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Munich, August 18, 2008. CCTS EVENTIM AG with immediate effect becomes the exclusive ticketing partner of Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) in Germany. US-based AEG Inc. is one of the world’s largest promoters of tours and concerts and operates numerous venues in the USA and Europe. The German business of AEG encompasses major arenas like O2 World in Berlin and Color Line Arena in Hamburg as well as the German ice hockey league (DEL) teams Eisbären Berlin (Berlin Ice Bears) and Hamburg Freezers and the organisation and promotion of events.
Tickets for events of Anschutz Entertainment Group, for their German venues and for their sports clubs will be offered exclusively over EVENTIM systems. EVENTIM expects an annual seven digit incremental ticket volume from the co-operation with Anschutz Entertainment Group. A good portion of these tickets will come from events in O2 World, one of the world’s most advanced multi functional arenas with a capacity of up to 17,000 that AEG has been building in Berlin on the former Ostbahnhof area. The O2 World arena will open on Septem-ber 12, 2008 with an album release party of Metallica, followed on September 13 by a con-cert of Herbert Grönemeyer and thereafter by the first official ice hockey league match of the Berlin Ice Bears and a concert by Coldplay in the new arena.
About CTS EVENTIM CTS EVENTIM AG
listed in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange prime standard segment (ISIN DE 0005470306) and member of the SDAX index, is the European market leader in ticketing and one of the leading promoters of live entertainment in the world. More than 60 million tickets for over 100,000 events are marketed annually through EVENTIM group systems. Besides more than 6,000 sales outlets in Europe, the importance of Internet ticket sales continues to increase, in particular through EVEN-TIM’s leading ticket portals www.eventim.de and www.getgo.de.
