German Business Travel Specialist Enhances its Service Portfolio with Videoconferencing Solutions from VCON
(July 6, 2004) Unterhaching / Frankfurt (Germany) – VCON (Euronext- Nouveau Marché -ISIN CODE: IL 00 108 30540), a worldwide leader in audio and videoconferencing solutions, today announced a co-operation with DER Business Travel / SYNERGI Germany. The business travel expert plans to enhance its service portfolio with videoconferencing solutions from VCON. By partnering with VCON, DER Business Travel / SYNERGI Germany will be able to provide its customers with a variety of visual communications solutions. The videoconferencing product range includes group systems enabling teams to collaborate on documents during a videoconference, as well as desktop systems that can be used by individual users to communicate via voice and video directly from their computers. All that is required for a videoconference is an ISDN connection or a corporate network. The appropriate videoconferencing system will be delivered by DER Business Travel / SYNERGI Germany in co-operation with VCON. Travel departments of companies co-operating with DER Business Travel / SYNERGI Germany now have the ability to purchase videoconferencing systems for virtual conferences in addition to booking business travel from a renowned travel agency. This results in an opportunity to reduce travel costs without giving up personal business relationships. Interested customers will receive consultation on the appropriate technology from VCON and ATIMA, an IT reseller which is also responsible for implementing the videoconferencing systems as well as training and service offerings. “Although it may sound somewhat absurd, good and efficient travel agency chains today must have the ability to offer alternatives to conventional business travel in order to help companies reduce their business travel costs and contribute to their success,” said Andreas Wienold, senior vice president global sales, VCON. “In addition to classical business travel, DER Business Travel / SYNERGI Germany provides extensive communication management services that can now be enriched with VCON videoconferencing solutions. We welcome this co-operation and are proud that DER Business Travel / SYNERGI Germany has selected our technology.” Christian Spangenberg, department director, DER Business Travel / SYNERGI Germany, added, “We are glad that we can use VCON’s videoconferencing products to provide our customers with another alternative for their virtual business travels. We are now able to provide them with an expanded service portfolio in this area in order to meet their individual requirements.“ About DER Business Travel / SYNERGI Germany The DER Business Travel / SYNERGI Germany division encompasses the business travel activities of DER Deutsches Reisebüro GmbH & Co. OHG. Founded in 1917, DER has become one of the most successful travel agencies with worldwide activities. Since January 2000, the DER group belongs to REWE Touristik. In its more than 100 Business Travel Centers throughout Germany, DER Business Travel provides corporate customers with comprehensive professional services in the area of business travels, including planning, booking, accounting and analysis. In addition to basic services including travel expense accounting, VAT refund, visa, conference and foreign currency services, DER Business Travel / SYNERGI Germany offers its customers national and international hotel programs including professional hotel purchasing services. DER Business Travel is networked on a global basis by SYNERGI Global Travel Management, an association of leading business travel management providers. This association currently consists of 42 partner companies with more than 3,000 subsidiaries in 50 countries. DER Business Travel / SYNERGI Germany is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) and recorded sales of 559 million Euros in 2003. | 
