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 Thursday December 6 2001
AND incurs losses in second half
AND International Publishers will post losses for the second half-year. As a result of costs incurred by the closure of German and US offices, the publisher can no longer realise the earlier announced slightly positive forecast. AND expects positive EBITDA for 2002 and a return to profit in 2003. AND will privately place 375 million ordinary shares with Dutch holding company Roosland Beheer in order to strengthen the balance sheet and continue core activities.

Thursday November 15 2001
AND Products BV and Quintens Media BV form Partnership
Today, AND Products B.V. has officially announced a new partnership with Quintens Media B.V. on the marketing, distribution and sales of it's CD Rom routeplanning software for both the consumer and business markets throughout Europe. AND's most successfull products in retail include the routeplanners 'AND Route 2002 Benelux and Europe' and the mileage management software 'AND Declaratie'.

Tuesday March 20 2001
AND and Roosland Beheer are discussing about restructuring AND Group
AND International Publishers N.V. (AND) and Roosland Beheer B.V. (Roosland), part of the Indofin Group, jointly announce that they are having discussions concerning a restructuring of the AND Group. Within this scope it is intended that the business activities of the AND Group will be downsized. Roosland intends to propose the refinancing, part of which will be the conversion of the listed subordinated convertible bond with nominal value of NLG 50 mln.

Monday February 26 2001
District Court grants AND provisional suspension of payment
On February 22, 2001 The Rotterdam District Court has granted a provisional suspension of payment to AND International Publishers nv, listed at Euronext Amsterdam. Mr. Jeroen G. Princen of Ploum Lodder Princen OWA in Rotterdam has been appointed as administrator of the company.

Thursday February 22 2001
AND: ongoing processes have not yet come to a satisfactory result
Following the press release of February 20, 2001 AND International Publishers announces that the ongoing processes have not yet come to a satisfactory result. The company has tried to accelerate the sale of its key activities, the AND Data Solutions' Division, as well as its project activities, AND Publishing Solutions.

Wednesday February 21 2001
AND International Publishers finalizes sale of Biblion
AND International Publishers nv announces that its subsidiary Biblion has been sold for an amount of more than NLG 8 mln to the Nederlandse Bibliotheek Dienst. Biblion's 2000 turnover amounts to NLG 26 mln. Biblion develops products, services and knowledge in the field of media and information provision for public libraries, their users and the educational market.

Monday February 19 2001
AND: still not fuether information
Following the press release of 23 January 2001, AND International Publishers informs that, currently they are not able to give further information about the running processes.The company strives to make further announcements within two weeks.

Wednesday January 24 2001
AND soars suspiciously
The Dutch exchange regulator was set to look into the rate fluctuation of digital route planner AND Publishers. AND soared by over 80 per from 0.69 to EUR 1.25 cent between Thursday and Monday. This rate climb was accompanied by extreme trading volumes. Investors found out the reason for the increase on Tuesday.

Tuesday January 23 2001
AND's future strategy
On December 27, 2000 the Board of AND International Publishers issued a press release, indicating that it was reconsidering its position in the light of the changing market sentiment for IT and Internet related services in particular, which was making the search for the right strategic partner in an appropriate horizon difficult.

Wednesday December 27 2000
AND evaluates its strategy and is in discussion
AND International Publishers nv announces to be discussing the potential sale of its subsidiary Biblion BV to De Nederlandse Bibliotheek Dienst (The Dutch Library Service Organization). In August AND announced to foresee a stronger focus on its core activities, being mobile based internet services related to travel and address management.

Thursday September 28 2000
Hans Abbink steps down as member of the board of directors of AND
As of October 1, 2000 Hans Abbink will step down as member of the Board of Directors and Statutory Director of AND International Publishers N.V., ending a period of 15 years in which he contributed substantially to the development of the company. Following the company's new strategy, a strong focus and profiling on Internet and mobile was needed.

