Orell Füssli expects reduced earnings

Zurich, October 1, 2009. Suppliers’ technical development problems are delaying the availability of innovative security elements for the production of banknotes scheduled for the running year. Therefore the Orell Füssli Security Printing Division will face significant sales and profit shortfalls in the 2009 fiscal year. Orell Füssli assumes that these can be compensated by the majority in subsequent years.

Viewed overall, Orell Füssli continues to foresee weakness in the international capital goods market and ongoing restraint in book retailing in Switzerland in 2009. Despite lower sales in all divisions, Orell Füssli expects net profits in the region of some CHF 15 million in the 2009 financial year.

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Sönke Bandixen, CEO Orell Füssli
Phone +41 44 466 7273
ceo[at]orellfuessli.com

Orell Füssli is an international industrial and commercial group focusing on the core businesses of banknote & security printing, industrial systems used in the individualisation of security documents and branded products, and book retailing. The book publishing business has formed the traditional basis for the Zurich-based company – since 1519. Orell Füssli generates sales of some CHF 370 million with 1 100 employees at locations in 10 countries and is listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange.