Montabaur, May 7, 2008. The Management Board of United Internet AG today adopted the Group?s consolidated results according to IFRS for the first quarter of 2008. There was strong year-on-year growth in all key performance indicators.

Consolidated sales of United Internet AG achieved year-on-year growth of 19.3%, from EUR 336.9 million to EUR 402.0 million. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) grew by 31.2%, from EUR 63.4 million to EUR 83.2 million. Net income grew by 46.0%, from EUR 30.9 million (comparable prior-year figure) to EUR 45.1 million. Earnings per share (EPS) climbed 46.2%, from EUR 0.13 (comparable prior-year figure) to EUR 0.19.

The number of fee-based customer contracts grew to 7.46 million as of March 31, 2008 (prior year: 6.55 million). Of this total, the Information Management product line accounted for 1.24 million (prior year: 1.12 million), the Webhosting business for 3.31 million (prior year: 2.92 million), of which 1.63 million were outside Germany (prior year: 1.30 million), and Internet Access for 2.91 million (prior year: 2.51 million), of which 2.78 million were DSL contracts (prior year: 2.36 million). In comparison with March 31, 2007 the number of telephony customers grew by 540,000 to 1.91 million. Over 1 billion telephone minutes were completed per month (prior year: 780 million).

The report on the 1st quarter of 2008 will be published on May 9, 2008.

back to overview