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Rosenbauer International AG / Rosenbauer posts biggest-ever first-half-year sales

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6-month report/Half-year Financial Report 2014

Rosenbauer posts biggest-ever first-half-year sales
Steady revenue growth of 5%, to EUR 354.3 million
EBIT up 19% to EUR 20.0 million
Order trend still on the rise

KEY CORPORATE FIGURES 1-6/2014 1-6/2013 in %

Revenues in EUR million 354.3 338.5 + 5%
EBIT in EUR million 20.0 16.8 + 19%
EBT in EUR million 19.6 17.1 + 15%
Net profit for the period in EUR million 15.4 11.7 + 32%
Cash flow from operating activities in EUR million (85.9) (15.5)
Total assets in EUR million 525.8 474.3 + 11%
Equity in % of total assets 36.2% 35.7% + 1%
Investments in EUR million 4.8 11.3 + 31%
Earnings per share EUR 1.7 1.4 + 21%
Employees as at June 30 2,761 2,504 + 10%
Order intake in EUR million 438.1 420.4 + 4%
Order backlog as at June 30 in EUR million 731.8 682.5 + 7%

The markets for the fire-equipment industry are characterized once again by
widely differing challenges in 2014. Overall, 2014 is not expected to bring any
marked improvement, although indications of an upturn are starting to make
themselves felt in certain markets. After several years of contraction, the
world's biggest single market - the USA - is showing the first signs of a return
to growth. The European fire-equipment market is nowhere near as homogeneous as
the market in the United States, and so the picture differs depending on which
country one looks at. The highly industrialized markets appear to have put the
downturn behind them, and economic recovery is now in sight. For this reason,
public-sector procurement behavior is expected to stabilize, thanks both to
economic recovery and to a resumption of capital investments which had been
deferred due to austerity policies.

Revenues
In the first half of 2014, the Rosenbauer Group boosted revenues by 5% to EUR
354.3 million (1-6/2013: EUR 338.5 million). Another difference from the first
half of 2013 was that the revenues of Rosenbauer Saudi Arabia and the newly