existing tax loss carryforwards had to be capitalized in 2006. This capitalization had a one-off positive effect on earnings per share (EPS) of EUR 0.18. Including this one-off effect, EPS (basic) grew by from EUR 0.04 to EUR 0.47.

The final audited and certified figures of for fiscal 2006 will be presented during the annual report and analyst press conference on March 30, 2007 in Frankfurt.

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