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Strong 2008 First Half Results for Basler Components
POSTED 08/25/2008
Ahrensburg, 21 August 2008 – Basler Vision Technologies has released its financial report for the first half of 2008. As in previous years, the Basler Components business unit showed very positive development. Turnover increased by 12% to EUR 14.9 million. Incoming orders reached EUR 17.4 million, which represents a growth of 20% compared to the same period last year. For the first half of the year, the segment’s earnings before interest and taxes remained at the previous year's level of EUR 2.0 million. The components business remains a growth driver within the Basler Group.
Basler is one of the leading manufacturers of industrial cameras and has set an optimum course for future growth. Again this year, Basler introduced many new and technically innovative camera models, which extended our product portfolio and were very positively received in the marketplace. Moreover, Basler entered the IP camera market in May 2008 and introduced an innovative IP camera series for surveillance applications.
At the group level, Basler ended the first half of 2008 with EUR 27.2 million in turnover (1st half 2007: EUR 24.4 million). The group's earnings before taxes amounted to EUR 1.6 million (1st half 2007: EUR 0.2 million).
Basler Components designs and manufactures digital cameras for industrial, medical, and traffic system applications, and also for the video surveillance market. Products include color and monochrome line scan, area scan, and intelligent cameras as well as innovative and flexible IP cameras. Basler has more than 20 years of experience in image processing. We have designed and manufactured high quality digital cameras for over 10 years. Product designs are driven by industry requirements and offer easy interfacing, compact size, and a strong price/performance ratio.
For more information, please contact us at +49 4102 463-500, e-mail us at [email protected], or visit us on the web at: http://www.baslerweb.com.
Press contact:
Eva Tischendorf – Basler Components
Tel. +49 4102 - 463 258
Fax: +49 4102 - 463 599
Basler AG
An der Strusbek 60 – 62
22926 Ahrensburg
Germany
www.baslerweb.com