Monday August 28 2000
AND narrows H1 losses
AND reported on Monday operating losses for the first-half of 2000 narrowed to EUR 3.3 mln, compared with operating losses of EUR 5.5 mln for the first-half of 1999. Revenues fell from EUR 18.8 mln to EUR 13.1 mln. The company divested its AND Identification, resulting in a bookprofit of EUR 22 mln, and AND Cartographic Publishers activities, which the company expects will result in a book loss of EUR 4.5 mln.

Tie, AND merger talks terminated
Tie Holding and AND announced on Monday that talks on a possible merger have been terminated. Discussions about a koint business case of Tie and AND have not resulted in the definition of clear synergies, the companies said in a joined statement. It was concluded that the business fit between the core activities of both companies is too narrow to justify a merger or takeover, the statement said.

Tuesday July 11 2000
AND needs partner
AND International Publishers' chairman chris Haveman confirmed that AND had reopened talks over a strategic partnership with Tie. AND last week terminated talks with Distefore which would have led to a takeover of AND by the German-based IT company. Haveman said AND has now rejected a stand-alone policy and is seeking a partner for expansion on the world market.

Thursday July 6 2000
Distefora drops AND bid
Swiss IT company Distefora has pulled out of its bid for AND International Publishers, both companies announced on Thursday. Distefora announced its bid for AND on May 22. Distefora was not prepared to pay more than EUR 2.40 a share, which AND rejected as unacceptable.

Thursday June 29 2000
AND and Tie in talks
AND International said on Thursday at its annual general meeting of shareholders that it will conduct talks with Tie, following Tie's bid to acquire the company on Tuesday. Board member Ad Adriaansen said that AND was not happy with the fact that Tie had announced its intentions to the press. Swiss IT company Distefora made an offer to acquire AND in May.

Tuesday June 27 2000
AND concerning announcement Tie
TIE Holding said on Tuesday that it has informed AND International Publishers of her intention to make a bid for the shares of AND International Publishers and invited the Board of AND to discuss the proposed bid, the price or exchange relation, the motivation for the bid, the ideas regarding to the strategy of AND and the way for financing the bid. As known, AND is in discussion with Distefora Holding, a Swiss listed Information Technology Group, which also is proposing an offer for AND.

Friday June 16 2000
AND not interested in talks with Tie
AND International Publishers and Distefora, which made a bid for AND at the end of May, said they are not interested in talks with Tie Holding for now. Tie Holding wants to join the takeover talks because it aims to acquire parts of the technology developed by AND, while Distefora only would be interested in AND's database, Tie said. Distefora said it will only meet with Tie once the acquisition of AND is completed.

Friday May 26 2000
AND, Distefora start merger talks
AND International Publishers and Distefora Holding said they began discussions about Distefora's bid for AND. The results of the talks will be announced "in due course", the companies said in a joint statement. "Until such time, both companies will refrain from further statements to the press in relation to the progress of these discussions", they said.

Wednesday March 8 2000
AND sells its Identification unit
AND International Publishers said on Wednesday that it is sellings its Identification unit to network security firm Bell Group of the UK for NLG 55 mln. According to provisional figures, AND made losses of NLG 15.4 mln last year, compared with NLG 3 mln in 1998. AND said the sale of Identification and other divestments are intended to bolster its financial position. Bell is paying more than 18 times the unit's operating profit, which was NLG 3 mln on sales of NLG 12 mln in 1999.

Thursday December 30 1999
AND wins ABN Amro order
AND International Publishers announced on Thursday that its subsidiary AND Identification has concluded an agreement with ABN Amro for the provision of a card management system. The smartcards managed by this system allows ABN Amro to manage electronic transactions of business customers on the Internet in a secure and efficient way, AND said. Financial details were not provided.

Monday November 29 1999
AND issues profit warning
AND International Publishers announced on Monday that it may book a loss for full-year 1999. Earlier the company said it would deliver a profit for full-year 1999. The company said it is anticipated that revenue development in November and December will not be adequate to cover for the lag in revenue growth earlier this year.

Wednesday September 22 1999
Probe into AND insider trading
The public prosecutor's department is investigating whether former employees of stock broker Leemhuis & Van Loon were involved in the insider trading of AND shares in 1997. The probe is focusing on the founder of AND. The insider trading allegations date from October 1997 when an flotation of 1.8 million new shares in AND was lead-managed by Leemhuis & Van Loon.

