Tipp24 - Conversion into an SE completed
Jan 5, 2010 10:51 AM
Tipp24 SE / Miscellaneous 05.01.2010 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer / publisher is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tipp24 has been trading as Tipp24 SE, since 28 December 2009, the date on which the Hamburg registrar of companies registered the merger of Egela Beteiligungsverwaltungs AG and Tipp24 AG for the purpose of establishing a European Public Company (Societas Europaea, SE) as approved at this year's Annual General Meeting. The conversion to an SE underscores the development from a company primarily active in the German market to a holding company with a broad portfolio of investments in neighbouring European countries. The headquarters in Hamburg and the listing of Tipp24 stock in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange's Prime Standard market segment are not affected by the change in legal form. About Tipp24 SE: Tipp24 SE holds equity interests in a number of companies in Spain, Italy and the UK, which enable participation in lottery-based games via the Internet, especially via the websites www.ventura24.es, www.giochi24.it, www.mylotto24.co.uk and www.tipp24.com. In Germany, the subsidiary Tipp24 Entertainment GmbH operates the games platform www.tipp24games.de. Since its foundation, Tipp24 SE has brokered tickets worth over 1.5 billion euros to state lottery companies - in recent years over 330 million euros annually. Shares in Tipp24 SE have been traded at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2005. In June 2009, the company was admitted to the SDAX index. Tipp24 SE Andrea Fratini Head of Media and Public Relations Phone: +49 40 32 55 33-660 Fax: +49 40 32 55 33-5600 E-Mail: presse@tipp24.de Internet: www.tipp24.de/presse/ 05.01.2010 Ad hoc announcement, Financial News and Media Release distributed by DGAP. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: Tipp24 SE Straßenbahnring 11 20251 Hamburg Deutschland Phone: +49 (0)40 325533-0 Fax: +49 (0)40 325533-77 E-mail: office@tipp24.de Internet: www.tipp24-ag.de ISIN: DE0007847147 WKN: 784714 Indices: SDAX Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, München, Hamburg, Stuttgart End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------