On the Fast Track to Success: Delticom Increases Turnover to 56 Million Euros

HANNOVER, Germany, July 18 -- The European market leader in online tyre sales, Delticom AG, has been able to increase its turnover to 56 million Euros in the first half of 2005. During the same period in the previous year, the company had achieved 34 million Euro. With this, the percentage increase stands at 65%, raising the expected returns in the current year to 110 million Euros.

The B2B sector, with 10 million Euros in the first half year of 2005, is well positioned in the race, and the B2C business is on a fast track with 46 million Euros. On the whole, the B2C-Business has recorded a growth of 77%, and the B2B business was able to improve by 25%: both sectors taken in comparison with the first half of 2004.

This is how Andreas Prüfer, Director of Delticom, explains this continued success: "We offer our customers decisive advantages when they buy tyres and other products. Ease of ordering, which even a child could do, comfortable payments at highly competitive conditions, and easy modes of payment - these are things that more and more customers all over Europe are beginning to appreciate."

"Quick, uncomplicated delivery, and our one-time add-on service, with more than 5,600 installation partners across Europe, In the UK 586, where buyers can have their newly purchased tyres fitted, convinces even the most sceptical of the customers and all those who have not yet bought tyres over the Internet" adds Rainer Binder, also Director of Delticom AG.

Delticom AG is now expanding its presence to 47 online shops in 21 European countries (see also www.delti.com).