30.09.2005 – 08:42

feratel media technologies AG

euro adhoc: feratel media technologies AG
Financial Figures/Balance Sheet
Q1 sales and results unchanged

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30.09.2005

"The 2005/2006 financial year got off to a positive start for
feratel. Consolidated sales increased from TEUR 2,753.7 in the first
quarter of the previous year to TEUR 2,812.1 in the first quarter of
2005/2006. Earnings before taxes (EBT) stood at minus TEUR 595.0
compared with minus TEUR 580.4 for the same period of the previous
year," said Markus Schröcksnadel, CEO at feratel media technologies
AG, at the presentation of the latest quarterly results.

As in all other years, he explained, the result for the first half of
the financial year was budgeted to be significantly weaker than in
the second half. That was because sales in the Telecommunications
Division were always concentrated in the second half of the financial
year, whereas fixes costs were distributed equally over the full
twelve-month period. As in previous years, a positive result was
accordingly anticipated for the third and fourth quarters, he added.

Weather cams for specialist channels in Spain and France This summer,
feratel recruited two new attractive partners for transmission of its
weather cams, namely the Spanish weather channel Canal Méteo and the
French specialist channel La Châine Météo. That constitutes a major
step in terms of market entry in those countries. In Spain, Canal
Méteo makes use of individual feratel weather cams to illustrate the
general weather situation in Europe, while in France La Châine Météo
broadcasts images from camera locations in Alpe d’Huez, Sainte Foy
Tarantaise, Nice and Frejus every fifteen minutes between 8 a.m. and
12 noon daily.

New IRS customers Following a detailed product analysis,
Europasportregion Zell am See - Kaprun (Salzburg) was able to start
working with Deskline® in time for this year’s summer season. The
introduction of Deskline® there means full integration in the
region-wide solution implemented for Salzburg Province and on-line
access to the region’s complete accommodation offering via
www.salzburgerland.at. In June of this year, Ferienregion Kaiserwinkl
(Tyrol) took the decision to invest in feratel’s Deskline® and to
launch a new regional portal with the Spherecast content and
applications management system.

In July 2005 feratel installed its first information terminal on the
Spanish coast, in Cambrils. The first feratel information terminal in
the Netherlands was rented by the coastal resort of Grou as a source
of round-the-clock information on local tourism products and
services. In addition, the Grou Tourist Office is to become feratel’s
second Dutch IRS customer to work with Deskline® as an on-line and
back office solution.

Mobile regional website The majority of today’s websites were
developed for standard browser applications and not for the much
smaller displays used with mobile terminal devices. For several years
now, weather cams have been available - independent of normal
Internet platforms - for viewing as stills or moving images via a
number of mobile telephony portals (E-Plus’ i-mode system in Germany,
KPN in Benelux, A1 in Austria). The remaining challenge was to make
it possible to download large-volume tourism content onto mobiles
with a clear structure and user-friendly menu navigation. In
collaboration with 2k development Handels GmbH, a destination portal
for mobile terminal devices with GPRS and UMTS capability was
therefore developed. St. Anton in the Tyrol was recently completed as
a pilot and is now being presented to customers by feratel’s sales
personnel. feratel Mobile enables tourism destinations to make useful
information available to visitors via their cell phones, from the
daily weather report to activities and events. To download the mobile
regional website onto their cell phones, visitors simply send a short
text message or e-mail and can then browse the information they
require.

Outlook In closing the feratel CEO said that, for the current
business year, the company was working on the assumption that the
business environment would remain positive in its core markets in
Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Positive stimuli and investments in
tourism products and services were expected above all in the new
countries of the EU, he continued. The next few months would be
particularly important for the company’s policy of expansion in
France and Spain, with key contacts already in place and firm
foundations laid for further activities on those markets.

"Given the present state of our knowledge, we are working on the
assumption that it will be possible to achieve our operative goal of
further improvements in terms of results and increased sales in the
2005/2006 business year," concluded Markus Schröcksnadel.

First quarter of financial 2005/2006 in figures (according to IFRS)

                            Q1 2005/2006            Q1 2004/2005
                                TEUR                    TEUR
Turnover                     2,812.1                 2,753.7
Income from operations       2,971.8                 3,058.7
EBITDA                        -209.3                  -162.4
EBIT                          -638.9                  -578.1
EBT                           -595.0                  -580.4

end of announcement                               euro adhoc 30.09.2005 08:05:05

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