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    06.02.08
    Business Media China and Skyflying Media establish a joint venture

     

    Ad hoc announcement

    Business Media China and Skyflying Media establish a joint venture to
    create the leading Outdoor Advertising Company in China

    Beijing/Guangzhou, February 6, 2008 - BMC Advertising Co. Ltd., a 100 %
    subsidiary of Business Media China AG, Stuttgart (WKN: 525040) and
    Skyflying International Media Co. Ltd., Guangzhou (Skyflying Media) have
    signed an agreement to create China's largest outdoor media advertising
    company with a large portfolio of airport, railway and subway media
    formats. BMC will hold 51 % of the joint venture company.

    The joint venture will become operational as of April 1, 2008. The combined
    arketing of the various media formats from both companies will begin step by
    step, starting with railway followed by airport, metro and other outdoor
    dvertising media.

    With combined expected 2008 outdoor advertising sales of EUR 140 - 150
    million, Business Media China AG and Skyflying Group are jointly the clear
    leader in the Chinese outdoor advertising market.

    Business Media China will provide a detailed presentation of the joint
    venture including a revised outlook and guidance at a media and analyst
    conference mid of April in Frankfurt.

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    Information and Explaination of the Issuer to this News:

    Skyflying Media www.skyflyinggroup.com, in China known under Guangzhou
    Baiyun Tianjun International Media Co., Ltd., is the leading Outdoor
    Advertising Company in the South of China and has the advertising rights
    for the media sites at the airports of Guangzhou and Shenzhen and the
    exclusive media rights for the railway stations and the subway stations of
    Guangzhou (capital of the Guangdong province) and Shenzhen (China's most
    industrialised city with the highest per-capita income after Hong Kong).
    Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is China's third largest airport
    after Beijing and Shanghai Pudong. Shenzhen Baoan International Airport is
    the number five airport after Beijing, the two Shanghai airports and
    Guangzhou.

    Like BMC Flying Dragon, Skyflying Media was a successful bidder in the
    application process for Beijing's new Terminal 3 and gained an important
    group of advertising sites. Skyflying Media has already been operating a
    large number of sites in Terminal 2 of the airport for a long time.
    Furthermore Skyflying Media provides street billboards, neon lights,
    digital displays, giant banners and other Outdoor Media Formats in the
    cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Its annual revenues in 2007 were well
    over CNY 500 million (EUR 50 million). This will shoot united BMC and
    Skyflying Media into the leading position in China?s outdoor advertising
    media market.

    Klaus Michael Hilligardt, CEO Business Media China explained: 'Skyflying
    Media is our ideal partner for the railway media roll-out and development
    of the prime media formats. Both companies - BMC with its power in the
    Beijing region and Skyflying Media with its strong position in Guangzhou
    and Shenzhen - can now go for the hubs in Shanghai and Chengdu/Chongqing
    and together we can enter into new license agreements that fit to our
    all-China strategy. The united sales force will have the possibility to
    access the existing client contacts of both companies and to address
    combined offers for all relevant kinds of outdoor media to clients and
    prospects. We expect an impressive rise of the turnover from this joint
    venture.' Zhang Xiao Tian, CEO of Skyflying Media added: 'BMC has brought a
    lot of innovation and international professionalism to the outdoor
    advertising market in China. To jointly profit from the economies of scale
    and the abilities to further develop our fast growing market are unique
    opportunities for us'.

    The media portfolios of both companies complement one another perfectly. In
    railway media both companies form Chinas largest railway network by far. In
    airport media the companies cover 12 airports and finally the subway media
    and other outdoor media are ideal additions.

    Business Media China AG with its Chinese subsidiary companies BMC
    Advertising and BMC Flying Dragon is already one of the leading and most
    respected Chinese outdoor media companies today. BMC Advertising with long
    term license agreements for the Central and West railway stations of
    Beijing and the stations in Tianjin and Shijiazhuang has changed the market
    for railway media by renewing the media formats, introducing qualified
    media research studies and inventing completely new media spaces. Recent
    awards like the 'Most important contribution to new media formats in 2006'
    by China Advertising and a First Place Mobius Award for the Mengniu Roof
    Campaign in Beijing show the importance that BMC Advertising has gained in
    the Chinese media business. In the field of airport media BMC Flying Dragon
    is able to provide media sites at nearly all of China's leading airports.
    The winning of two advertising sectors in Terminal 3 of the Beijing Capital
    International Airport and its successful sales of media formats to clients
    like Ferrari, Samsung and other top brands show BMC's ability of strong
    domestic license purchase and powerful international sales.

    The process of concentration which had already taken place in many
    international outdoor markets now also occurs in China. With this joint
    venture in which Business Media China holds the majority, BMC is again
    leading and advancing an important development in the Chinese outdoor
    market.