LBI International AB - direct/ LBI International AB (publ.) (SE) - LBi acquires achievement business agency Iven & Hillman in Germany

Stockholm/Amsterdam, 19 December 2007 - LBI International AB ("LBi"), the arch all-embracing abounding account agenda agency, has acquired Iven & Hillmann GmbH & Co. KG and Iven & Hillmann Verwaltungs GmbH in Berlin, Germany ("I&H). I&H is one of the arch online business agencies in Germany, specializing in seek engine business (SEM) and accessory marketing.

LBi CEO Robert Pickering states, "I&H is a arch alternate business aggregation in Germany and strategically deepens our account alms geographically and in agenda seek accompanying services. We apprehend accelerated advance in the seek engine business acreage which is still awful fragmented. Furthermore, I&H´s activities will abutment us in alms our abject cavity audience abounding service".

Arend Lars Iven, CEO and one of the founders states, "We are aflame to be abutting LBi at a date if I&H is assertive for greater advance in Germany and abroad. LBi´s all-embracing footprint, portfolio of bunch audience and its ambitious ability are all factors for us to accompany the company".

I&H expects acquirement to beat EUR 11 actor for the abounding year 2007. The agency is amid in Berlin and has about 22 employees.

The absolute acquirement amount will be bent on an earn-out arrangement. LBi expects this accretion to be EBITDA and balance accretive with actual effect.

For added advice amuse contact:
Robert Pickering, CEO, LBI International AB
+31 20 460 45 00, robert.pickering@lbi.com
Eva Ottosson, Group Communications Manager, LBI International AB
+46 709 41 21 40, eva.ottosson@lbi.com
Arend Lars Iven, CEO, Iven & Hillmann GmbH & Co. KG
+49 30 200 89 29 0, iven@iven-hillmann.com
Ron Hillmann, CEO, Iven & Hillmann GmbH & Co. KG
+49 30 200 89 29 0, hillmann@iven-hillmann.com

About LBi:
LBi is the arch all-embracing abounding account agenda agency, application audience with business and technology solutions. The Company employs approx. 1,450 professionals amid primarily in the above European and American business centers, such as Amsterdam, Atlanta, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, London, Madrid, Milan, Mumbai, Munich, New York, Paris and Stockholm. Through interdisciplinary teams, LBi creates avant-garde multi-channel solutions for its civic and all-embracing accumulated audience by abnormally accumulation action development and artistic architecture with specific industry ability and latest agenda technology. LBi is listed on Euronext in Amsterdam as able-bodied as on the OMX Nordic Midcap articulation in Stockholm (symbol: LBI).

About I&H:
Iven & Hillmann is one of the arch online business agencies in Germany alms the abounding ambit of achievement based online business services. In adverse to a lot of of its German competitors, the Company has able bazaar positions in seek engine business (SEM) and accessory business accouterment it with a aggressive edge. In seek engine marketing, Iven & Hillmann focuses on sponsored listings and offers to called audience as able-bodied top end seek engine optimisation (SEO) advising services.

LBi acquires achievement business agency Iven & Hillman in Germany
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