Two-Thirds Of ATX companies On Roadshow To London And Edinburgh With Wiener Börse

This week on Wednesday and Thursday, some two-thirds of the companies listed in the ATX are taking part in a roadshow with Wiener Börse in London and Edinburgh. The kick-off of the two-day investor conference is on Wednesday, 28 September 2005, in cooperation with the investor conference organized by Bank Austria Creditanstalt in London at which 18 companies - 12 of them ATX companies – will present themselves to institutional investors in London. The interest of UK investors in Austrian blue chips is enormous: Around 40 representatives of London investment firms are taking advantage of this opportunity to gain valuable insights and information for future investment decisions in over 115 intense one-on-one talks with the top management of the participating companies.

"We are very pleased that so many companies and investors have accepted our invitation to the London roadshow. Our customers in England appreciate Vienna as a highly developed capital market. Their search for attractive small caps has been rewarded by success in Austria, and this has helped sustain the excellent development of Wiener Börse", said Wilhelm Hemetsberger, member of the Management Board of Bank Austria Creditanstalt.

Most companies are flying on Wednesday evening to the next roadshow in Edinburgh organized jointly by Wiener Börse and Raiffeisen Centrobank (RCB), which is taking place for the second time this year. The management boards of 17 Austrian leading companies – 12 of which are ATX companies – will endeavor to interest institutional investors in an investment in their companies. "The great interest of institutional investors is shown by the almost 100 investor meetings scheduled with the participating companies. Investors cannot – and do not want to – miss the opportunity to take part in the excellent development of Austrian companies", said Michael Spiss, member of the Management Board of Raiffeisen Centrobank.

The roadshows are organized within the scope of the capital market initiative to mobilize international institutional investors. By the end of the year, eight conferences at international financial centers will have been held in cooperation with banks attended by some 250 investors at group presentations and 450 one-on-one talks.