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Financial Figures/Balance Sheet/Annual financial statements for 2011

Köln (euro adhoc) - OVB Group concludes the 2011 finan-cial year with
good results

-Considerable sales and earnings growth -Solid growth in consultant
base and steady expansion of customer numbers -Dividend proposal of
EUR0.35 per share -Target for 2012: Sales growth with improved margin

Cologne/Frankfurt am Main, 27 March 2012 - OVB closed the 2011
financial year with a strong increase in sales and earnings. At
EUR222.1 million (previous year: EUR197.3 million), total sales
commission was 12.6% above the previous year´s figure. "2011 was a
good year for OVB", states Michael Rentmeister, CEO of the Group
since January 2012. "It was particularly important that we succeeded
in bringing the upturn of the past financial year into 2012."

In Central and Eastern Europe, total sales commission increased
almost 35.3% to EUR126.2 million, with Germany recording moderate
growth of 2.0% to EUR72.8 million. The six countries of OVB´s
Southern and Western Europe segment suffered in part under
considerable macroeconomic problems.At EUR23.1 million, total sales
commission here fell short of the previous year´s result by 29.3%.

The Group generated earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of
EUR6.1 million, equating to growth of 27.3% (previous year: EUR4.8
million). Central and Eastern Europe contrib-uted EUR10.6 million to
EBIT (previous year: EUR8.2 million), Germany EUR6.1 million
(previous year: EUR5.6 million). The EBIT loss of the Southern and
Western Europe segment amounted to EUR2.4 million (previous year: EUR
- 0.5 million). The Group´s EBIT margin was 2.7% (previous year:
2.4%).

In the past financial year, consolidated net income climbed to EUR4.2
million (previous year: EUR4.0 million), resulting in basic earnings
of EUR0.29 per share (previous year: EUR0.28 with the same number of
shares). The Executive Board and Supervisory Board will propose to
the Annual General Meeting on 5 June 2012 that it adopts a dividend
of EUR0.35 for the 2011 financial year (previous year: EUR0.50).

The number of customers increased by 2.1% year-on-year, across
Europe, OVB advises approximately 2.9 million customers. The number
of full-time financial consultants working for OVB across Europe
increased from 4,600 to 4,908 sales representatives over the course
of 2011, up 6.7%.

"In the current financial year, we are planning to continue
increasing sales and improving our results", says Michael
Rentmeister, Group CEO, describing the objectives for 2012 as a
whole.

About OVB Group

OVB Group, with its holding company headquartered in Co-logne, is one
of the leading European financial sales organ-isations. Since its
founding in 1970, customer-oriented con-sulting for private
households with regard to asset protec-tion, asset building, pension
plans and real estate acquisi-tion has been the focus of OVB´s
business activities. OVB currently advises some 2.9 million customers
across Europe, working in cooperation with over 100 renowned product
part-ners. OVB is presently active in 14 countries, with 4,908
full-time financial consultants working for the Group. In 2011, OVB
Holding AG and its subsidiaries generated total sales commission of
EUR222.1 million and EBIT of EUR6.1 million. OVB Holding AG has been
listed on the Frankfurt Stock Ex-change (Prime Standard, ISIN
DE0006286560) since July 2006.

The presentation of the annual results and the annual report 2011 can
be downloaded from the Investor Relations section of www.ovb.ag.

This corporate news is also available on the Internet at:

http://www.ovb.ag/InvestorRelations/IRInformationen.aspx

Further inquiry note:
Brigitte Bonifer
Investor Relations
Tel.: +49 (0)221 2015 288
E-Mail: bbonifer@ovb.de

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company: OVB Holding AG
Heumarkt 1
D-50667 Köln
phone: +49 (0)221 2015 0
FAX: +49 (0)221 2015 264
mail: ovb@ovb-holding.ag
WWW: www.ovb.ag
sector: Financial & Business Services
ISIN: DE0006286560
indexes: CDAX, Classic All Share, Prime All Share
stockmarkets: free trade: Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart,
regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt
language: English