The New Year brings two new appointments to the supervisory board of Wall AG. Dieter Keppler, managing director of JCDecaux Germany and Dr. Oleg de Lousanoff, partner, lawyer and notary at corporate law firm Hengeler Mueller, enter the supervisory board as new members. They succeed Professor Jobst Plog and Dieter Johannsen-Roth who both leave the board. The supervisory board of Wall AG now consist of chairman Hans Wall, vice-chairman Jean- François Decaux, Roland von zur Muehlen, Dieter Keppler and Dr. de Lousanoff.

Dr. Oleg de Lousanoff, who was born in 1952 in Frankfurt (Main), is since 1984 partner at the law firm Hengeler Mueller. After studying law and economics in Freiburg and Berkley, Dr. de Lousanoff taught at the University of Freiburg. In 1981 he successfully passed the Second State Exam and embarked on a career as a lawyer at Hengeler Mueller. Dr. de Lousanoff is a distinguished specialist in company law, takeovers and mergers.

Dieter Keppler has been managing director of JCDecaux Germany GmbH since 1987. Before starting his career in the advertising department of the Hamburg based publishing house "Jahreszeitenverlag", he took vocational training in advertising and graduated in business administration. After five years with LINTAS advertising agency, Dieter Keppler in 1978 founded Concept-Media which he led as managing partner until 1987.

"We are glad to welcome Mr. Keppler and Dr. de Lousanoff as new members of our supervisory board. At the same time we would like to express our thanks to Professor Plog and Mr. Johannsen-Roth for their dedicated work on the board", Daniel Wall, Chief Executive Officer of Wall AG, points out. "With Mr. Keppler as a member, we will be able to achieve optimum synergy with our partner JCDecaux. Furthermore, with Dr. de Lousanoff we have won an eminent legal expert to help us set the course for the successful future collaboration of our companies."

Key-Facts for the Wall-Group

• International street furniture supplier and outdoor advertiser in six countries and more than 50 cities,
  amongst others Berlin, Budapest, Düsseldorf, Istanbul and Sofia


• Innovative street furniture in highest-quality design; 28 different design-lines


• Made to measure solutions provided by in-house research and development unit


• Production, maintenance, and cleaning from one single source ensure highest quality standards


• Intelligent outdoor advertising on 65,000 advertising spaces with highest frequencies of exposure, and on around 6,527 means of transportation
  such as tramways, busses, underground trains and trucks


• National and international sales team with 10 sales-offices, providing outstanding marketing expertise


• Marketing-portfolio in Germany: 27 cities, AirportNet, ShoppingNet, Leipzig Central Station, Berlinale Film-Festival,
  bluespot, RollAd on highways, transit advertising in Berlin, including all underground stations


• turnover 2008: € 114.7 mill.; number of employees: 717