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AURELIUS Sells Publicitas in a Management Buy-Out

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AURELIUS Sells Publicitas in a Management Buy-Out

02.12.2016 / 07:30
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AURELIUS Sells Publicitas in a Management Buy-Out

- Purchaser to systematically continue operational reorientation

- Further cost-savings and efficiency enhancement-measures planned

Munich, 2 December 2016 - AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA
(ISIN: DE000A0JK2A8) is to sell its subsidiary Publicitas, a leading
advertising marketer whose head offices are located in Zurich, Switzerland,
to its existing management team headed by CEO Joerg Nuernberg and CFO Dr
Carsten Brinkmeier. It was agreed that no information on the financial
details of the transaction would be disclosed.

Publicitas has a cross-media portfolio of over 8,000 promotional offerings
in Switzerland and abroad. Advertising clients and agencies can use these
to position their messages via media placements in leading daily
newspapers, luxury magazines, on outside advertising, in TV and radio
stations and on mobile and digital platforms in over 100 countries.

AURELIUS took over Publicitas from the Swiss PubliGroupe in July 2014 and
since then, has given it an entirely new operational direction and
consolidated the business. The purchasing management team will
systematically continue the measures already initiated and will continue to
expand digital activities with top priority.

Support processes such as accounting, order-handling and other
administrative processes are to be successively outsourced to the
established shared service-centre ad back-office in Bratislava (Slovakia),
thereby contributing to further cost-savings and increases in efficiency.

ABOUT AURELIUS
AURELIUS Group is a pan-European asset manager with offices in Munich,
London, Stockholm and Madrid. Over the last ten years AURELIUS has grown
from a local turnaround investor to an international multi-asset manager
investing in a wide range of sectors and across the capital structure.

AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA (ISIN: DE000A0JK2A8, Ticker
Symbol: AR4) represents the listed entity within the AURELIUS Group that
focusses on investing in Special Situations and MidMarket transaction
opportunities. AURELIUS Equity Opportunities currently has 22 portfolio
companies located across Europe which employ around 23,000 people and
generate annual revenues of approximately EUR3.0 billion. The shares of
AURELIUS Equity Opportunities are traded on all German stock exchanges with
a market capitalisation of c. EUR1.7 billion as of December 2016.

With its group charity AURELIUS Refugee Initiative, AURELIUS provides
comprehensive support for refugees on their way towards a better life.

To find out more, visit www.aureliusinvest.com

CONTACT
AURELIUS Group
Anke Banaschewski
Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-Mail: [e-mail]


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Language: English
Company: AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA
Ludwig-Ganghofer-Straße 6
82031 Grünwald
Germany
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Internet: www.aureliusinvest.de
ISIN: DE000A0JK2A8
WKN: A0JK2A
Listed: Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart,
Tradegate Exchange; Open Market in Frankfurt


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