ePrint Factory Selected as one of the Fastest Growing Technology Company on the 2006 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA

Attributes its 472,45 % Revenue Growth to the Innovation and Proven Success of its Campaigns.

Deloitte today announced that the ePrint Factory is awarded in the 2006 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa. ePrint Factory is enabling Fortune 500 companies to get in touch with their consumers by sending personalised advertisement cards. These are ordered by consumers over the Internet and then sent as real paper postcards by mail. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years, from 2001–2005. ePrint Factory grew 472,45 % during this period.

ePrint Factory’s CEO, Roman Bach, credits “the innovative marketing idea and the proven successes of its campaigns with the company growing 5 times bigger over the past years”. He says, "We are very proud of this award because it shows that one can build a profitable company from a great idea."

“Making the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA ranking is a testament to a company’s commitment to technology,” said Eric Morgain, partner in charge of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 EMEA program. "We congratulate ePrint Factory on being one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa."

In addition to ranking on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, ePrint Factory ranked 29 on the Technology Fast 50, which is a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Germany.

Fast 500 Selection and Qualifications
The Technology Fast 500 list is compiled from Deloitte’s EMEA Fast 50 programs, nominations submitted directly to the Fast 500, and public company database research. To qualify for the Fast 500, entrants must have had 2001 operating revenues of at least €50,000 and 2005 operating revenues of at least €800,000.
Entrants must also be public or private companies headquartered in EMEA and must be a “technology company,” defined as a company that owns proprietary technology that contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues; or devotes a significant proportion of revenues to the research and development of technology. Using other companies' technology in a unique way does not qualify.

PR Contact:
Roman Bach
+49 (0) 40 88 88 28 83
bach@e-printfactory.com

ePrint Factory GmbH
Ludwig-Erhard Str. 37
20459 Hamburg
Germany
+49 (0) 40 88 88 28 0
info@e-printfactory.de
www.e-printfactory.com

About the ePrint Factory:
ePrint Factory is a direct marketing service provider which is specialized in the personalised web to print media. It numbers among its regular clients well-known firms such as Adidas, Boss, Clarins, Globetrotter, Lancaster, Marc O` Polo, McDonald’s, Procter & Gamble, SEAT and Unilever.

The most renown products of the ePrint Factory are the so called ePrint Cards. These are real postcards that interested Internet users can order on the client’s website and send to friends with a personal message for free. This marketing tool enables an almost spreading loss free and exactly measurable expansion of the advertising message inside the target group. The advertisers use postcards from the Internet particularly for recommendation campaigns. Thanks to this consumers can spread the advertisement with personal greetings.

The ePrint Factory was founded in 1999 and employs today 15 persons. The managing director and associate is the former Gruner & Jahr manager Roman Bach who holds 52,5% of the firm shares. The second shareholder is the Hamburger venture capital company Dr. Neuhaus Techno Nord. As first direct marketing service provider in Germany, ePrint Factory fulfils the information security management standard BS 7799-2:2002 and is also certified ISO-27001:2005. The firm also fulfils the requirements of the security management which will be put into practice in the context of the Sarbanes Oxley Acts (SOX) and an accounting with SAS70.

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