AGO AG adding social media to communications

• More proactive use of Web 2.0
• Optimising shareholder and journalist contact management
• AGO on facebook, twitter and Xing
• Long-term and trusting relations to stakeholders

Kulmbach, 22 January 2010: AGO AG Energie + Anlagen: (cusip number: A0LR41; ISIN: DE000A0LR415) has enhanced its distribution channels for publishing corporate news by adding social media. This makes AGO AG one of the first publicly listed companies in the Entry Standard of Frankfurt Stock Exchange to efficiently and proactively enhance its investor and public relations communications based on the ideological and technological principles of Web 2.0.

AGO AG Energie + Anlagen sees itself as an industry pioneer. “I am not aware of any immediate competitor who is as actively engaged in communications as we are. Our objective is to take a fresh approach with AGO. This highlights our spirit of innovation, which we have cultivated ever since the company was founded 30 years ago,” explains Hans Ulrich Gruber, CEO of AGO AG Energie + Anlagen. “When it comes to efficient and active corporate communications, social media is a good opportunity to intensify open dialog with private and institutional investors, address customers while at the same time making new contacts and getting the opinions of others,” explained Gruber.

Parties interested in AGO AG can follow the company on twitter (at https://twitter.com/ago_ag), sign up as a fan on facebook and get information on Xing. Now press information can also be read and used in the leading social networks. With this step, AGO AG is now also ensuring it will have an even larger audience for corporate news released in text, pictures, audio or video.

AGO AG views communications via social media as a complement to conventional investor and public relations communications activities. All company relevant information will continue to be published on the company website at www.ago.ag. “We are committed to making our company more transparent. By providing reliable information on a continuous basis, we aim to establish long-standing and trusting relationships to relevant target groups. We are now making use of the communications channels Web 2.0 has to offer. Interested parties can use facebook, twitter and Xing to gather comprehensive information about AGO AG. In the future we would also like to get more involved in relevant discussion groups,” explained Christian Reinlein, spokesperson of AGO AG Energie + Anlagen.

About AGO AG Energie + Anlagen

AGO AG Energie + Anlagen, with its registered office in Kulmbach, was founded in 1980 and is specialized in the area of innovative and efficient energy supply facilities for industrial customers and municipalities. Main focus of AGO AG Energie + Anlagen is laid on the following business divisions: plant development and implementation, as well as service and consulting. The core competence of the company mainly commits to thermal power stations, to heating, cooling and ventilation technology plant construction, biomass cogeneration plants and trigeneration. Site studies and development, consulting in energy efficiency, resource and fossil fuel management as well as emission trade management – these factors complete the business model. AGO symbolizes efficiency, security and technological competence of your energy supply facilities.