The Executive Board and Investor Relations team of Deutsche EuroShop went on numerous roadshows and attended capital market conferences again in 2007. The aim was to develop new investor groups and maintain contact with existing investors.
As in previous years, the trips in 2007 focused on global financial centres such as London, Paris and Frankfurt where many of Deutsche EuroShop’s investors are traditionally based. However, new financial centres were also on the agenda: we visited investors in Madrid, Lisbon and Oslo for the first time, for example. One roadshow took us to the USA and as far as Canada. A visit to South Africa also included various presentations in Johannesburg and Cape Town to South African investors (see the “South of the Equator” report on page XX) alongside meetings with our investor Attfund, which has held over 5% of our shares since the end of 2007.
In 2007, we attended the capital market conferences of various renowned investment companies in Frankfurt, Munich, New York, London, Milan, Amsterdam and Stockholm as well as the annual conference of the EPRA (European Public Real Estate Association) in Athens. We also presented Deutsche EuroShop at a conference in Tokyo for the first time.
We will also hold various roadshows and attend capital market conferences in 2008. A constantly updated agenda of investor relations activities can be found online at www.deutsche-euroshop.com/ir.
Altogether, we held 23 roadshows last year and visited 16 conferences. Once again, we met over 300 investors individually.
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Capital market conferences give institutional investors the opportunity to meet as many companies as possible on the same day in one place. Representatives of the companies give presentations to participants, while group and one-onone discussions create the opportunity to go into particular questions in detail.
A roadshow involves a team consisting of a member of the Executive Board and a member of the Deutsche EuroShop Investor Relations department, together with representatives of the organising bank (such as, for example, analysts and account executives), travelling to a financial centre to meet existing or interested potential investors and provide them with information on the strategy and current performance of the Company. This gives investors the opportunity to meet a member of the management in person and put any questions to him directly. It is not unusual for up to ten meetings to be held in one city on a single day.