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1 - What is the dividend policy of Hawesko? 2 - What is the capital market saying about Hawesko? 3 - What is Hawesko's business and main strengths? 1 - What is the dividend policy of Hawesko? Hawesko considers the regular payment of a dividend to be important. For fiscal year 2006 a dividend of € 0.85 per share has been paid out (previous year: € 0.70 plus € 0.30 bonus per share). 2 - What is the capital market saying about Hawesko? "Hawesko Holding AG: buy (M.M. Warburg & CO) - aktiencheck.de, 30 July 2007 //////// "Hawesko posts significant sales increase, reaffirms forecast" - aktiencheck.de, 27 July 2007 //////// "Wine drinkers are buying better wines - Hawesko increases sales and market share" -- Handelsblatt, 10 May 2007 //////// "Hawesko benefits from trend to better wines" -- Die Welt, 10 May 2007 //////// "At Hawesko the glasses are filling up again - no sales slump after the sales tax increase" -- Börsen-Zeitung, 10 May 2007 //////// 3 - What is Hawesko's business and main strengths? Hawesko Holding AG is Germany's leading seller of premium wines and champagne. With three distribution channels - mail-order/e-commerce (main brand: Hanseatisches Wein- und Sekt-Kontor), specialty wine stores (Jacques' Wein-Depot) and wholesale (Wein Wolf and CWD Champagner Wein Distribution) - the Group achieved sales of € 303 million in 2006. The premium wine market is very fragmented in Germany as in the rest of the world: Hawesko has been successful for over 40 years by consolidating this market. This position is becoming very important as consumption trends continue in favor of premium wines at the expense of simpler wines, and globalisation tendencies begin in this sector.