The Central-European ICT group ASSECO announced the 2008 economic results today. Asseco Slovakia together with Asseco Czech Republic, LCS International, Datalock and their daughter companies reached according to the international accounting standards IFRS the consolidated revenues of almost SKK 4,55 billion (EUR 148 million), which is an eighty-percent increase in comparison with the previous year. Besides this the Group reached almost a double net profit in the year-to-year comparison. Its amount totalled SKK 419 million (EUR 14 million).

Jozef Klein , Asseco Slovakia General Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors, comments on these facts: „I consider the results of the Group in the Czech and Slovak Republic to be very positive. Our companies fared well on these markets in spite of a not very good local economic situation. By the end of 2009 I expect the increase in the Group?s turnover of further 5-15%.“

The last – and very successful – year was for the ASSECO Group in these countries a clear proof of a growing trend, which was apparent with all its members already in the previous period.