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EANS-News: SALZGITTER AG - First half-year of 2010

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The Salzgitter Group records pre-tax profit again in the second 
quarter of 2010
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6-month report
Subtitle: The Salzgitter Group records pre-tax profit again in the 
second quarter of 2010
The positive earnings trend of the
Salzgitter Group continued in the second quarter of the financial 
year 2010 in the form of a pre-tax profit. Contributing factors 
included the satisfactory capacity utilization situation of most 
product segments and the sharp increase in selling prices in steel 
trading operations. Particularly when compared with the crisis-ridden
previous year's period, the business of the Group has clearly 
stabilized. The majority of leading indicators support a more 
confident assessment of the outlook for business in the second 
half-year. The consolidated sales of the Group, which came to EUR 
4,034.2 million (first half of 2009: EUR 4,125.7 million) fell 
marginally short of the year-earlier level. In the second quarter of 
2010, the Salzgitter Group generated an operating pre-tax profit of 
EUR 18.6 million (second quarter of 2009: EUR -96.9 million), 
bringing the first half of 2010 to a close with an operating profit 
before tax of EUR 21.2 million (first half of 2009: EUR -158.6 
million). This half-yearly operating result already includes EUR 13.2
million in provisions for onerous contracts in connection with 
project orders booked and confirmed where the costs of production are
presumably no longer covered due to the exorbitant increases in the 
price of raw materials. The reported pre-tax result of the first 
half-year came to EUR -5.1 million (first half of 2009: EUR -195.2 
million) and includes an additional EUR 26.3 million in provisions 
for streamlining measures. Profit after tax stood at EUR -3.5 million
(first half of 2009: EUR -165.0 million), and earnings per share 
posted EUR -0.11 (first half of 2009: EUR -3.07). Return on capital 
employed (ROCE) of an annualized 0.4 % was in the black again (first 
half of 2009: EUR -8.1 %).
External sales by Division (EUR million):
H1 2010    (H1 2009)
Steel           1,081.6      (799.9)
Trading         1,409.2    (1,683.7)
Tubes             892.0    (1,107.9)
Services          195.3      (146.4)
Technology        429.7      (367.5)
Others/Cons.       26.4       (20.5)
Group           4,034.2    (4,125.7)
Earnings before tax by Division (EUR million):
H1 2010    (H1 2009)
Steel             -76,2     (-190.2)
Trading            43.4      (-57.7)
Tubes              13.1       (96.0)
Services           11.4       (-5.4)
Technology        -15.7      (-43.7)
Others/Cons.       18.9        (5.8)
Group              -5.1     (-195.2)
The short-lived fluctuations in the price of raw materials are a 
hindrance to any planning certainty. For this reason alone, it is 
currently not possible to arrive at an accurate, quantitative 
forecast for sales and profit of the Salzgitter Group. In 
consideration of the currently discernible risks and potential, we 
nonetheless believe that a pre-tax result above breakeven is 
achievable in the current financial year. As in recent years, we make
special reference to the fact that opportunities and risks from 
currently unforeseeable trends in selling prices, input materials and
capacity utilization developments, as well as changes in the currency
parity, may still affect performance considerably over the course of 
the financial year 2010. The resulting fluctuation in the 
consolidated pre-tax result may, as events in the first half year 
have shown, be within a considerable range, either to the positive or
to the negative. The dimensions of this range become clear if one 
considers that, with around 4 million tons of steel products to be 
sold by the end of this year by the Steel, Trading and Tubes 
divisions, an average difference of EUR 30 in the margin per ton is 
sufficient to cause a variation in the annual result of more than EUR
120 million. More information can be found in the full press release 
and interim report published today. (please refer to: 
www.salzgitter-ag.de).
end of announcement                               euro adhoc

Further inquiry note:

Bernhard Kleinermann
Tel.: +49 (0) 5341-21-3783
E-Mail: kleinermann.b@salzgitter-ag.de

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