EANS-Adhoc: Basler AG / Profit turnaround reached - Growth in sales and positive result for 2010 in sight.

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3-month report

06.05.2010

-Profit turnaround reached sooner than expected -Demand for digital
cameras increased reaching new record level -Short-time work ended
-Incoming orders: EUR 12.2 million (previous year: EUR 7.1 million,
+72 %) -Sales: EUR 9.3 million (previous year: EUR 8.0 million, +16
%) -Pre-tax earnings: EUR 0.4 million (previous year: EUR -2.0
million, EUR +2.4 million) -Cash flow: -0.2 Mio. EUR (previous year:
EUR 2.2 million, EUR -2.4 million) -Forecast for 2010: growth in
sales in the double-digit percentage range, positive earnings before
taxes

Ahrensburg, May 06, 2010 - The first quarter of 2010 went better than
expected for Basler AG. Incoming orders, sales, and pre-tax earnings
were above the previous year's values and above the values in our
budget. With positive pre-tax earnings, the profit turnaround was
reached sooner than planned.

The group's sales amounted to EUR 9.3 million in the reporting
period, exceeding the previous year's value of EUR 8.0 million by 16
%. Incoming orders for the group increased by 72 % reaching EUR 12.2
million (previous year: EUR 7.1 million). The gross results increased
to EUR 3.6 million (previous year: EUR 2.8 million, +29 %). The gross
margin reached 39 % corresponding to 4 percentage points above the
previous year's value of 35 %. In the first quarter of 2010, Basler
AG achieved a result before taxes (EBT) for the group of EUR 0.4
million. This corresponds to an increase of EUR 2.4 million above the
previous year's value of EUR -2.0 million.

In the first three months, the operating cash flow amounted to EUR
-0.2 million (previous year: EUR 2.2 million). The free cash flow
calculated in the first quarter to EUR -2.2 million, declining by
approximately EUR 2.5 million (previous year: EUR 0.3 million).
Liquid assets amounted to EUR 4.9 million at the end of the reporting
period and therewith were lower by EUR 2.8 million compared to the
previous year (-36 %). Compared to December 31, 2009, funds available
decreased by EUR 0.6 million (-11 %).

In the first quarter of 2010, Basler AG achieved in its "Components"
business segment sales amounting to EUR 7.8 million. The revenue from
industrial digital cameras and for video surveillance increased by 81
% (previous year: EUR 4.3 million), slightly exceeding the level
reached in 2008. The gross margin increased due to decreased
production costs and positive exchange rate effects. The segment
result before interest and taxes amounted to EUR 1.6 million
(previous year: EUR -1.1 million, EUR +2.7 million) and was thus
clearly in the positive range. Incoming orders reached the new record
level of EUR 10.8 million, nearly doubling the previous year's value
of EUR 5.5 million (+96 %). The previously strongest incoming orders
from Q2 of 2008 (EUR 8.8 million) were exceeded by 23 %. Demand
developed positively across all regions and product lines. On the
regional level, orders increased most strongly in Asia, followed by
North America and Europe.

In the "Solutions" business segment revenues were realized in the
first quarter of 2010 amounting to EUR 1.5 million (previous year:
EUR 3.7 million, -59 %). The segment results before interest and
taxes amounted to EUR -0.7 million. Losses decreased in comparison to
the previous year by EUR 0.1 million (EUR -0.8 million) in spite of
substantial declines in sales due to cost cutting measures
implemented in 2009. Resulting from the less favorable product
portfolio, the gross margin was below the previous year's value. The
level of operating costs, having decreased by approximately one third
compared to the comparison period, and increasing sales will result
in distinctly improved earnings starting from the second quarter. The
equipment investment in the LCD industry further increased in the
reporting period. Demand for solar thin film inspection solutions
still continued to be beak.

The economic general conditions improved in the first quarter of
2010. The economic research institutes currently expect the positive
trend to continue at least until the end of the first half-year.
There are still risks for a temporary slow down of the economic
recovery in the second half-year. The German Engineering Federation
(Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau - VDMA) assumes in its
current forecast for the German image processing industry growth in
sales amounting to +5 % compared to the previous year.

The positive development of the first quarter confirms our projection
for fiscal year 2010, as given in the annual report for 2009. Due to
the increased capacity utilization, we suspended the short-time work,
implemented in the beginning of 2009, at the end of the reporting
period. In our current view, we expect sales to increase in the
double-digit percentage range for the components business. We expect
approximately stable sales revenues for our solutions business
compared to the previous year. Based on the results of the first
quarter and against the background of persistent macroeconomic risk
for the second half-year, we expect for fiscal year 2010 sales to
increase to a level between EUR 39 and 41 million (previous year: EUR
33.5 million). After a pre-tax loss of EUR 8 million in 2009, we are
planning for earnings before taxes not below EUR 1.5 million for
2010.

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