GESCO grows dynamically in nine month period

- Incoming orders up by 39%, sales up by 30%

- Operating results increase disproportionately

- Full year guidance confirmed

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Wuppertal (euro adhoc) - Wuppertal, 14 February 2008 - The investment
holding company GESCO AG listed in the Prime Standard is recording
continued growth for the nine month period (1 Apr. - 31 Dec. 2007) in
the financial year 2007/2008 (1 Apr. 2007 - 31 Mar. 2008) and
confirming full year guidance.

Incoming orders were up considerably by 39 % reaching EUR 286 million
(EUR 206 million). Sales also increased significantly by 30 % and
reached EUR 251 million (EUR 193 million).

The key figures for the operating result again outperformed sales:
earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation
(EBITDA) increased by 63 % from EUR 21 million to EUR 34 million and
earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) grew by 79 % to EUR 27
million (EUR 15 million).

The financial result of the previous year´s period included one-off
earnings totalling EUR 2.6 million from the sale of a non-core
business minority interest in an industrial park. At 51 % the pre-tax
profit therefore increased less than EBIT in the period under review
and reached EUR 24 million (EUR 16 million). Group net income after
minority interest reached EUR 13.8 million (EUR 9.6 million) and
earnings per share amounted to EUR 4.57 (EUR 3.49).

Against the previous reporting date the GESCO Group workforce
increased by 11 %, up from 1,542 to 1,710 employees. This now also
includes the headcount from VWH Vorrichtungs- und Werkzeugbau
Herschbach GmbH, which was not part of disclosure as of the last
reporting date.

Given dynamic operating business and continuing momentum in results
the company increased its guidance for the full year 2007/2008 in
August 2007 and then again in November 2007. The last guidance
communicated amounted to Group sales of EUR 327 million, Group net
income after minority interest of EUR 17.5 million and earnings per
share of EUR 5.79. These targets are now being confirmed given the
positive nine month figures reported. GESCO Executive Board member
Dr. Hans-Gert Mayrose on the nine month figures: "In Q3 our operating
business continued to be buoyant which makes us very confident about
our guidance for the full year."

View the full quarterly report at www.gesco.de.

About GESCO AG GESCO AG is the parent company of a group of small and
medium-sized companies in the field of industrial Base Technologies.
GESCO acquires successful niche providers, generally as part of
succession arrangements, in order to retain and further develop these
long term. As a listed company (official trading on the Prime
Standard segment) GESCO AG offers private and institutional investors
access to the SMEs.

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E-Mail: info@gesco.de

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