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Viscom AG continues positive revenue development. Management confirms annual forecast for 2016.

DGAP-News: Viscom AG / Key word(s): 9-month figures/Interim Report
Viscom AG continues positive revenue development. Management confirms annual
forecast for 2016.

14.11.2016 / 07:55
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Viscom AG continues positive revenue development.
Management confirms annual forecast for 2016.

- Incoming orders: EUR 57,334 thousand (previous year: EUR 47,804
thousand, +19.9 %)

- Revenue: EUR 50,775 thousand (previous year: EUR 47,476 thousand, +6.9
%)

- EBIT: EUR 4,110 thousand (previous year: EUR 5,288 thousand, -22.3 %)

- EBIT-Margin: 8.1 % (previous year: 11.1 %)

Hanover, 14 November 2016 - Viscom AG (ISIN DE0007846867) continued to
successfully reinforce its position on the market with its products and
services in the third quarter, carrying forward with the positive revenue
development it recorded in the previous quarters. Thanks in particular to
its strong positioning in the areas of 3D AOI and X-ray inspection, Viscom
was able to win over further existing and new customers across a wide range
of benchmarks, including in direct comparison with its strong peer group.
This helped it to record revenue growth of around 7 percent as at the end
of the quarter.

Incoming orders were up around 20 % year-on-year after the first nine
months of the current financial year, while orders on hand increased by
almost 28 %. There are currently no signs of a slowdown in demand for
inspection systems; instead, the Group continued to benefit from the steady
rise in customer interest in 3D inspection in particular. Viscom is also
seeing growing demand for its manual X-ray inspection system. This boasts
the best image quality for maximum magnification and offers significant
potential for the Group's product range in the era of Industry 4.0 thanks,
in particular, to its intelligent integration with other Viscom inspection
gates as part of a closed-loop network. Increased customer demand for
product demonstrations is also being observed.

The Viscom Group has again succeeded in setting new records and
demonstrating that its strategic approach of seeking to continuously and
sustainably expand its global market position while increasing brand
awareness is the right one. As in the first half of 2016, the necessary
expansion of the workforce in the areas of production, sales and service in
order to enable further growth in the coming years and the salary increases