Eckert & Ziegler to Recommend Dividend Payment

(Ad hoc-Mitteilung)

Berlin, 25.03.2009. The Executive Board and the Supervisory Board of Eckert & Ziegler (ISIN DE0005659700) have decided on yesterday's Supervisory Board meeting to recommend a dividend payment of 0.30 EUR per share (previous year: 0.25 EUR per share) to the shareholder meeting on 13 May 2009. With about 3.7 mm shares participating (including 0.6 mm new shares resulting from the private placement in February, but excluding 0.1 mm treasury shares), the dividend amounts to about a quarter of the 2008 group profit of 4.5 mm EUR. Further details will be published at the annual press conference on 27 March 2009 in Berlin.

The Board of Directors