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Bauer presents Half-Year Interim Report containing detailed analysis of its market segments

Schrobenhausen, (euro adhoc) -

. Total Group revenues down 5.4 percent to EUR 681.0 million.
 . 
After-tax profit down EUR 16.1 million to EUR 21.1 million.
 . 
Three-segment strategy and global presence proving to be stabilizing 
factors.
 . Forecast for 2009: total Group revenues of EUR 1.3 
billion and after-tax profit around a third of the previous year's 
level.
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August 14, 2009 - The business of
construction and machinery manufacturing group BAUER 
Aktiengesellschaft suffered from the effects of the global economic 
crisis in the second quarter of the year. Significant falls in the 
machinery manufacturing business could not be offset by the solid 
performance in specialist foundation engineering and the healthy 
growth of the Resources segment. Having published its key performance
indicators and updated its full-year forecast at the beginning of 
August, the BAUER Group today presents its Half-Year Interim Report 
containing a detailed analysis of its various business segments and 
markets.
Total Group revenues in the first half of the year were EUR 681.0 
million, down 5.4 percent against the previous year's figure. EBIT 
(earnings before interest and taxes) totalled EUR 44.9 million. This 
represented a fall of 7.3 percent relative to the previous quarter, 
and was down 29.2 percent against the previous-year comparative 
period, which had seen particularly strong earnings and growth. 
After-tax profit fell correspondingly by EUR 16.1 million, or 43.3 
percent, to EUR 21.1 million. Orders in hand held by the Group at the
mid-year point totalled EUR 523.4 million. This was 35.3 percent less
than at the same time last year. Bauer employed an average of 8,497 
people (previous year: 7,989) worldwide through the first half of the
year.
Business segments
The Group's strategic focus on its three business segments - 
Construction, Equipment and Resources - combined with its global 
presence is proving advantageous in the current market situation. In 
view of the widely varying trends being seen in the individual 
regions and market segments, this strategy is having a balancing and 
stabilizing effect across the Group.
The Construction segment is currently the key pillar of the business.
It admittedly witnessed declines in crisis-hit markets such as 
Eastern Europe and Dubai, and a fall in the number of large-scale 
projects following the extraordinary boom of last year, which 
together saw revenues drop 17.2 percent to EUR 279.4 million in the 
first six months of 2009. However, the segment's operating profit of 
EUR 12.9 million was 0.7 percent up (previous year: EUR 12.8 million)
and orders in hand even increased by EUR 21.6 million from the first 
to the second quarter of 2009. Orders in hand were down 23.4 percent 
to EUR 370.7 million relative to the previous year.
The recently established Resources segment achieved strong growth in 
the first half of the year as it targeted new, future-oriented 
markets. Its revenues increased by more than a third to EUR 71.2 
million (previous year: EUR 52.9 million). Alongside a major project 
in Oman, key drivers of this performance were the mining sector as 
well as new orders for water well engineering materials. The 
integration of the newly acquired SITE Group in Jordan has begun 
well. The segment also made a pleasing contribution to the 
development of the Group as a whole with a positive operating profit 
(EBIT) of EUR 637 thousand (previous year: EUR -550 thousand).
The area of our business proving most susceptible to the global 
crisis was the Equipment segment, which saw massive falls in demand 
and in sales of standard construction machinery. In this area of 
business, orders in hand at the half- way point slumped by 72.5 
percent to EUR 81.1 million (previous year: EUR 294.9 million), 
representing approximately one and a half months' capacity 
utilization. Although the performance of the segment remained stable 
at EUR 372.3 million (previous year: EUR 365.7 million; change: +1.8 
percent), external revenues were already down 7.7 percent. The 
segment's operating profit (EBIT) of EUR 33.1 million (previous year:
EUR 51.1 million) showed a decline of 35.2 percent compared with the 
prior-year figure.
Outlook
The Group has already taken effective measures to hold this trend in 
check by cutting back on temporary staff and introducing short-time 
working at almost all its plants. "We are deploying major efforts to 
cut costs on a massive scale, and we are currently tendering for a 
significant number of interesting projects," reports Chairman of the 
Management Board Professor Thomas Bauer. "If such major projects are 
in fact implemented, they may well deliver a rapid boost to 
