EANS-News: SinnerSchrader back to double digit growth in the fourth quarter of 2011/2012 / Figures for the whole financial year in line with the most recent forecast

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Hamburg, 18 October 2012 (euro adhoc) - With total revenue in the
amount of more than 9 million euros and EBITA in the range of 0.5
million euros, SinnerSchrader made up ground in the fourth quarter of
2011/2012 (1 June to 31 August 2012) after a difficult third quarter.

Revenue growth in the fourth quarter, in comparison to the same
quarter in the preceding year, was back in the double-digit range.
With the SKODA decision in favour of SinnerSchrader as a global
digital lead agency, the SinnerSchrader agency also asserted itself
in the face of competition against national and international rivals
in the quarter of the report, and gained a significant new customer.
SinnerSchrader Mobile also contributed to the positive development of
business, with pleasing increases in revenue and more new customers,
among which mobilcom-debitel and Karstadt. spot-media won through in
the face of competition for a customer operating in the mineral oil
industry.

The business development of spot-media, and the capacity adjustments
implemented in June that became necessary as a result of this
development, had a considerable, negative effect on the operating
result (EBITA) of the quarter, even if this result was again clearly
positive.

There were also further operative losses in the adserving business.
These losses were due to the reorientation of the newtention Group,
which was renamed Next Audience, together with an enforced expansion
of the sales and marketing capacity. The reorientation resulted from
the excessively weak development of the retargeting business in the
mementoo network, on the one hand, and new market dynamics for
advertisers in the field of audience management, on the other hand.
With the new business approach, Next Audience already gained
Bigpoint, one of the world's largest suppliers of online games, as a
pilot customer.

On the basis of the provisional, unaudited figures of the
Consolidated Financial Statements, net revenue for the 2011/2012
financial year was just under 36 million euros, which corresponds to
revenue growth of around 16 per cent in comparison to the previous
year. As already announced, SinnerSchrader thus exceeds the original
forecast of 35.5 million euros for the financial year.

EBITA for the year as a whole is likely to amount to around 1.5
million euros, and will hence be in the range of 1.3 million euros to
2.0 million euros, as was recently expected. This weak operative
result was mainly due to spot- media's revenue shortfall and the
restructuring measures that became necessary as a result thereof.
However, the reorganisation also saw Next Audience falling short of
its operative earnings targets for the financial year. Considerable
difficulties with a SinnerSchrader agency project in the first half
of the financial year prevented the off-setting of some of these
losses in earnings. By contrast, operative targets were achieved or
exceeded in the media business, in business with mobile applications,
and for next commerce.

Depending on assessment issues which have at present not yet been
conclusively evaluated, net income is expected to be in the range of
0.1 million to 0.5 million euros.

The liquidity reserve amounted to 5.2 million euros on the balance
sheet date of 31 August 2012, thus falling short of the figure for
the previous year by just over 0.5 million euros, in spite of a weak
result. On 31 August 2012, there were 419 employees in the
SinnerSchrader Group.

The final, audited Consolidated Financial Statements for 2011/2012
will be published on 8 November 2012, together with a dividend
announcement and a forecast for the 2012/2013 financial year.

About SinnerSchrader

SinnerSchrader is one of Europe's leading digital agencies. It
develops interactive strategies, platforms and applications that
create far-reaching relationships between the consumer and brand.
More than 400 people work for the SinnerSchrader Group in Hamburg,
Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin, Prague and Hanover for customers including
Allianz, SKODA, TUI, Tchibo, simyo, REWE, comdirect bank, the PPR
Group and Steigenberger. SinnerSchrader was founded in 1996 and went
public in 1999.

Contact for Press and Public Relations

Benjamin Nickel
Head of Corporate Communications
presse@sinnerschrader.com

Contact for Shareholder Information

Thomas Dyckhoff
Finance Director
ir@sinnerschrader.com

SinnerSchrader Aktiengesellschaft
Völckersstraße 38
22765 Hamburg
Germany
T. +49. 40. 39 88 55-0
F. +49. 40. 39 88 55-55

Further inquiry note:
Thomas Dyckhoff
CFO
Telefon: +49(0)40 398855-113
E-Mail: t.dyckhoff@sinnerschrader.de

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company: SinnerSchrader AG
Völckersstraße 38
D-22765 Hamburg
phone: +49(0)40-398855-0
FAX: +49(0)40-398855-55
mail: info@sinnerschrader.de
WWW: http://www.sinner-schrader.de
sector: Software
ISIN: DE0005141907
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