Ad hoc: R. STAHL AG: R. STAHL announces key data on the first nine months of 2008

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Sales and earnings are up - Guidance for the year confirmed thanks to
stable business environment

Waldenburg, 21 October 2008 - The explosion protection specialist,
R. STAHL Group, registered a 9.6% sales increase to EUR 168.3 million
(previous year: EUR 153.5 million) in the period from January to
September 2008.

At EUR 166.4 million, order intake in the first three quarters
remained about unchanged year-on-year (previous year:
EUR 166.6 million).

According to preliminary calculations, R. STAHL's pre-tax earnings
(EBT) rose to EUR 18.1 million after EUR 17.8 million including
EUR 1.5 million in non-recurrent profits from the IT divestment the
year before. Adjusted for the non-recurrent-profit effect, EBT
increased 11.0% year-on-year. The pre-tax return on sales reached
10.8% after 10.6% in the comparable period last year.

Although the German Engineering Federation (Verband Deutscher
Maschinen- und Anlagenbau, VDMA) expects major plant construction
business to slow down, it still sees further growth for 2009, albeit
at a lower level. R. STAHL's management agrees with that assessment
confirming its guidance for fiscal 2008 as a whole despite recently
weaker business activity. The 2008 guidance thus remains at
consolidated sales of EUR 220 to 230 million after EUR 211.6 million
in 2007. Pre-tax earnings are to reach 10% of sales revenue and
earnings per share are to rise again. However, this guidance
presupposes that the global financial crisis will not escalate and
that the economy in general will not deteriorate further.

R. STAHL will publish its detailed report on the first nine months of
this year on 11 November 2008.

Contact:
R. STAHL AG
Communication / Investor Relations
Judith Schäuble
Am Bahnhof 30, D-74638 Waldenburg, Germany
Phone: +49 (7942) 943-1217, Fax: +49 (7942) 943-1364
e-mail: judith.schaeuble@stahl.de

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