contractors such as Bauer."
BAUER AG forecasts total Group revenues of around EUR 1.3 billion 
(previous year: EUR 1.5 billion). According to the latest 
calculations, profit after tax will fall to around one-third of the 
previous-year figure of EUR 107.5 million.
The full Interim Report, including a detailed analysis of the 
individual segments and markets, can be found on our website at 
http://www.bauer.de.
About Bauer
Bauer is a provider of services, machinery and ancillary products in 
the earth- working and groundwater fields. The Group markets its 
products and services all over the world. Its global spread allows it
to remain largely unaffected by fluctuating business cycles.
The operations of the Group are divided into three segments: 
Construction, Equipment and Resources. The Construction segment 
carries out specialist foundation engineering work all over the 
world, developing foundation and excavation projects as well as 
providing related construction services. In its Equipment segment, in
which it is the world market leader, Bauer offers an extensive range 
of machinery, equipment and tools for specialist foundation 
engineering. The Resources segment encompasses the Group's operations
in the exploitation of raw materials, in environmental technology, in
geothermal drilling operations and also in equipment for wells 
(including pumps and drills, screens and casings).
Bauer profits greatly from the collaboration between its three 
separate segments, enabling the Group to position itself as an 
innovative, highly specialized provider of complete solutions and 
services for demanding projects on the specialist foundation 
engineering and related markets.
Founded in 1790, Bauer today generates more than two thirds of its 
total revenues outside of Germany. Employing some 8,600 people, the 
Group's total revenues in 2008 were EUR 1.53 billion (previous year: 
EUR 1.2 billion). BAUER Aktiengesellschaft has been listed on the 
official market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since July 4, 2006 
(Prime Standard, ISIN DE0005168108).
GROUP KEY FIGURES - 1st half 2009 (IFRS)
|                                  |1st HY 2008  |1st HY 2009     |Change    |
|                                  |in EUR       |in EUR million  |          |
|                                  |million      |                |          |
|Total Group revenues*             |719.5        |681.0           |-5.4 %    |
|of which                          |             |                |          |
|- Germany                         |165.2        |181.2           |9.7 %     |
|- International                   |554.3        |499.8           |-9.8 %    |
|of which                          |             |                |          |
|- Construction                    |337.6        |279.4           |-17.2 %   |
|- Equipment                       |365.7        |372.3           |1.8 %     |
|- Resources                       |52.9         |71.2            |34.5 %    |
|- Other/Elim./Consol.             |-36.7        |-41.9           |n/a       |
|Consolidated revenues             |686.9        |652.2           |-5.0 %    |
|Sales revenues                    |594.7        |534.0           |-10.2 %   |
|Orders received                   |909.9        |532.8           |-41.4 %   |
|Orders in hand                    |808.4        |523.4           |-35.3 %   |
|EBITDA                            |89.1         |76.4            |-14.2 %   |
|EBITDA margin                     |15.0 %       |14.3 %          |n/a       |
|(as % of sales revenues)          |             |                |          |
|EBIT                              |63.4         |44.9            |-29.2 %   |
|EBIT margin                       |10.7 %       |8.4 %           |n/a       |
|(as % of sales revenues)          |             |                |          |
|Net profit or loss**              |37.2         |21.1            |-43.3 %   |
|Shareholders' equity              |297.2        |378.6           |27.4 %    |
|Equity ratio in %                 |30.5 %       |30.3 %          |n/a       |
|Earnings per share in EUR***      |2.09         |1.19            |-43.1 %   |
|Employees                         |7,989        |8,497           |6.4 %     |
*     At variance with the consolidated revenues presented in the 
Group income    statement, the total Group revenues presented here 
include portions of    revenues from associated companies as well as 
revenues    of non-consolidated subsidiaries and joint ventures.
**    Before minority interests
***   Diluted and basic
end of announcement                               euro adhoc

Further inquiry note:

Bettina Mestenhauser
Head of Investor Relations
Telefon: +49(0)8252 97 1918
E-Mail: investor.relations@bauer.de

Branche: Construction & Property
ISIN: DE0005168108
WKN: 516810
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