Salzgitter Group in Figures

		1st Quartal 2007	1st Quartal 2006
Sales (consolidated)	€ million	2,381	1,983	20 %
Steel Division	€ million	723	607	19 %
Tubes Division	€ million	428	398	8 %
Trading Division	€ million	1,075	866	24 %
Services Division	€ million	131	93	42 %
Other/Consolidation	€ million	25	20	22 %
of which flat rolled products	€ million	1,059	988	7 %
of which sections	€ million	326	216	51 %
of which tubes	€ million	656	519	26 %
of which export share	%	50	56	-11 %
EBT from operations (before special items)	€ million	325	199	64 %
Earnings before tax (EBT)	€ million	325	50	549 %
Net income	€ million	197	36	451 %
Balance sheet total	€ million	7,391	5,809	27 %
Fixed assets	€ million	1,679	1,943	-14 %
Current assets	€ million	5,712	3,866	48 %
Inventories	€ million	1,688	1,425	18 %
Equity	€ million	3,722	2,038	83 %
Liabilities	€ million	3,669	3,771	-3 %
Non-current liabilities	€ million	2,190	2,074	6 %
Current liabilities	€ million	1,480	1,697	-13 %
of which due to banks	€ million	116	196	-41 %
Capital expenditure1)	€ million	59	35	70 %
Depreciation and amortization1)	€ million	50	50	1 %
Employees
Personnel expenses	€ million	249	241	3 %
Period-average core workforce		17,045	17,020	0 %
Period-average total workforce		18,412	18,353	0 %
Crude steel production 2)	kt	1,748	1,822	-4 %
Key figures
Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT)3)	€ million	331	56	487 %
EBIT before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA)	€ million	381	106	259 %
Earnings per share (undiluted)	€	3.41	0.62	450 %
Return on capital emplyed (ROCE)4) 5)	%	30.8	8.8
Cash flow	€ million	20	-113

Disclosure of financial data in compliance with IFRS
1) Excluding financial assets
2) In regard of the participations in Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (and Vallourec in 2006)
3) EBT plus interest paid (excluding interest element in allocations to pension provisions)
4) EBIT in relation to the total of shareholders' equity (without calculation of accrued and deferred taxes), tax provisions, interest-bearing liabilities (excluding pension provisions) and liabilities from financial leasing, forfaiting and asset-backed securitization
5) Annualized