The attendance on this year's Annual Shareholders Meeting at Pfeiffer Vacuum was up strongly by comparison with last year. Chairman of the Supervisory Board Dr. Michael Oltmanns was pleased to welcome over 400 shareholders, as well as representatives from shareholder associations and banks.
Chief Executive Officer Wolfgang Dondorf and Chief Financial Officer Manfred Bender reviewed the recordsetting 2006 fiscal year and offered up an outlook for the year 2007, which has gotten off to a highly successful start. Sales of EUR 195 to EUR 200 million were cited as the target for the full fiscal year, with an EBIT margin of at least 25 percent.
All questions from shareholder representatives and individual shareholders relating to individual numbers in the financial statements, markets and the competitive situation, the company's listing on the New York Stock Exchange, the stock buyback program, dividend policy and the planned expansion of the manufacturing facility at the Asslar location were answered in detail within the framework of the question and answer session.
