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ots Ad hoc-Service: Basler AG <DE0005102008> Basler AG presents good half-year result

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   Ahrensburg (ots Ad hoc-Service) - Basler AG achieved good results
in the second quarter of the year 2000. Compared with the first
quarter of 2000, the leading provider in the Vision Technology field
could improve the sales revenue by 34 per cent to roughly DM 25 mio.
This is a good 40 per cent increase in comparison with the second
quarter of 1999. In the first six months of 2000, Basler AG thus
achieved a total operating performance of DM 42.3 mio - a 34 per cent
increase on the first six months of 1999.
With DM 1.1 mio, the EBIT improved by 116 per cent on the first
quarter of 2000 and amounts to DM 1.6 mio. The DVFA earnings of the
first six months of 2000 are DM 1.1 mio (DM 0.32 per share) and could
be increased by 35 per cent on the comparable period last year.
Despite the good development of business in the first six months,
Basler is making a rather cautious assessment of the total result of
the business year. On the one hand, the present weakness of the CD-R
market is having some effect on Basler and its largest business
division Optical Media Inspection. On the other hand, the great
demand for products of the younger growth areas Machine Vision
Components, Display Inspection and Web Inspection could not be met as
fast as originally planned as a result of staff bottlenecks in the
software and electronics development fields. The high start-up
investments made for these young business divisions additionally
burden the result. While the a/m factors are detrimental for the
group result 2000, the total operating performance in 2000 will be
clearly above that of 1999, although not with the growth rate of last
year. The preliminary performances realised today will then have a
positive effect on the total operating performance and the result in
2001.
Basler AG, an international high-tech company with headquarters in
Ahrensburg near Hamburg, is a leading manufacturer of vision
technology, the technology on which artificial vision systems are
based. The systems and components produced by the company are crucial
for the optimisation of industrial production processes. The basic
conditions for a tremendous growth in sales and revenues are most
promising since currently only approximately 10 per cent of all
potential applications have been identified.
For further information please contact Christian Höck - Investor
Relations Phone 04102 - 463 175  christian.hoeck@baslerweb.com
Basler AG An der Strusbek 60-62 D-22926 Ahrensburg
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