Österreichische Volksbanken-Aktiengesellschaft ... - Volksbank AG

1.3 Summary regarding the Issuer
General
VBAG is a joint stock corporation (Aktiengesellschaft) established under Austrian law and
registered in the Austrian companies’ register (Firmenbuch) under the name of
Österreichische Volksbanken-Aktiengesellschaft, registration number 116476 p. It operates
inter alia under the commercial name of "VBAG". The competent court for registration is
the Commercial Court Vienna (Handelsgericht Wien). Its registered office is at Peregringasse
3, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. With effect of 1 July 2007, its registered office will be at
Kolingasse 19, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
The Management Board (Vorstand) of VBAG consists of five members. The Supervisory
Board (Aufsichtsrat) comprises twenty-one members, seven of whom are representatives of
the staff council.
Share capital
VBAG’s issued share capital amounts to EUR 311,095,411.82 and is divided into
42,791,666 bearer shares with a nominal value of EUR 7.27 each, as of the date of this Prospectus.
The shareholders of the voting capital of VBAG are Volksbanken Holding registrierte
Genossenschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (58.2 per cent.), DZ BANK group (25.0 per cent.
plus one share), ERGO group (Victoria insurance) (10.0 per cent.), Raiffeisen Zentralbank
Österreich Aktiengesellschaft (6.1 per cent.) and other shareholders (0.7 per cent.).
Financial Information
The financial information below is extracted from the audited consolidated financial statements
of VBAG for the year ended 31 December 2006:
Amounts in EUR thousand
Total assets 67,429,317
Net interest income 662,925
Pre-tax profit for the year 309,433
Profit for the year after taxes 262,776
Net profit after minority interests 155,159
Business Overview
VBAG is a universal bank and offers banking services to private clients, corporate clients,
clients from the public sector and to its partners, mainly the Austrian Volksbanken (credit
co-operatives), in Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Cyprus, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Malta.
VBAG’s activities are organised in the following business divisions:
� Corporate;
� Retail;
� Treasury;
� Real estate; and
� Public Finance.
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