WAALWIJK, The Netherlands, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The management of DOCDATA N.V. today announces that the Group will publish the consolidated figures for the first half of the 2008 financial year on Tuesday 29 July 2008 by issuing a press release at 07.30AM Amsterdam time, before opening hours of the stock exchange. Consequently, the management will discuss the 2008 half-year results in a meeting for which both financial press and analysts will be invited, to be held at 10.30AM Amsterdam time in the Mercurius room of the Financieel Nieuwscentrum Beursplein 5 of NYSE Euronext Amsterdam (Beursplein 5, 1012 JW Amsterdam, +31-20-5505505).
Originally, the announcement of the 2008 half-year results was scheduled for Thursday 17 July 2008, as disclosed in the overview with important dates in the 2007 Annual Report of DOCDATA N.V. The changed planning predominantly has two causes, based on which management decided to take (on this occasion) more time for the preparation of the consolidated figures to be published by DOCDATA N.V.:
- effective 1 January 2008, the organisation structure of the Group has been changed from a country organisation to a divisional structure, with the Internet Service Company docdata and the Technology Company Industrial Automation Integrators identified as two separate organisations. The comparable figures for the first half of the 2007 financial year will also have to be based on this new structure;
- the integration and inclusion in the consolidation during the first half of the 2008 financial year of two recent acquisitions, which have resulted in a majority interest of the Group in Pegasus e-Business GmbH in Germany (70% starting 1 January 2008) and in Hitura Ltd. in the United Kingdom (61.2% starting 1 February 2008). For both acquisitions, a valuation in respect of the purchase price allocation, which is required under IFRS, has been performed.
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DOCDATA N.V. has been listed at the NYSE Euronext since 1997 and exists of two different organisations, docdata and Industrial Automation Integrators.
The Internet Service Company docdata (http://www.docdata.com) is an European market leader with a strong basis in The Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom, and exists of four divisions:
- docdata commerce - docdata payments - docdata fulfilment - docdata media
The Technology Company Industrial Automation Integrators (http://www.iai.nl) is a high tech engineering company specialised in developing and building machines for very accurate and high speed processing of all kinds of products and materials. IAI delivers clients globally in the following sectors:
- securing and personalising of security documents - processing of packaging materials - processing of solar cells - processing of other materials (such as motion picture subtitling)
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Further information: DOCDATA N.V., M.E.T. Verstraeten, CFO, Tel. +31-416631-100
