Unterföhring/Munich, 13 May 2019 – KPS AG (WKN: A1A6V4 / ISIN: DE000A1A6V48), Europe’s leading management consultant for business transformation and process optimization, increased its sales by 3.3 % in the first half-year of 2018/2019 by comparison with the first half-year of 2017/2018 from 88.4 million euros to 91.2 million euros. The operating result before interest, tax, and amortization and depreciation (EBITDA) rose by 41.3 % to 13.2 million euros compared with 9.4 million euros in the equivalent year-earlier period.

Munich, May 08, 2019. Every year, business magazine brand eins and statistics portal Statista identify the best consulting firms in Germany in a survey involving more than 3,500 consultants and customers. For the sixth year in a row, KPS has been named Best Consultancy. KPS came top of the brand eins ranking in its core industries Consumer Goods and Retail as well as consulting categories IT Strategy and IT Implementation. And this year, the company was additionally named best consultancy for Internet & E-Commerce.

Dortmund, April 25, 2019. What makes a good app? A user-friendly design! In other words, an app that is straightforward and intuitive to use, focuses on only the essential features, supports the user and simplifies complicated processes. The service app ‘Meine innogy’ offers all of this and has just, for the third year in succession, been voted ‘Most customer-friendly app 2019’ by FOCUS MONEY in the energy provider category. The app was developed by KPS, which was responsible for usability, in close cooperation with innogy.

Munich, April 11, 2019. Enterprises are under enormous pressure to innovate, and demand for digital transformation is growing. But many businesses are still having difficulties executing the transformation in practice. These are the core findings of the recently published survey conducted by Lünendonk in collaboration with KPS, a customer experience specialist and consulting company. The survey identifies current digital transformation trends and helps businesses and providers to respond to developments and evolving (customer) requirements, and to adapt their processes and structures accordingly.

Copenhagen, April 09, 2019. One of the largest SAP Transformation programs in the Nordics is happening at the moment at Coop in Albertslund, Denmark. With an all new retail platform on SAP S/4HANA, Coop Denmark is transforming its business processes and modernizing its IT systems. The partner responsible for the transformation of the processes and IT implementation is KPS, the IT & management consultancy has previously transformed Salling Group onto an SAP platform.

Unterföhring/Munich, 29 March 2019 – KPS AG (WKN: A1A6V4 / ISIN: DE000A1A6V48), Europe’s leading management consultant for business transformation and process optimization, held its Annual General Meeting for 2019 in Munich on 29 March 2019. 65.14 % of the capital stock were present at the Annual General Meeting. During the course of the Annual General Meeting, the Executive Board reported on the operational development of the past business year 2017/2018 and the first quarter of 2018/2019. At the same time, the Executive Board provided an outlook for the ongoing strategy and the current business year 2018/2019.

Unterföhring/Munich, 15 February 2019 – KPS AG (WKN: A1A6V4 / ISIN: DE000A1A6V48), Europe’s leading management consultant for business transfor-mation and process optimization, succeeded in increasing its sales by 16.5 % com-pared with the year-earlier quarter from 38.1 million euros to 44.4 million euros for the first quarter of 2018/2019. Earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation and amorti-zation (EBITDA) doubled to 6.6 million euros after 3.3 million euros in the equivalent year-earlier quarter. This corresponds to an EBITDA margin of 14.9% (Q1 2017/2018: 8.7%). Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) improved to 5.8 million euros after 3.1 million euros in the first quarter of 2017/2018. The EBIT margin was therefore 13.1% (Q1 2017/2018: 8.1%).

Munich, January 31, 2019. Driven by rising customer expectations and new technologies, digitization in the retail sector is gathering momentum and developing apace. To demonstrate how digital AI assistants, location-based services, and omnichannel solutions are shaping the retail sector of tomorrow, KPS, a leading consulting partner for digital transformation, is appearing at the EuroCIS 2019 in Dusseldorf (Hall 10, Booth B42).

Unterföhring/Munich, 29 January 2019 – KPS AG (WKN: A1A6V4 / ISIN: DE000A1A6V48), Europe’s leading management consultant for business transformation and process optimization, today publishes its Annual Report 2017/2018, and information about the forecast for 2018/2019. On the basis of the audited results for the business year 2017/2018, Group sales rose by 7.4 % to 172.2 million euros (previous year: 160.3 million euros). Owing to company acquisitions as part of the growth strategy and the associated increased personnel expenses, Group EBITDA at 20.0 million euros was around 24.3 % less than in the previous year. EBIT came down as a result of M&A-related depreciation and amortization to 16.6 million euros (previous year: 24.8 million euros).

Unterföhring/Munich, December 20, 2018 – KPS AG (WKN: A1A6V4 / ISIN: DE000A1A6V48), Europe’s leading management consultancy for business transformation and process optimization published its preliminary, unaudited IFRS financial figures today for fiscal year 2017/18. Sales in the past fiscal year continued to rise in line with the forecast. Despite the negative impact of the company acquisitions and their integration into the Group structure, the EBIT forecast was also achieved.