Heidelberg Announces Preliminary Figures for 2007/2008

The preliminary order backlog at March 31, 2008 was 874 million Euro (previous year: 1.018 billion Euro). In the period under review, the Heidelberg Group recorded an operating result of 268 million Euro (previous year, adjusted for positive one-time effects: 302 million Euro). This represents an operating return on sales of 7.3 percent (adjusted value for the previous year: 7.9 percent). The previous year’s figure was boosted by the sale of Linotype GmbH and the R&D Center in Heidelberg (“sale and lease back”).