XING AG - Strong acquirement advance for XING AG in Q3

Total revenues access by 32 percent to €33.2 million
- 29% new Premium associates in 12 months
- Rapid affiliate advance in all-embracing amount markets
- Boosted aggressive advantage – with over 3.6 actor members, XING is the largest, a lot of breath and fastest-growing business arrangement in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- New sources of acquirement accustomed in e-Recruiting

Hamburg, November 12, 2009 – XING AG (ISIN DE000XNG888) continues its advance of assisting growth. Total revenues amounted to €33.2 actor in the aboriginal nine months of 2009, up 32% from the aforementioned aeon endure year (€25.1 million). Q3 revenues aswell developed positively, up 27% from the antecedent year to €11.7 actor (Q3/2008: €9.18 million), and 8% over the endure division (Q2/2009: €10.79 million). As before, the connected advance of loyal Premium associates was the primary acquirement architect for the advertisement period. In Q3/2009, 662 thousand XING Premium associates generated a absolute of €9.96 actor in the “Subscriptions” segment. This represents an access of nine percent from endure quarter's after-effects (Q2/2009: €9.18 million), and a 34% access from endure year (Q3/2008: €7.42). Furthermore, the absolute amount of new associates who chose a two-year associates in the aboriginal nine months of 2009 tripled in allegory with the aforementioned aeon endure year.

As of September 30, 8.3 actor professionals were associates of the arch European business network. Alongside the connected amplification of its bazaar administration in the home markets of Germany, Austria and Switzerland with about 3.6 actor members, XING aswell added additional its all-embracing affiliate growth, decidedly in Turkey and Spain. The Company appear its arch annual after-effects to date in these countries, accepting bazaar allotment from its competitors.

Despite the connected all-embracing abrogating bazaar development for job ads, the XING Jobs area showed absolute developments. In the aboriginal nine months of 2009, revenues were added by 15% over the aforementioned aeon endure year, to €3.27 (€2.85 actor in the aboriginal nine months of 2008).

"We've invested heavily in accretion our assisting business models, and are annoyed with the development of Q3. As before, our amount business drives our growth. Furthermore, we accept appreciably bigger our account for targeted recruiting searches. By accomplishing so, we're accession XING as the ideal band-aid for able e-Recruiting, and borer into added sources of revenues for connected assisting growth," explained Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG.

The EBITDA allowance was added over the endure quarter, from 23% to 25%. Operating six-month EBITDA aswell bigger slightly, from €8.7 actor in 2008 to €8.8 in 2009. In the aboriginal three abode of the year, XING AG invested heavily in the amplification of its own development resources, to be able to barrage new business models, articles and appearance even added rapidly in the future, and appropriately tap into new sources of accumulation added quickly. As expected, the accumulative accumulation profits for the aboriginal nine months of 2009 were lower than those for the aforementioned aeon endure year (€2.5 actor for 2009 vs. €4.7 actor for 2008), due to these investment costs and the appointment of €1 actor in one-off tax affluence for Q3. The development of banknote breeze was appreciably added positive. After advocacy its aqueous assets by €1.6 actor in Q3/2008, XING AG added its banknote and banknote equivalents by €2.7 actor in Q3/2009, to a absolute of €38.6 million.

About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over 8 actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 30 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members. Since the 2006 IPO, the XING AG allotment has accustomed a solid position for itself on the banal market, the aboriginal and to date alone Web 2.0 aggregation to do so. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices based in its key cardinal advance markets.
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Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany

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