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Kirchhoff Consult maintains leading role in difficult markets - Focussing on reports and investor relations services

Hamburg (ots)

Kirchhoff Consult AG, a specialised consulting
agency in financial- and business communication, significantly
outperformed the relevant market within the last fiscal year. Before
one-time effects, the agency even showed a positive result. Due to
one-time expenses for re-structuring and  loss of receivables, the
final result was slightly negative.
With today 43 employees (Dec. 31, 2001: 55) in Hamburg, Munich,
Frankfurt, Lucerne and Vienna, Kirchhoff Consult AG generated a gross
profit of 5.0 Mio. Euro (2001: 5.5 Mio. Euro). The gross proft per
capita increased by ten percent Total revenue was 8.3 Mio Euro, in
2001 it was 9.5 Mio Euro.
"In a field of competitors convulsed by insolvencies and within a
crashed IPO-Market, we maintained our leading role", says Klaus
Rainer Kirchhoff, Chief Executive Officer of Kirchhoff Consult AG.
"Nevertheless, we also feel the price-pressure from the clients",
claims Kirchhoff. This is mostly compensated by fostering the core
competences of the consulting firm - Kirchhoff: "We are and will be
Germany's leading agency for annual reports and we are the only
german agency amongst Europe´s top 20, ranked third" - and with newly
designed products.
Having gained about half of its turnover with consulting IPOs few
years ago, the company has put itself on a much broader basis. "In
times like these with vanishing trust in the capital market, there is
a big need for efficient and true InvestorRelations work", says
Kirchhoff.
Therefore, Kirchhoff Consult AG fostered its activities on the
field of investor relations. "We offer our clients a perception
analysis, a specific investor´s targeting, preparation and personal
accompaniment during road shows and one-on-ones.  This is a holistic
consulting approach in order to prepare talks with investors" , says
Petra Nix, Member of Board of Kirchhoff Consult AG and managin g
director of the Swiss entity Kirchhoff Consult (Schweiz) AG situated
in Lucerne. This is not just aimed on the big market places like
London or Frankfurt. "There is a wide range of interesting investors
in other German towns as well as in Switzerland and Austria who like
to be convinced by good business cases", says Nix.
The perception analysis consists of intense interviews with
analysts, investors and financial journalists in order to examine the
capital market´s perception of the company. The analysis not just
comprises the interview´s result, but also the consequences for the
client´s strategy and communication.
Also corporate communication finds new challenges, according to
Klaus Rainer Kirchhoff. One of these is the development of Corporate
Citizenship- and Sustainable Development-Reports. With them, the
companies present their responsibility for employees, clients,
business partners and natural ressources and thus strengthen
confidence. For this, the Hamburg agency is mandated by several major
companies.
Kirchhoff Consult AG consists of the three branches  Equity
Consult, Financial Communications and Corporate Communications. It is
the interlocking between analysis, IR and PR that enables holistic
concepts for the clients.
The client´s list names international companies as Bayer or
Allianz, small- and midcap-firms as Thiel Logistics and Electronics
Line, but also a row of not-listed Mid-class-companies as Claas or
Eppendorf. Among the new clients you´ll find Hero, Otto, Vattenfall
Europe or Panalpina.
About Kirchhoff Consult:
Founded in 1994, Kirchhoff Consult, Hamburg, is a consulting
company for capital market´s- and corporate communication. We consult
numerous international, but also small and mid-cap companies in
various communication challenges - in the founding period, IPO, M&A
and on-going IR- and press work as well as in investor´s targetin. We
are Germany´s leading agency in the creation of annual reports and
the accompaniment of IPO. The three branches Equity Consult,
Financial Communications and Corporate Communication are precisely
tailored to the specific needs of our clients and are supported by a
in-house Design-Agency. We have 43 emplyees and are sited in Hamburg,
Munich, Frankfurt and Lucerne/Switzerland and Vienna / Austria.

Contact:

Mario Gross
Tel. +49/40/609'186-50
E-Mail: mario.gross@kirchhoff.de
Internet: http://www.kirchhoff.de