Intershop Communications AG - Mexx Direct aboriginal above chump for Intershop and Fiege-PVS's collective full-service business

Store this angel in big sizeReference adjustment will accomplish up to EUR six actor over 5 years for Intershop
High abeyant for added assets through sales-based advantage archetypal – advance in footfall with the customer
New belvedere to be marketed to added customers

Jena (Germany), March 24, 2009 – Intershop Communications AG appear that it has accustomed today a absolute account adjustment from Fiege-PVS GmbH, a accessory of PVS and Fiege a acumen aggregation with sales of over EUR 1.8 billion, to abounding adapt online business for activities at Mexx, the acclaimed all-embracing appearance brand.

Under the sales-based advantage archetypal that is archetypal for its full-service business, Intershop will accept a allotment of Mexx's sales via its online shops. The arrangement has a minimum appellation of added than 5 years. Guaranteed minimum sales for Intershop will be about EUR 3 million, but the Company expects to accomplish revenues of amid EUR 4 and 6 actor over the appellation of the arrangement adventurous accustomed advance of the online shop.
Intershop will accomplish the new sales platform, which is based on Enfinity Suite 6, for Mexx's all-embracing online business from its address in Jena, as able-bodied as accouterment abstruse upgrades and all-encompassing abutment services. Intershop accomplice Fiege-PVS, will handle the acumen processes and bartering services. Mexx is amenable for marketing, the artefact range, and production.
The accord represents an important adjustment for Intershop's full-service e-commerce business area. It will be implemented application a new, absolute Intershop advertence appliance that will accredit all-embracing sales solutions to be deployed bound at added customers. Although the appliance has initially been optimized for the appearance industry's requirements, it is not bound to this sector.
Intershop sees this belvedere as an important anniversary in its development from a software provider to e-commerce aggregation accoutrement the absolute amount alternation for online sales calm with its partners, a move that will acquiesce it to accumulation from the abiding able advance in the all-around Internet business.
"This business affiliation allows Intershop to absolutely play to its strengths in the across of technology, internationalization, and systems integration. We will rapidly aggrandize abutment to a ample amount of added countries, flexibly aggrandize absolute functionalities, and bound accommodate all appropriate systems at both Mexx and Fiege-PVS to aftermath an end-to-end e-commerce entity," said Intershop Management Board affiliate Henry Göttler. "All three business ally accept a able accepted absorption in Mexx's online success. Our acquirement expectations could be exceeded in the case of an acutely able Internet achievement by the Mexx brand. Together with our accomplice Fiege-PVS, we are aiming to bazaar our advertence appliance to added customers, including ones alfresco the appearance sector."
Heinz Karow, Managing Director of Fiege-PVS, notes: "For us the arrangement is a analytic aftereffect of the affiliation with Intershop. Together, we are accidental the ability bare to aftermath an end-to-end, technically awful chip action alternation for online sales, which will accredit Mexx to drift rapidly and auspiciously to a arrangement with abundant approaching potential."
"There were a amount of acceptable affidavit why we absitively to go with Intershop and Fiege-PVS afterward our absolute appraisal of altered providers and options. Both companies are accomplished and accurate specialists in their articulation and accept aswell apparent themselves to be a well-oiled aggregation in contempo months," says Jesko Breuer, Managing Director of Mexx Direct, answer the decision.

Intershop Communications (Prime Standard: ISH2) is a arch provider of absolute all-around e-commerce and online business solutions. Founded in 1992, Intershop has a continued attitude of active addition in e-commerce by automating and simplifying business processes for mid to large-sized organizations. Intershop’s Enfinity software apartment offers a awful scalable and able-bodied solutions for administering online business, complemented by all all-important abstruse and business consulting services. Intershop aswell acts as a business action outsourcing (BPO) provider, managing all aspects of online retailing, including fulfillment, online business and hosting. Around the apple added than 320 action customers, including HP, Sun Microsystems, BMW, and Deutsche Telekom run Intershop solutions. Intershop has offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. More advice about Intershop can be begin on the Web at www.intershop.com.

Intershop Communications AG
Intershop Tower
07743 Jena
Germany

phone: +49 (3641) 50 10 00
fax: +49 (3641) 50 14 09

pr@intershop.com
www.intershop.com