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05.12.2008
EOS acquires Rochester Credit Center in the U.S. (RCC)
Hamburg / New York, 8 December 2008 – As of 1 December 2008, the EOS Group, an Otto Group company, acquired 100% of the assets of the U.S.-American debt collection company Rochester Credit Center, Inc. (RCC), d/b/a The Credit...
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05.11.2008
EOS Analyses: east-west gap in levels of indebtedness
Hamburg, 5 November 2008 – The average outstanding payment in Germany is about EUR 2400 and varies considerably from region to region. A regional evaluation of 4.5 million private debtors with total debts of over EUR 11 billion...
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24.10.2008
EOS Analyses: women pay better than men
Hamburg, 27 October 2008 – The probability that bills will get paid is higher if the defaulting payers are women. This was the finding of an analysis of 50,000 telephone calls that EOS Group employees conducted with EOS clients’...
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21.10.2008
EOS welcomes planned amendment in insolvency law
Hamburg, 22 October 2008 – The international financial services company EOS welcomes the German Federal Government’s plan to modify the term over-indebtedness in relation to insolvency law. In future it will no longer be...
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25.09.2008
EOS Group acquires Inkasso Arena AG in Switzerland
Effective retroactively from 1 July 2008, the EOS Group, a subsidiary of the Otto Group, is acquiring 100 per cent of the shares in the Swiss company Inkasso Arena AG. The transaction was signed and sealed by the two companies in...
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16.09.2008
EOS Group fulfils income and sales expectations in the 2007/08 financial year
Hamburg, 16 September 2008 – The EOS Group can look back on a successful 2007/08 financial year. All in all, the Hamburg-based international financial services provider increased its group sales by some EUR 12.1 million to EUR...
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10.09.2008
New EOS company xplosion interactive offers targeting solutions
Hamburg/Munich, 10 September 2008 – xplosion interactive GmbH, a Munich-based company that markets selected premium websites and is focused on targeting, began operations on 1 July 2008. The EOS Group has a majority stake in the...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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