Press Release Financial Reports
05.09.2007|Accolade from manager magazin

GILDEMEISTER - Best annual report 2006 ​​​​​​​

Bielefeld. GILDEMEISTER Aktiengesellschaft has been awarded first prize for its 2006 annual report. GILDEMEISTER came top in this year’s “best annual report” ranking by manager magazin. This sees the company jumping from SDAX winner last year to pole position ahead of some 200 evaluated reports. Content, layout, language and report efficiency were assessed.

This was the 13th set of awards for the annual reports of listed companies by the Hamburg-based business publication manager magazin. This competition is independent and is the most comprehensive comparison in Germany and Europe and one of the largest in the world. A team of assessors headed by Professor Jörg Baetge of the Institute for Audit Studies at University of Münster analyses the reports from the DAX, MDAX, SDAX, TecDAX and Euro Stoxx 50 stock market sectors and newly listed companies.

With the slogan of “Grasping the future. Setting trends.” the GILDEMEISTER annual report won over assessors and panellists with a high level of transparency, linguistic quality and innovative design. GILDEMEISTER responded to the higher information requirements of the capital market and satisfied the recommendations of the German Corporate Governance Code in full. The 2006 annual report can be ordered or downloaded from www.gildemeister.com. The content is also available as an interactive online version.

GILDEMEISTER Aktiengesellschaft
The Executive Board 

Disclaimer, Forward-looking statement

Disclaimer, Forward-looking statement

Statements relating to the future:

This press release contains forward-looking statements, which are based on current estimates of the management of future developments. Such statements are based on the management's current expectations and specific assumptions. They are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could lead to the actual future circumstances, including the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of GILDEMEISTER, differing materially from or being more negative than those expressly or implicitly assumed or described in these statements. The business activities of GILDEMEISTER are subject to a series of risks and uncertainties, which may result in forward-looking statements, estimates or forecasts becoming inaccurate. Should one of these factors of uncertainty or other unforeseeable event occur, or should the assumptions on which these statements are based prove incorrect, the actual results may differ materially from the results stated, expected, anticipated, intended, planned, aimed at, estimated or projected in these statements. Forward-looking statements must not be understood as a guarantee or assurance of the future developments or events contained therein.