Share Price Performance. Following a slight recovery of the international stock markets at the turn of 2008/2009, the start to the new year of trading was extremely weak. The continued stream of poor economic data and increasingly tangible recessionary trends, compounded by a string of unfavorable quarterly results posted by European and U.S. blue chips, prompted a visible downturn in stock during January and February.

Wincor Nixdorf shares managed to buck the general market trend at the beginning of the quarter and initially gained significant ground during this period, before eventually returning at a higher level to the less buoyant performance trend seen within the German market as a whole. At the end of the reporting period, Wincor Nixdorf stock closed with an overall loss of 18.3%, thereby outperforming the market (–36.9%) by a significant margin.

Shares in Wincor Nixdorf recorded a high of €42.60 at the beginning of October 2008, while the share price at the end of the period under review stood at €34.11.

Performance of Wincor Nixdorf shares as from October 1, 2008 to
March 31, 2009 compared to MDAX (Performance Index), MSCI World:

Annual General Meeting and Dividend. Shareholders attending the Annual General Meeting of Wincor Nixdorf AG in Paderborn, Germany, on January 19, 2009, represented over 67% of the company’s voting rights. All resolutions on the agenda were passed with very large majorities.

A dividend of €2.13 per share was agreed for fiscal 2007/2008, which corresponds to a 13% increase compared with last year’s basic dividend.