EANS-Adhoc: BAUER Aktiengesellschaft / Bauer suffers setback in Equipment segment and updates forecast

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6-month report

04.08.2009

Schrobenhausen, August 4, 2009 - With total Group revenues of EUR
681.0 million (previous year: EUR 719.5 million, change: -5.4
percent), BAUER Aktiengesellschaft (ISIN DE0005168108) experienced a
significant downturn of 43.3 percent in after-tax profit in the first
half of the year, to EUR 21.1 million (previous year: EUR 37.2
million).

This setback was prompted by the drastic fall in sales of and demand
for standard construction machinery in the Equipment segment, in the
wake of the global economic crisis. In that area of business, orders
in hand at the half-way point slumped by 72.5 percent to EUR 81.1
million (previous year: EUR 294.9 million), representing
approximately one and a half months´ capacity utilization. Although
the performance of the segment remained stable at EUR 372.3 million
(previous year: EUR 365.7 million; change: +1.8 percent), external
revenues were already down 7.7 percent. The segment´s operating
profit (EBIT) of EUR 33.1 million (previous year: EUR 51.1 million)
showed a decline of 35.2 percent compared with the prior-year figure.

The Group has already taken measures to hold this trend in check by
reducing short-term staff and introducing short-time at virtually all
its plants. The two other strategic segments of the BAUER Group,
Construction and Resources, are having a stabilizing effect but are
unable to compensate for the downturn in Equipment. BAUER
Aktiengesellschaft has consequently decided to revise its forecast
for 2009 as a whole. It now expects to generate consolidated revenues
of about EUR 1.3 instead of 1.4 billion (previous year: EUR 1.5
billion). According to the latest calculations, profit after tax will
fall to around one-third of the prior-year figure (EUR 107.5
million). The company had previously been working on the basis that
it would be able to emulate the result for 2007 (approx. EUR 74
million).

The company will be publishing its half-year interim report as
planned on August 14, 2009.

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Further inquiry note:

Bettina Mestenhauser

Head of Investor Relations

Phone: +49 8252 97 1918

Fax: +49 8252 97 2900

Email: investor.relations@bauer.de

Branche: Construction & Property
ISIN: DE0005168108
WKN: 516810
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