Fujitsu Siemens Computers achieves highest recorded revenue and profit before tax in company history

This is the highest recorded revenue in the company's five-year history.

President and CEO Bernd Bischoff announced that the company achieved €6.018* billion in revenue, an increase of 14* percent over the previous fiscal year. Profit before tax (PBT) also reached an all time high at €95* million, an improvement of 53* percent or €33* million over the previous fiscal year.

In the second half of fiscal year 2004, the company recorded a revenue increase of 13* percent with €3.45* billion in revenue and a profit before tax of €74* million, which is €24* million or 48* percent better than the previous year.

"As a company we set some high goals, and we are proud to have reached them," said Bischoff, President and CEO, Fujitsu Siemens Computers. "This is a great achievement and I would like to congratulate our 7,000 employees on this collective success."

"The financial results reflect the dynamism and commitment that drive Fujitsu Siemens Computers worldwide," said Sheila Bibi, Marketing & Communications Director, International Sales Region (ISR), Fujitsu Siemens Computers. "In the Middle East and Africa, revenue grew by 34* per cent, a significant achievement in a market that is highly competitive and challenging. The region, is currenlty the second fastest growing market for Fujitsu Siemens Computers after Eastern Europe. We are now poised to consolidate our position further in the region in the next fiscal year."

The company will continue to build resources to help customers innovate through its focus on two key strategic areas: Mobility and Business Critical Computing (BCC). For the fiscal year 2005, which runs from 1 April 2005 through 31 March 2006, Fujitsu Siemens Computers will continue to target a 5 percent revenue growth ahead of the market (at current exchange rates). The company's primary growth areas are defined as: Products and solutions that comprise the Dynamic Data Center including servers and storage as well as supporting services, desktops which already beat the strict EU standards for recyclability and mobility products to enable the mobile workforce.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers recently announced two major steps in making the fiscal year 2005 the year of the Dynamic Data Center. On April 5, 2005 the company unveiled the new PRIMEQUEST™ server line based on the Intel® Itanium® 2 processor. The PRIMEQUEST server line combines data center class fault immunity and high system scalability for industry standard environments running Linux and Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based systems. This makes it an ideal choice for organizations wishing to realize the economic benefits and flexibility of industry standard solutions without compromising their business continuity.

The company has also announced that EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage and management, will offer CentricStor from Fujitsu Siemens Computers throughout Europe as part of the EMC Select program beginning in May. The agreement gives customers with large data centers the ability to conveniently acquire best-in-class technology to more effectively and efficiently backup their data to tape.