DGAP-Adhoc: KUKA Aktiengesellschaft: KUKA AG raises guidance for current financial year

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KUKA Aktiengesellschaft / Half Year Results/Change in Forecast

28.07.2010 11:16 

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KUKA Aktiengesellschaft

Zugspitzstrasse 140, 86165 Augsburg

- ISIN DE0006204407-

Listed on the following German stock exchanges:

Frankfurt, Berlin, Düsseldorf,

Hamburg, Hanover, Munich,

Stuttgart

Market segment: Prime Standard

Ad hoc disclosure pursuant to section 15 German Securities Trading Act
(Wertpapierhandelsgesetz)

KUKA AG raises guidance for current financial year

  - Significantly higher orders received and sales lead to strongly
    improved business results in Q2/10

  - 2010 sales should surpass EUR 1 billion threshold

  - EBIT between EUR 20 and 30 million before restructuring expenses
    expected

KUKA Group's preliminary results for the first half of 2010 were: orders
received of about EUR 548 million (H1/09: EUR 466.9 million), sales of
around EUR 480 million (H1/09: EUR 437.7 million) and a positive EBIT of
about EUR 5 million (H1/09: EUR -22.8 million). The Robotics division's
growth was particularly strong.

Based on the business development in the first half of 2010, the Group is
expecting to surpass the threshold of EUR 1 billion in sales in 2010
overall, provided general conditions remain stable. As a result, EBIT is
expected to come in at between EUR 20 and 30 million, although currently it
is estimated that restructuring expenses of about EUR 10 million will have
to be deducted from this result.

Further details about current business developments will be released in the
interim report for the first half of the 2010 financial year, to be
published on August 3, 2010.

Augsburg, July 28, 2010

KUKA Aktiengesellschaft

The Executive Board 



Contact:
Andreas Spitzauer
phone: +49 821 7975-216
fax: +49 821 7975-213 
e-mail: andreas.spitzauer@kuka.com




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Language:     English
Company:      KUKA Aktiengesellschaft
              Postfach 43 12 69
              86072 Augsburg
              Deutschland
Phone:        +49 (0)821 797 - 0
Fax:          +49 (0)821 7975 - 333
E-mail:       IR@kuka.com
Internet:     www.kuka.com
ISIN:         DE0006204407
WKN:          620440
Indices:      SDAX
Listed:       Regulierter Markt in Berlin, Frankfurt (Prime Standard),
              München, Hannover, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart; Foreign
              Exchange(s) SIX
 
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