Archive - Press releases

Hamburg / Paris, 2011-04-28 – As of 28 April 2011, the international EOS Group (www.eos-solutions.com), an Otto Group company, acquired 100 per cent of the …read more

Hamburg / Sarajevo, 01.02.2011 – From 1 February 2011 on, the EOS Group (www.eos-solutions.com), an Otto Group company, starts its operative business in …read more

Hamburg / Kiev, 29 November 2010 - From December 2010 on, the EOS Group (www.eos-solutions.com), an Otto Group company, enters the Ukrainian market. The new …read more

Hamburg – Good news for Eastern European companies: they seldom suffer from bad debts. In Russia, companies only have to write off 1.8 % of invoices. In …read more

Consolidated sales up by 5.6 per cent / Germany remains most important market / Effects of the international financial crisis are particularly …read more

Hamburg – For the sixth time in succession, Euler Hermes Rating GmbH has rated EOS Consolidated with an ‘A’. This means that the agency regards EOS’ credit …read more

Hamburg / Beijing, 20 July 2010 – As of 19 July 2010, the international EOS Group, an Otto Group company, entered a strategic cooperation with CreditCN …read more

Moscow, Russia—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced that it will partner with EOS Group of Hamburg, Germany to address the growing problem of …read more

Hamburg – As of 30 April 2010, the international EOS Group, an Otto Group company, acquired 100 per cent of the stakes in the U.S.-American company True North …read more

Hamburg – For the fifth time in succession, Euler Hermes Rating GmbH has awarded an ‘A’ rating to EOS consolidated. This means that the agency regards the …read more

Hamburg / Munich – On 21 October 2009, EOS Finanzholding took over 51 per cent of the shares of the commodity purchase prefinance provider, WCF Finetrading AG, …read more

Hamburg – Current developments in the financing sector, challenges facing receivables management, and cross-border payment transactions were the focal points …read more

Hamburg / A Coruña – The Spanish Banco Pastor Group and the international EOS Group have reached an agreement by which EOS will acquire 100 per cent of the …read more

Hamburg – In times of crisis, efficient receivables management takes centre stage. Which receivables management measures have the desired effect in difficult …read more

Group sales grow by 22.2 per cent to EUR 297.4 million in 2008/09 / Germany remains most important market / Impact of the international financial crisis …read more

Payment behaviour investigated in Bulgaria, Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Hungary. High proportion of payments paid punctually in Switzerland …read more

‘European Payment Practices’: Companies are concerned about a decline in payment behaviour and an increase in insolvencies: In the five-nation comparison: …read more

Hamburg, 16 July 2009 – The EOS Group, an Otto Group subsidiary, welcomes both the laws which the German Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) approved on 10 …read more

Hamburg – Creditors find defaulting payers easier to reach over the landline than on their mobile phones. This was revealed by an analysis by the financial …read more

Hamburg / Zagreb – As of 1 March 2009, the EOS Group, an Otto Group company, entered the Croatian market. The new local company EOS Matrix d.o.o. offers debt …read more

Hamburg – As per the end of December 2008, the EOS Group acquired an additional 49 per cent of the shares in EOS Payment Solutions GmbH & Co. KG from Albis …read more

Hamburg - At the end of 2008, TÜV Rheinland (Rheinland Technical Control Board) certified EOS KSI, the financial services provider, as a particularly …read more

Hamburg – Young people were less indebted in 2008. This is the result of the EOS survey on the social structure of debtors, which has been carried out …read more

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 …read more

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 …read more

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 …read more

Hamburg, 22 October 2008 – The international financial services company EOS welcomes the German Federal Government’s plan to modify the term over-indebtedness …read more

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 …read more

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 …read more

Hamburg/Munich, 10 September 2008 – xplosion interactive GmbH, a Munich-based company that markets selected premium websites and is focused on targeting, began …read more

Hamburg, 29 April 2008 – The national economies of Greece, Poland, Romania and Russia are growing dynamically – but in some cases under very different …read more

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 …read more

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 …read more

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 …read more

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 …read more

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 …read more

Hamburg – Their topics: international collection, litigation default proceedings, insolvency proceedings and factoring. Shortfalls in payment are among the …read more

Berlin – Opportunities and risks inherent in the international networking of financial markets, and the current credit crisis and its consequences for Europe …read more

Hamburg – Is a real estate crisis of US proportions con-ceivable in Germany? How are the booming markets in Eastern Europe de-veloping? What does effective …read more

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 …read more

Hamburg - Cooperation with largest Russian mail-order company PPE Group - Business operations to begin in spring of 2008 - Only a few small companies on …read more

Hamburg - Partition into five business units: Finance, Germany, USA, Western Europe and Eastern Europe - New additions to the Board read more

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 …read more

Sales up by almost 3 percent – in spite of difficult market conditions Capital ratio increases by 8.5 percentage points Successful expansion in Eastern …read more

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Hamburg, 19.7.2005. EOS Group acquires majority stake in Greek financial services company Europe Matrix read more