Ad hoc: Koenig & Bauer AG: Koenig & Bauer AG: President and CEO Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann hands finances to Helge Hansen

Koenig & Bauer AG / Board of directors / Ad hoc: Koenig & Bauer AG:
President and CEO Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann hands
finances to Helge Hansen

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With the approval of the supervisory board, on 6 February 2009
Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann (56), president and CEO of German press
manufacturer Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA), will hand his financial remit
to Helge Hansen (61), a respected banker and business economist.
Hansen, who was appointed managing director of Metronic AG (now
KBA-Metronic) in July 2003, successfully restructured the company
following its acquisition by KBA in 2004.

Along with the rest of the press engineering industry and most
exporters, KBA has experienced a collapse in sales over the past year
in the wake of the global financial and economic meltdown. The
appointment of a new executive vice-president for finances (CFO) to
this SDAX-listed company - the world's first and oldest press
manufacturer - is a response to the mounting challenges posed by risk
management, financial dealings with banks, and customer financing.

When Bolza-Schünemann was appointed president and CEO of KBA in June
2003, finances were added to his existing responsibilities of product
development and human resources at KBA's sheetfed operation in
Radebeul, near Dresden. The transfer of his financial remit will give
him more time to focus on the long-term strategic realignment of the
entire KBA group in the international marketplace. This will entail a
consolidation of the sheetfed division, which has been particularly
hard hit by the global crisis.

Helge Hansen, KBA's new CFO, is well qualified for his new position,
having spent his entire career in finance. After taking his
school-leaving certificate Hansen completed an apprenticeship at
Commerzbank in his home city of Hamburg. In 1971 he graduated from
the University of Hamburg with a degree in business economics. There
followed a year expanding his knowledge of international finance on
secondment to law firms in London. On his return to Commerzbank
Hansen handled export financing as head of department from 1972 to
1980. In 1980 he moved into industry, gaining valuable experience as
director of finances and accounting at the Salzgitter group and as
managing director of two affiliated companies. From 1988 to 1999 he
headed the Feinfocus group, a mid-cap start-up with a number of
domestic and foreign plants producing non-destructive radiography
testing equipment. Hansen first came into contact with KBA in June
2003, when he was appointed managing director of what was later to
become KBA-Metronic. Prior to that, at the request of the lending
banks he had successfully turned around a number of stricken
businesses in the print media, construction and service sectors.

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