Press releases

29.04.2008

EOS four-nation survey 2007. Payment practices in Europe: Varying growth rates

Hamburg, 29 April 2008 – The national economies of Greece, Poland, Romania and Russia are growing dynamically – but in some cases under very different conditions and with their own special cultural characteristics, as is clearly...

18.04.2008

EOS four-country survey 2007. European payment habits: every country pays differently

Hamburg, 21 April 2008 – Long credit terms are no guarantee of punctual payment. This is just one of the findings of the EOS four-nation survey of ‘European Payment Habits’ in 2007.

17.03.2008

The result of the EOS Financial Panel: banks were already being noticeably cautious about granting loans at the end of 2007

Hamburg, 17 March 2008 – As early as November 2007, German banks were already showing greater caution about granting loans as a consequence of the US mortgage crisis. This is one of the findings of the current EOS Financial...

30.01.2008

Socially deprived debtors benefit from the upturn on the employment market

Hamburg, 30 January 2008 – In 2007, the proportion of socially deprived debtors fell for the first time in five years. The figure decreased by 1.7 percentage points from 54.5 per cent to 52.8 per cent, indicating a reversal of...

10.01.2008

EOS acquires 51 per cent stake in marketing services provider CoXulto

Hamburg / Stuttgart, 10 January 2008 – As of 1 January 2008, the EOS Group, an Otto Group company, holds a 51 per cent stake in the direct marketing specialist CoXulto. The cooperation effectively combines the competencies of...

30.11.2007

Fortis and EOS enter into a partnership in debt collection

Brussels / Utrecht/ Hamburg - Fortis Consumer Finance and EOS have reached an agreement by which EOS will acquire 50% joint control of Aremas, a subsidiary of Alpha Credit, part of Fortis Consumer Finance. Together, the new...

13.11.2007

Four new Haufe pocket financial guides now in the bookshops

Hamburg – Their topics: international collection, litigation default proceedings, insolvency proceedings and factoring.

Shortfalls in payment are among the most common causes of corporate insolvency in Germany. That’s one reason...

19.10.2007

Record number of visitors at 4th International EOS Congress

Berlin – Opportunities and risks inherent in the international networking of financial markets, and the current credit crisis and its consequences for Europe were the focus of the 4th International EOS Congress on 17 and 18...

29.08.2007

EOS Group’s successful financial year exceeds expectations

Hamburg

- Sales for 2006/07 up by 13.4 per cent to EUR 231.1, EBIT up by 11.9 per cent

- Cash flow management and information management grow by more than 40 per cent

- Two new companies broaden service portfolio

21.08.2007

EOS Group expands into Russia

Hamburg

- Cooperation with largest Russian mail-order company PPE Group

- Business operations to begin in spring of 2008

- Only a few small companies on Russian debt collection market until now

27.02.2007

EOS Group with new group structure

Hamburg

- Partition into five business units: Finance, Germany, USA, Western Europe and Eastern Europe

- New additions to the Board

25.01.2007

EOS Group stakeholder in payment service provider

Hamburg On 1 January 2007, the EOS Group – an Otto Group company – acquired the controlling interest of the company Albis Zahlungsdienste GmbH & Co. KG. The Albis Finance AG company offers services relating to payment processes...

07.09.2006

EOS Group increases sales to more than EUR 200 million in financial year 2005/2006

Sales up by almost 3 percent – in spite of difficult market conditions

Capital ratio increases by 8.5 percentage points

Successful expansion in Eastern Europe

14.09.2005

Successful results

Hamburg, 14.09.2005.

19.07.2005

Expansion to south-eastern Europe

Hamburg, 19.7.2005.

EOS Group acquires majority stake in Greek financial services company Europe Matrix

27.09.2004

Quality seal for financial services

Hamburg, 27.9.2004. EOS Holding has changed its appearance, thus giving the starting signal for the conversion of the previously different brand images within the Group.

07.10.2003

Cooperation with Microsoft Business Solutions - Professional Credit Management for all Decision Makers

Bad Rappenau, 07. Oktober 2003

26.09.2003

Create more space for investments – use alternative forms of financing

Berlin, 26. September 2003

17.09.2003

Fresh Wind in crusty financial relations

Berlin, 17. September 2003.

17.09.2003

Small and Medium-sized Businesses must budge

Berlin, 17 September 2003. ‚There is a fierce battle taking place in the production branch for best location and ... the cheapest offer wins’ establishes Prof. Dr. h.c. Lothar Späth at today’s press breakfast taking place on the...

14.05.2003

Quo vadis financing of small and medium-sized businesses

“Impulse” business-seminars tell of new means for safeguarding liquidity

24.10.2002

EOS-group and Walter TeleMedien-Gruppe cooperate

Integrated customer and claims management achieves speed and flexibility

11.07.2002

Basel II spells the end for of present-day bank financing

Germany's negotiating successes in Basel II do not solve the acute financing problems facing small and medium-sized businesses / Banks are withdrawing from financing small and medium-sized businesses / Boom for financial services...

04.12.2001

Basel II signals the end of present-day bank financing

Hardest hit are business customers of savings banks - Banks withdraw from the business customer sector -Boom predicted for the financial services sector

09.10.2001

Online Book Trade Stagnates

Online shops so far have no impact on non-moving sales - RPM boosts bookshop chains - Market concentration in the Internet on the up

23.02.2001

From European Leader to Global Player for Financial Services

From European leader to global player for financial services

Hamburg-based EOS group buys out the American company Collecto - Advancement into the international top ten / Worldwide network now consists of 20 financial service...

01.09.2000

Go ahead for EOS Solutions

New umbrella tradename for 19 finance service companies / one of the leading providers in Europe