Friday August 27 1999
AND supplies smartcards to KPN Telecom
AND International Publishers announced on Friday that its subsidiary AND Identification has won an order with a value of between NLG 1 mln and NLG 2 mln from KPN Telecom. AND Identification is to deliver a multifunctional smartcard management system that enables KPN Telecom to manage the cards for its employees, AND said. The company said that KPN Telecom is the second company that implements the Chipper-concept for its company cards.

Thursday July 8 1999
AND signs agreement with Barnes & Noble
AND International announced on Thursday that its subsidiary AND Cartographic Publishers has signed a five year license agreement with bookseller Barnes & Noble. AND will work with Barnes & Noble's publishing arm to produce the American 'Discover the World' series. Financial details were not disclosed.

Tuesday July 6 1999
AND wins order from Dutch army
AND International announced on Tuesday that its unit AND Identification has won a contract to supply the Dutch army with its chip card management system Andis. The system will be used on 24,000 army personnel ID cards to supply extra information such as user access level and the sums spent in army tax-free shops. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

Thursday July 1 1999
AND in deal with Maas
AND International publishers announced on Thursday that its subsidiary AND Identification has concluded an agreement with Maas Systems, a subsidiary of Maas International Europe, for the provision of AND's card management platform ANDIS and related services. The ANDIS platform will be integrated in Maas System's equipment to offer products and services related to multifunctional smart card usage.

Wednesday April 21 1999
Publisher AND replaces supervisory board
AND International Publishers of Rotterdam intends to appoint two new members to its supervisory board. Mr Doornhein is nominated as chairman and Mr Adriaansen as a member. The current members of AND's supervisory board resign.

Tuesday March 30 1999
AND sells foreign units
AND has sold its publishing activities in Spain, Italy and France to local management. AND Map Graphics, a service related subsidiary, and AND Cartographic Database will also be sold off. The divestments will results in NLG 4 mln less turnover. However the firm is confident it will still hit its 1999 turnover target of NLG 170 mln.

Tuesday March 23 1999
AND wins British Airways contract
AND has won a contract from British Airways to develop a desktop travel planning product for its business class paessengers and travel planners. The company described the BA transaction as a financially attractive deal. Partly because of declining orders, AND's profits fell to NLG 200,000 on turnover of NLG 61.3 mln. A NLG 4.5 mln tax provision resulted in net losses of NLG 2.8 mln for the year.

AND wins order from British Airways
AND International publishers has won a contract with British Airways for the development of a desktop travel-planning product for business travelers and travel planners. The new product is at the advanced planning stage and will be ready for distribution in the second half year. The end result will be high quality planning products with schedule updates being downloaded via the Internet.

Monday March 8 1999
AND International in internet deal
AND International subsidiary AND Publishing has signed a three-year license agreement with AOL subsidiary Compuserve Interactive Services for the use of AND Internet products: AND WebRoute (routeplanner) and AND WebFlight (worldwide flightplanner). Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

Monday February 15 1999
AND Int. Publishers net loss NLG 2.8 mln
AND International Publishers reported on Monday a net loss for 1998 of NLG 2.7 mln, compared with net profit of NLG 1.5 mln the company booked in the comparible period of 1997. Turnover doubled from NLG 30.2 mln to NLG 61.3 mln. Operating income fell 56% from NLG 2.5 mln to NLG 1.1 mln. The company booked a loss per share of NLG 0,12, compared with earnings per share of NLG 0.07 for 1997.

Tuesday January 19 1999
AND net profit slumps 87% in 1998
AND International announced on Tuesday its profits fell 87% in 1998 to NLG 200,000 from NLG 1.5 mln a year earlier on turnover up 103% at NLG 61.3 mln. The news took investors by surprise as the company had not earlier issued a profit warning. AND said the slump in the second half was due to a sharp increase in personnel and disappointing sales of its airline data product in the US.

