Softing AG: Release according to Article 41 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] with the objective of Europe-wide distribution

Softing AG is a Germany-based software and systems company. The Company operates through two segments: Industrial Automation and Automotive Electronics. The Industrial Automation segment provides tools and devices for signal and protocol analysis of industrial communication networks, gateways for linking fieldbuses to Ethernet-based communication systems and planning and administration systems, as well as interface cards, integration modules, chip solutions and communications software (stacks) for implementing bus links in systems and devices used in process and production automation. The Automotive Electronics segment offers diagnostic solutions for development, testing and production, editors for diagnostic data, diagnostic servers for the real-time processing of diagnostic data, as well as software interfaces for connecting diagnostic servers to production systems and editing and runtime systems for test sequences with connections to numerous third-party products.