Personnel changes at the Bavarian construction chemistry specialist in the year 2013 starts the construction chemicals specialist PCI Augsburg GmbH with a restructured top management: the business of PCI Augsburg GmbH is in the future by the two managing directors Clemens Bierig as spokesman of the Management Board and Manfred Grundmann. Dirk Bremm, formerly head of the European trade took over the business activities of BASF construction chemicals to January 1, 2013 in North and South America. At the same time Dr. Josef Weichmann taking on new duties as senior technical innovation, procurement and special projects at the BASF construction chemicals, trostberg, West Germany expert. In addition, he will join the Supervisory Board of PCI Augsburg GmbH. The restructuring of the PCI leadership goes hand in hand with a new strategic orientation of the PCI in the European core markets. Future Manfred Grundmann will take over the management of the distribution in Germany, Austria, BeNeLux and Denmark, Sweden and Norway as Managing Director and responsibility the responsibility for supply chain management at PCI. With this step we will optimize the services together on the one hand for our customers and while continuously improving the efficiency of our internal processes”, so Grundmann.

Clemens Baker since early 2007 in the management of the PCI, will promote the further strategic orientation of the PCI in Europe and the distribution in the Switzerland, France, and the PCI flooring technology. Prof. Dr. Josef Felix Berger, formerly head of the technical department, takes over in addition January product development at PCI. Contact: Doris Sahoo PCI Augsburg GmbH phone: + 49 (821) 5901-326 fax: + 49 (821) 5901-459-E-Mail:

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2011, The settled payment transactions in Germany amounted to over 1.7 billion transactions. easycash loyalty solutions GmbH is the German market leader for card-based customer loyalty and gift voucher solutions, which are equipped also with payment and credit card functions. The sister company of easycash GmbH maintains a variety of diverse programs and processed 2010 35 million payment and bonus transactions throughout Europe. The 75 Employees of the Hamburg-based company serve more than 26 million customer accounts. easycash GmbH, to the DIN 20, D-40885 Ratingen registered office of the company: Amtsgericht Dusseldorf, Ratingen, HRB No. 43846 Managing Director: Marc Birkner, David Thogmartin easycash loyalty solutions GmbH, Hugh-Greene-WEG 2, D-22529 Hamburg headquarters: Hamburg, HRB No. 103195, Amtsgericht Hamburg Managing Director: Marc Birkner, Jochen Freese

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KSB group has achieved a group turnover of 1.090,1 million in the first HalbJahr with stable sales KSB. The pump and valve manufacturers achieved in a difficult market environment again approximately (- 0.8%) the level of the months of January to June 2012. As KSB observes in his today published half-yearly financial report, the UMSatz of the German parent company of the Group has evolved in positive: KSB AG invoiced several major contracts between January and June and boosted so their revenue to 415,5 million (+ 4.2%). For the full year KSB assumes unchanged, to exceed the revenues of the previous year, provided that no further deterioration in the economy. Also in the order intake, KSB wants moderate wachsen in the current fiscal year. Still behind the vergleichbaren values of the previous year, the company was back to the middle of the year.

In the first six months received orders amounting to 1.096,4 million (- 5.6%) in the group. Was the reason for the weaker job development restrained investment activity in the project business for the KSB foresees a recovery in the second half of the year. KSB AG received orders that were with 380,1 million to 6.9% lower than the corresponding previous year. Based on this order intake and sales development, KSB scored a consolidated net income before income taxes of 48.8 million in the first six months. This is 3.5 million (- 6.7%), compared to the first half of 2012. especially the sustained price pressure in the project business has had a negative impact. In anticipation of a slight increase business volume, KSB 2013 so that a result nearly expects to reach last year’s level. To the middle of the year the number of employees of the Group amounted to 16.565; This means an increase of 3.4% compared to June 30, 2012.