Reply Deutschland AG: Enhanced Investments, Guidance 2012 confirmed

Q1: Revenue EUR 14.3 Million, EBITDA EUR 0.6 Million

Gütersloh, May 04, 2012 - Reply Deutschland AG today published the results of the first quarter of financial year 2012. In the group, the software integrator achieved revenues of EUR 14.3 million, 11% below the previous year. Compared to the fourth quarter 2011 revenues declined 3%. Earnings before taxes, interest and depreciation (EBITDA) amounted to EUR 0.6 million following EUR 1.6 million in the last year. EBITDA-margin was 3.9% (previous year: 10.2%). Earnings before taxes (EBT) were EUR 0.4 million coming from EUR 1.3 million in 2011. Altogether, Reply Deutschland group after tax and minority shares obtained a net profit of
EUR 0.2 million until now (previous year: net profit EUR 0.8 million).

The business development in the first quarter 2012 was characterized by necessary investments: in the setup of the new startup companies Twice Reply (Focus: media industry) and Power Reply (Focus: utilities) as well as in employee education (due to the essentially intensified recruiting of new employees).

Liquidity and staff - Cash flow (according to DVFA/SG) up to now amounted to EUR 0.6 million (previous year: EUR 1.5 million). Liquidity slightly fell to EUR 14.3 million (end of 2011: EUR 16.2 million). The equity ratio rose to 62%. 394 employees were active in the group at the end of March 2012 (previous year: 408 employees).

Status and outlook - Based on the existing project pipeline the second half of financial year 2012 shall be significantly stronger. Against this background we confirm our guidance for the financial year 2012. The revenues of Reply Deutschland AG Group shall improve at a substantial single-digit rate. As well the EBITDA-margin is expected to further improve compared to the 10.4% achieved in financial year 2011.

In case of further questions please contact:

Michael Lückenkötter
Corporate Development
Investor Relations
Reply Deutschland AG
Bartholomäusweg 26
33334 Gütersloh
Tel.: +49 (5241) 5009-1017
E-Mail: m.lueckenkoetter@reply.de
www.reply.de

About Reply Deutschland AG

Reply Deutschland is a leading IT service provider which provides consulting, integration and outsourcing services for efficient corporate management. For our innovative, flexible and reliable solutions of the highest quality, we use adaptive and agile IT platforms and extend them with customer-specific components. This makes it possible for our customers to differentiate themselves in the market and creates long-term competitive advantages. Our customers profit from our sound knowledge of the industry they are operating in and the partnership-like cooperation with us. Reply Deutschland is organized as a network of independent and highly-specialized companies. The inclusion in the network of the European-wide IT service provider Reply gives Reply Deutschland additional access to the knowledge of over 3,400 IT experts. In 2011, Reply had a turnover of over 440 million euros in the main offices in Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom.