Employees

As of September 30, 2008, a total of 655 people (previous year: 592) were employed in the continued instrument business and the discontinued project business. The instrument business, which is being continued on its own, accounted for 536 employees (previous year: 478). The increase is attributable to uninterrupted organic growth and greater require-ments for production, sales, and marketing. Within the instrument business, there were 341 employees in the analytical solutions business unit, 77 employees in the bio solutions business unit, and 118 employees in the optical solutions business unit. Having trained interns since 1993, Analytik Jena currently has 48 interns in the continued business unit in Germany, which corresponds to an internship rate of 10.4 %.

The discontinued project solutions business unit had 119 employees, including 4 interns, as of the balance sheet date. A total of 135 people (previous year: 122) were employed in foreign countries over all business units; of the total, 74 employees were attributable to the instrument business. Broken down by functional area, Analytik Jena’s continued instrument business employed 211 people in production, 164 in sales, and 95 in research and development.There were 66 administrative staff members. The fact that 52.7 % (previous year: 58.7 %) of the employees have graduated from a university, a university of applied sciences, or have a bachelor’s degree attests to the high level of qualification within the Group. Excluding interns, the average age of the employees in the instrument business was 38.6 years.

Overall, personnel costs increased during the reporting period by 7.3 % from EUR 18,006 thousand to EUR 19,327 thousand.

Number of employees since the financial year 2004/2005

*| including interns