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First quarter 2015: CENIT increases EBIT by 10.7%, sales in line with expectations - Seite 2

deposits and liquid assets totaled EUR k 41,739 (31st Dec. 2014: EUR k
33,250). The operative cashflow was EUR k 8,239 (prior year: EUR k 9,846).

Employees

On 31 March 2015, CENIT Group employed 640 staff (prior year: 674).
Group-wide personnel costs for the reporting period were EUR k 12,750
(prior year: EUR k 12,592). CENIT is currently training 50 young
professionals in various vocations. The trainees include students from the
Dual-Training University of Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) in the fields of
informatics and economics, as well as trainees in the field of information
technology.

Outlook

For the current year, the CENIT Group targets sales growth by 3%. The
individual segments are planned to be in line with the overall development.
On the whole, CENIT is anticipating a rise of approximately 5% in earnings
(EBIT), which will be contributed to by both business divisions.

Please visit CENIT's homepage for the full Q1 Report 2015:
www.cenit.com/quartalsbericht.

About CENIT:

CENIT has been successfully active for more than 25 years as a leading
consulting and software provider for optimizing business processes in the
fields of Digital Factory, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), SAP
Solutions, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Business Intelligence
(BI) and Application Management Services (AMS). CENIT supplements standard
solutions from strategic partners such as Dassault Systèmes, SAP and IBM
with well-established proprietary software developments. These include the
FASTSUITE product family for software solutions in the digital factory
world, cenitCONNECT for SAP PLM-related processes, cenitSPIN as a
high-performance PLM desktop, as well as CENIT ECLISO for efficient
information management. The enterprise employs about 700 staff world-wide,
serving customers e.g. from the automotive, aerospace, mechanical
engineering, tool and mold construction, financial services, commercial and
consumer goods industries.

Please send queries to:

CENIT AG
Investor Relations
Industriestrasse 52-54, D-70565 Stuttgart
Tel.:[phone]
Fax:[phone]
Email: [e-mail]

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the business, financial and earnings situation of, as well as profit
projections for, CENIT. Such future-oriented statements are characterized
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