DGAP-News: Balda AG: Balda’s main shareholders commit themselves to subscribe the entire share

30.11.2007

Balda AG / Key word(s): Capital Increase

30.11.2007 19:40

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Balda’s main shareholders commit themselves to subscribe the entire share

capital increase at 10 Euro per share

Bad Oeynhausen, November 30, 2007. Balda’s main shareholders, Michael

Chiang, Audley Capital, Wyser-Pratte Management Co and Sapinda

International, have informed Balda’s managing board that they will exercise

their respective subscription rights in full at a subscritption price of 10

Euro. In addition the main shareholders will as well subscribe for any new

shares not taken up by existing shareholders by means of the proposed

private placement at 10 Euro.

‘We are delighted, that our main shareholders strongly support the issue’,

said Joachim Gut, the CEO of Balda AG. ‘As a result, the entire volume of

the share capital increase is already covered by the main shareholders

prior to the start of the subscription period’, Gut added.

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Company profile Balda AG

The internationally operating Balda Group develops and produces highly

integrated devices comprising plastic, metal and electronic components as

well as touch sensors. Among the customers of the SDAX listed company are

international brand-names from the mobile telephony industry, medical

technology and various related markets.

The integration of plastic and touch screen technologies creates completely

new customer benefits. Only Balda currently offers both technologies from

one source on a global scale. The group has a strong position in the

important growth markets China and India and owns four production

facilities in the region. Plants in Brazil and in Malaysia, as well as the

facility in Germany for Balda Medical, underline the global competitiveness

of the group of companies.

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If you have any questions please contact: Balda AG, Clas Röhl, Phone: +49

5734 922 2728, Fax: +49 5734 922 2691, Mail: croehl@balda.de, Internet:

www.balda.de

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This press announcement includes ‘forward-looking statements’ which are

based on the current expectations of the management of Balda. They are

subject to risks and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend

on circumstances that will occur in the future, such as, for example,

developments in the mobile communications industry, changes in technology

and the ability to timely and successfully develop new products and various

other factors. Balda does not undertake any obligation to update publicly

or revise forward-looking statements except to the extent legally required.

This press announcement is not an offer of securities for sale or a

solicitation of an offer to purchase securities in the United States or

elsewhere. The shares in Balda AG (the ‘Shares’) may not be offered or sold

in the United States or to or for the account or benefit of U.S. persons

(as such term is defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of

1933, as amended (the ‘Securities Act’)) unless registered under the

Securities Act or pursuant to an exemption from such registration. The

Shares have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act.

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Language: English

Company: Balda AG

Bergkirchener Str. 228

32549 Bad Oeynhausen

Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 57 34 / 9 22-0

Fax: +49 (0) 57 34 / 9 22-2604

E-mail: info@Balda.de

Internet: www.balda.de

ISIN: DE0005215107

WKN: 521510

Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr

in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover, München, Stuttgart

End of Announcement DGAP News-Service

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