DGAP-Adhoc: Bastei Lübbe AG: Successful placement of shares - Trading in the Prime Standard starts on October 8th 2013

Bastei Lübbe AG / Key word(s): IPO

03.10.2013 08:11

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Cologne, 3 October 2013 - Bastei Lübbe AG, a leading German publishing and
media group with renowned authors such as Dan Brown and Ken Follett
completed its initial public offering (IPO) despite a challenging market
environment, placing shares at an offering price of EUR 7.50 per share.
4,000,000 no par value ordinary bearer shares (shares) with a proportionate
amount of the share capital of EUR 1.00 per share were placed. Of these, up
to 3,300,000 million shares from a capital increase in Bastei Lübbe AG,
which would raise the share capital of EUR10,000,000.00 to up to
EUR13,300,000.00. Gross proceeds amounted to EUR30 million.

Trading in Bastei Lübbe AG shares in the Prime Standard, the quality
segment of the Regulated Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
characterized by the highest transparency requirements is planned for 8
October 2013.

Bastei Lübbe AG plans to use the proceeds from the IPO in their business
with focus on intensifying the development of own content as well as the
content and rights acquisition of top-selling books and authors.

Close Brothers Seydler Bank AG, based in Frankfurt am Main, acted as Sole
Global Coordinator and Sole Bookrunner, and Conpair AG, based in Essen,
acted as Financial Advisor on the IPO.

About Bastei Lübbe AG

Bastei Lübbe AG is a German publishing and media group long renowned for
bringing popular fiction as well as non-fiction to the mass market. Its
business activities include not only paperback and hardback books in print
form but also audiobooks, e-books, and other digital publications. Its
catalogue includes a wide range of fiction, non-fiction and entertainment
products intended for a wide readership, including not only the various
highly successful paperback fiction series for which Bastei Lübbe has long
been famed but also puzzle books and magazines. The group's business
activities additionally include the licensing of book rights and the
creation, production and marketing of gift, decorative and merchandising
articles.

Bastei Lübbe also owns the following non-consolidated shareholdings in
companies: 90% of Moravská Bastei MOBA, s.r.o. (Brno, Czech Republic), 100%
of Bastei Media GmbH (Erfurt, Germany), 50% of PRÄSENTA PROMOTION
INTERNATIONAL GmbH (Solingen, Germany), and 100% of Bastei Lübbe
Verwaltungs GmbH (Cologne, Germany).

The company also has smaller shareholdings in various book and periodical
distribution companies, none of which exceeds 5% of the respective
company's registered capital.

The business activities of Bastei Lübbe are broadly divided into segments:
Books, Non-Books, and Popular Fiction and Puzzle Publications, which in
turn include various product areas. The group publishes under 13 different
labels, which span its full range of market segments and product areas.

For the fiscal year 2012/2013, 80% of the group's revenues were derived
from the Books segment, while 11% came from Non-Books and the remaining 9%
from Popular Fiction and Puzzle Publications.

At the end of its fiscal year 2012/2013, the number of staff employed by
Bastei Lübbe was 265, compared to 210 at the close of the prior fiscal
year. These figures do not include the 15 staff employed by its
non-consolidated subsidiary Moravská Bastei MOBA, s.r.o. (Brno, Czech
Republic), or at its other non-consolidated subsidiaries and affiliates
(Bastei Media GmbH and PRÄSENTA PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL GmbH). As of the
date of the offering prospectus, the number of staff was 305, a further
increase since the end of fiscal year 2012/2013.

Barbara Fischer
Bastei Lübbe AG
Tel. +49 221 82002850
Fax +49 221 82001850
E-Mail: barbara.fischer@luebbe.de

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Language: English
Company: Bastei Lübbe AG
Schanzenstraße 6 - 20
51063 Köln
Germany
Phone: 02 21 / 82 00 - 0
Fax: 02 21 / 82 00 - 1900
E-mail: investorrelations@luebbe.de
Internet: www.luebbe.de
ISIN: DE000A1X3YY0, DE000A1K0169
WKN: A1X3YY, A1K016
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard)

Notierung vorgesehen / intended to be listed

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