Bastei Lübbe AG: Repayment of the 2011/16 corporate bond concluded on schedule

Bastei Lübbe AG: Repayment of the 2011/16 corporate bond
concluded on schedule

Cologne, 27 October 2016. Bastei Lübbe AG (ISIN DE000A1X3YY0), which is listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, repaid the 2011/2016 corporate bond (ISIN DE000A1K0169) on schedule on 26 October 2016. The bond issued in October 2011 had an interest coupon of 6.75 % per year and a total nominal value of EUR 30 million. This total nominal value plus a final interest payment of EUR 2.025 million was transferred to the creditors on the due date.

To repay the bond, Bastei Lübbe AG had already concluded a syndicated loan agreement with a total volume of EUR 33 million with a renowned banking syndicate in October 2015, which has since been topped up to EUR 53 million as a result of the acquisition of BuchPartner GmbH and the publishing label LYX and in order to pre-finance book titles from renowned authors.

Despite the higher level of financing, from the 2017/2018 financial year the new financing structure will result in considerable annual interest savings for Bastei Lübbe AG. On a comparative basis of the former bond, there is an interest saving of over EUR 1 million.

About Bastei Lübbe AG:
Bastei Lübbe AG is an international media group based in Cologne. Its business operations focus on developing and licensing content distributed worldwide physically and digitally. The company's core business includes the traditional publishing business and the periodical puzzle magazines and novel booklets in the "Book" segment. With its twelve publishers and imprints, the group of companies currently offers approximately 3,600 titles in fiction, non-fiction and books for children and young adults. In the growing segment of hardcover fiction, the company has been the market leader in Germany for many years. At the same time, Bastei Lübbe is driving innovation in the field of digital media. As well as the production of thousands of audio and e-books, the "Digital" segment also includes holdings in the self-publishing platform "BookRix" and the renowned games publisher "Daedalic Entertainment". Bastei Lübbe AG's value chain is completed by the investment in the online shop "beam-ebooks.de" and the new and internationally unique streaming platform "oolipo".
With currently 413 employees and an annual turnover of roughly EUR 104.9 million (financial year 2015/2016), Bastei Lübbe AG is the largest medium-sized family company in the German publishing industry. Since 2013, the company's shares have been listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (WKN A1X3YY, ISIN DE000A1X3YY0). Further information is available at www.luebbe.de.

Contact Bastei Lübbe AG:
Barbara Fischer
Director / Vice President
Public Relations
Tel.: +49 (0) 221 / 82 00 28 50
E-mail: barbara.fischer@luebbe.de