EANS-News: BWT Aktiengesellschaft / BWT reports first quarter results increasing investments

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quarterly report

Mondsee (euro adhoc) - Revenue: EUR 119.8 million (+0.6%)
EBIT: EUR 6.0 million (-10.0%)
Net income: EUR 3.6 million (-17.6%)

Mondsee, 10.5.2013. In the first quarter of 2013, the BWT - Best
Water Technology - Group increased its consolidated revenues by 0.6%
to EUR 119.8 million. "Our strategy of brand building of BWT with the
end consumer yields first benefits that allow us to increase Group
revenues despite strong revenue declines in Southern Europe and
Scandinavia", says Andreas Weissenbacher, CEO of the BWT Group about
the first quarter 2013.

Revenues in the Point of Use business rose by 14.4% this year to EUR
11.9 million, thus accounting for 9.9% of consolidated revenues
(previous year: 8.7%). EBIT decreased by EUR 0.7 million to EUR 6.0
million due to greater material and staff costs. Consolidated
earnings after non-controlling interests came to EUR 3.6 million in
the first quarter of 2013, down 17.6% on the previous year's value of
EUR 4.3 million. Earnings per share were EUR 0.21, against EUR 0.26
in the previous year.

Investments in fixed assets rose from EUR 4.9 million to EUR 7.5
million in the first quarter. The most important ongoing investment
project is still the expansion of production and logistics capacity
for the Point of Use business at the Mondsee site.

As at 31 March 2013, gearing was 22.4%, against 14.2% for the same
period of the previous year and 13.7% at 31 December 2012. At the end
of March 2013, the equity ratio posted in BWT's consolidated balance
sheet was 45.0%, compared with 48.2% in March of the previous year
and 47.7% at the end of 2012.

Outlook Andreas Weißenbacher: "For the current financial year, we
expect to achieve a slight increase in consolidated revenues.
However, the additional costs in the Point of Use business and the
difficult market situation, particularly in Southern Europe, will not
allow any increase in profits in 2013."

The first quarter report 2013 is available on our homepage
www.bwt-group.com.

Further inquiry note:
BWT Aktiengesellschaft
Mag. Ralf Burchert
ralf.burchert@bwt-group.com
Tel.: 06232/5011-1113

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company: BWT Aktiengesellschaft
Walter-Simmer-Str. 4
A-5310 Mondsee
phone: 06232/5011-0
FAX: 06232/4058
mail: office@bwt.at
WWW: www.bwt-group.com
sector: Water Supply
ISIN: AT0000737705
indexes: Standard Market Continuous
stockmarkets: official market: Wien
language: English