Tuesday September 29 1998
AND acquires 75% stake in NBLC
AND International Publishers announced on Tuesday that it has taken a 75% stake in NBLC, a foundation which provides information to schools and public libraries. NBLC employs about 100 people and makes a profit on annual sales of NLG 15 mln. AND will finance the acquisition through the issue of new shares, and says that NBLC will contribute to earnings per share.

Wednesday August 19 1998
AND H1 net up 50%
AND International Publishers reported on Wednesday net profit for the first-half of 1998 increased with 52% to NLG 0.6 mln, compared with net profit of NLG 0.4 mln the company booked in the comparible period of 1997. The improvement of net-profit was due to lower taxation because the establishment of an office in Ireland.

Monday July 13 1998
AND founder sells part of his shares
Eiko Dekkers, a supervisory board member and co-founder of AND International Publishers, has sold some of his shares in the company. Dekkers said he sold his shares for private reasons. Dekkers will receive about NLG 16 mln from the sale. Further AND announced it has formed an alliance with German map publishing company PTV.

Friday June 5 1998
AND plans second data production plant
AND International Publishers is planning a NLG 50 mln convertible bond issue to finance a second data-processing plant in a low-wage country and to expand its production facility in Ireland. AND said it is also in talks with 'a leading publisher' to form a partnership for the business information market.

Wednesday April 29 1998
AND forms partnership with Firstlogic
AND Information Technology announced it recently formed a strategic partnership with Firstlogic to market and sell software and datasets of postal codes and addresses with a worldwide coverage. AND said the partnership with Firstlogic is offering a powerful channel to market and support its US customers.

Tuesday April 14 1998
AND alliance with Tele Atlas
AND International Publishing's mapping unit has reached agreement with Tele Atlas of Belgium to combine data sets to create new products. Tele Atlas is a joint venture of Germany's Robert Bosch group and Janivo Holding of the Netherlands and is supplier of European digital road maps.

Monday March 30 1998
AND forecast turnover growth to NLG 170 mln by 2000
AND has made a new forecast for its turnover growth at its annual report presentation and said that current turnover of NLG 30 mln will grow by more than 70% in the coming years and reach NLG 170 mln by 2000. AND's previous forecast put turnover in 2000 at NLG 100 mln.

Friday March 13 1998
AND to terminate listing in London
AND International Publishers is to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of a new Dutch holding company that is to be listed on the Amsterdam stock exchange. The company's existing listings on the Amsterdam stock exchange and on the London stock exchange (AIM) will be terminated. AND International anticipates its flotation in London will cease mid-May.

Friday February 13 1998
AND International Publishers reports turnover of NLG 30.2 mln
AND International Publishers increased its turnover by 55%, from NLG 19.5 million in 1996 to NLG 30.2 million in 1997. Substantial growth was achieved in all sectors. In the Data sector turnover increased from NLG 3.6 million to NLG 6.3 million (74%). The Technology sector, boosted by the launch of its new Information Technology Division in September 1997, increased turnover by 44% from NLG 11.8 million to NLG 17 million.

Tuesday February 10 1998
AND subsidiary agrees with UK distributor
Listmaster Database Marketing Ltd, based in Bath (United Kingdom) and AND Information Technology, a division of the Rotterdam based AND International Publishers, have signed a three-year contract appointing Listmaster as the sole UK-based distributor of AND Clavis. The Clavis range of products consists of harmonised and up-to-date postal code data of over 20 European countries, as well as the USA.

Monday January 26 1998
AND International agrees with Wolters Kluwer usage AND CompLex
AND International reports that subsidiary AND International Publishing Technology has signed an agreement with Wolters Kluwer that will allow Wolters Kluwer to use AND CompLex, an electronic publishing platform.

Friday January 16 1998
AND International seeks more active role in telecom market
AND International Publishers wants to play a more active role in the telecom market. The company is to form a unit Telecom Business.

Monday January 12 1998
AND Publishing Technology and NBLC Uitgeverij conclude master contract
AND Publishing Technology, a division of AND Int. Publishers, and NBLC Uitgeverij have signed an agreement allowing NBLC to make unlimited use for three years of AND's electronic publishing platform.

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