Key Figures of the voestalpine Group

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• voestalpine Group key figures in the online annual report

Shareholder Structure of voestalpine AG (Status: May 2008, indicative): Please follow the link for more information on Investor Relations on the voestalpine web site.

Revenue by Industry (Financial year 2007/08; as percentage of Group revenue)

Revenue by Region (Financial year 2007/08; as percentage of Group revenue)

Revenue by Division (Financial year 2007/08; as percentage of Group revenue)

Figure: Development of environmental expenditures since 2001

The voestalpine Group made environment related investments of approximately 61 million euros in Austria alone in the financial year 2007/08. This increase of around one third over the previous year (47 million euros) was due both to the fact that the figures include the Austrian BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM locations for the first time and to major projects that were undertaken, primarily in the Steel and Railway Systems divisions.

For the same reasons, current expenses for operation and maintenance of environmental protection systems reached a new high of approximately 206 million euros for the Austrian production companies in the voestalpine Group alone. This was approximately 9% higher than the previous year.

Figure: Development of R&D Expenses

The voestalpine Group incurred research and development expenses of 93 million in financial year 2007/08. The increase over the previous year (66 million euros) was primarily due to the integration of the BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Group (Special Steel Division), which reported R&D expenses of approximately 21 million euros for the period from 1 July 2007 to 31 March 2008. However, the considerable increase also reflects the steady increase in research and development funding by the voestalpine Group over many years.

The research ratio (R&D expenses divided by total sales) was just under 1% in the year under review, which – despite the disproportionate growth in sales – remained unchanged versus the previous year, just as the ratio of R&D expenses to economic value added remained at the previous year’s level of 2.2%. A total of around 570 employees work on research and development throughout the Group.

The voestalpine Group had 41,490 employees worldwide as of 31 March 2008 (not including apprentices). This corresponds to an increase of 16,877 employees (or nearly 69%) over the previous year (24,613), mainly due to the initial consolidation of the BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Group (Special Steel Division, 15,453 employees). The additional increase of around 1,400 employees in the other four divisions versus the previous year was due to consolidated acquisitions in the Profilform and Automotive divisions as well as additional personnel related to investment and organic growth in the Steel and Railway Systems divisions.

More than half of Group employees outside of Austria

Except for the Steel Division, all of the previous divisions already had the majority of their employees outside of Austria in the year under review. The integration of BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM represented a further step forward in the internationalization of the Group, with a majority of employees at the Group level, namely 21,979 employees or 53%, now employed in Group locations outside of Austria, versus 19,511 or 47% at Austrian locations. In comparison, 60% of the Group’s employees were employed in Austria and 40% at international locations in the financial year 2006/07.

Further expansion of apprentice training at national and international locations

The voestalpine Group was training 1,411 apprentices throughout the Group at the end of financial year 2007/08, a third of these (460) at international locations and 951 young apprentices in Austria. The increase of 60% over the total of 881 apprentices in the previous year was primarily due to consolidation of the Special Steel Division (437 apprentices) and a further expansion of apprentice training, mainly at the Austrian locations in Linz, Kapfenberg, Krems and Traisen.

Training of female apprentices also increased throughout the voestalpine Group, rising from 162 to 186 in the year under review. Around half of these female apprentices are being trained in technical professions.