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Viasystems Group, Inc. Reports Record Fourth-Quarter 2000 Earnings; Revenue Increased 78% from 1999.


Business Editors & Technology Writers

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2001

Viasystems Group, Inc. (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
:VG) today announced that the company's cash earnings ("EBG EBG Electromagnetic Band Gap
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") for the quarter ended December December: see month.  31, 2000, totaled $0.17 per fully diluted di·lute  
tr.v. di·lut·ed, di·lut·ing, di·lutes
1. To make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water.

2. To lessen the force, strength, purity, or brilliance of, especially by admixture.
 share. Revenue for the quarter was $456 million, an increase of 78% from proforma Proforma

A financial projection based on assumptions.
 revenues for the 1999 period.

Other highlights of the quarter's results were:
-- Revenue for the quarter increased 78% from the same period in 1999 and 12.1%
from the quarter ended September 30, 2000 as a result of strong organic growth
and the impact of acquisitions;

-- Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA") of
$76 million increased 62% and 9.8% over the same period in 1999 and the quarter
ended September 30, 2000, respectively; and

-- Revenue from printed circuit board assembly and electromechanical services
increased to 49% of total sales for the fourth quarter of 2000 compared to 33%
during the fourth quarter of 1999 and 45% during the third quarter of 2000.


A summary of the quarter's results follows:


                                Fourth            Fourth        %
(all figures in thousands,   Quarter 2000      Quarter 1999    Chg
except per share amounts)                       (pro forma)

Net sales                       $455,612          $256,381     77.7%
Gross margin                     106,614            72,936     46.2%
Gross margin %                     23.4%             28.4%        NA
Adjusted earnings (EBG)           23,893                NA        NA
Adjusted earnings
  (EBG), per fully
  diluted share                    $0.17                NA        NA
Net income, per fully
  diluted share                    $0.09                NA        NA
Fully diluted shares             140,769                NA        NA
EBITDA                            75,963            46,792     62.3%
EBITDA %                           16.7%             18.3%        NA

                                Fourth            Third         %
(all figures in thousands,   Quarter 2000      Quarter 2000    Chg
except per share amounts)
Net sales                       $455,612          $406,504     12.1%
Gross margin                     106,614            97,649      9.2%
Gross margin %                     23.4%             24.0%        NA
Adjusted earnings (EBG)           23,893            20,387     17.2%
Adjusted earnings
  (EBG), per fully
  diluted share                    $0.17             $0.15     13.3%
Net income, per fully
  diluted share                    $0.09             $0.06     50.0%
Fully diluted shares             140,769           136,229      3.3%
EBITDA                            75,963            69,160      9.8%
EBITDA %                           16.7%             17.0%        NA


For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2000, Viasystems reported EBG of $0.43 per share on revenue of $1.509 billion and EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) A metric used to show a company's profitability, but not its cash flow. EBITDA became popular in the 1980s to show the potential profitability of leveraged buyouts, but has become  of $255.2 million. For fiscal 1999, the company reported revenue of $929.2 million and EBITDA of $180.3 million.

Consistent with financial analysts' models, the preceding discussion on financial results reflects the pro forma As a matter of form or for the sake of form. Used to describe accounting, financial, and other statements or conclusions based upon assumed or anticipated facts.

The phrase pro forma
 results of Viasystems as though the March 29, 2000 transfer of nine European European

emanating from or pertaining to Europe.


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see lyssavirus.

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European blastomycosis
see cryptococcosis.
 manufacturing facilities had occurred on January January: see month.  1, 1999, which more appropriately reflects the results of Viasystems as a public company. The pro forma results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2000 also exclude the impact of one-time one-time
adj.
1. or one·time
a. Occurring or undertaken only once: a one-time winner in 1995.

b.
 non-cash charges Non-Cash Charge

A charge off, made by a company against earnings, that does not require an initial outlay of cash.

Notes:
Non-cash charges are typically against the depreciation, amortization, and depletion accounts on a company's balance sheet.
 totaling $104.4 million recorded in the first quarter of 2000. For more detail on these transactions, please refer to the Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 23, 2000 in connection with the company's initial public offering.

"We are very pleased to report another quarter of solid financial performance for Viasystems," said Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  James James, person in the Bible
James, in the Gospel of St. Luke, kinsman of St. Jude. The original does not specify the relationship.
James, rivers, United States
James.
 N. Mills. "Not only have we met financial expectations, we also completed an acquisition that rounds out our global, full-service full-ser·vice
adj.
Associated with or offering complete service: full-service gasoline pumps; full-service banks. 
 footprint The amount of geographic space covered by an object. A computer footprint is the desk or floor surface it occupies. A satellite's footprint is the earth area covered by its downlink. See form factor.

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 metal enclosure enclosure (inclosure) n. land bounded by a fence, wall, hedge, ditch or other physical evidence of boundary. Unfortunately, too often these creations are not included among the actual legally-described boundaries and cause legal problems.


ENCLOSURE.
 facility, Viasystems now has full box-build system integration capabilities in all major geographic geographic /geo·graph·ic/ (je?o-graf´ik) in pathology, of or referring to a pattern that is well demarcated, resembling outlines on a map.

geographic

pertaining to geography.
 areas of the world."

This press release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement

A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections.
 as defined by the federal securities laws, and these statements are based upon Viasystems' current expectations and assumptions, which are inherently subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those anticipated, projected, or implied Inferred from circumstances; known indirectly.

In its legal application, the term implied is used in contrast with express, where the intention regarding the subject matter is explicitly and directly indicated.
. Certain factors that could cause actual results to differ include fluctuations in operating results and customer orders, a competitive environment, reliance on large customers, risks associated with international operations Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. I.O. first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. volume 1 #1 (August, 1992) and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. , ability to protect patents and trade secrets, environmental laws and regulations, relationship with unionized employees, risks associated with acquisitions, substantial indebtedness INDEBTEDNESS. The state, of being in debt, without regard to the ability or inability of the party to pay the same. See 1 Story, Eq. 343; 2 Hill. Ab. 421.
     2.
, control by large stockholders and other factors described in Viasystems' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Viasystems Group, Inc. is a leading global EMS Ems, town, Germany
Ems or Bad Ems (bät ĕms), town (1994 pop. 10,130), Rhineland-Palatinate, W Germany, on the Lahn River.
 provider with more than 30,000 employees and 33 manufacturing facilities in nine countries, supplying customers in the telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , networking, automotive and consumer electronics industries. Viasystems is listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City.
, trading under the symbol "VG."

                        VIASYSTEMS GROUP, INC.
       PRO FORMA CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
                 (In thousands, except per share data)
                              (unaudited)

                             Three Months Ended  Twelve Months Ended
                                December 31,         December 31,
                             ------------------  --------------------
                               1999      2000      1999       2000
                             --------  --------  --------  ----------
Net sales                    $256,381  $455,612  $929,213  $1,509,322
Operating expenses:
  Cost of goods sold          183,445   348,998   673,152   1,145,316
  Selling, general
   and administrative          26,144    30,651    75,800     108,829
  Depreciation                 21,824    23,565    73,510      91,041
  Amortization                  8,577    10,855    24,529      45,118
  Write-off of acquired
   in-process R&D                  --        --    17,600          --
                             --------  --------  --------  ----------
    Operating income          $16,391   $41,543   $64,622    $119,018

Other expense:
  Interest expense             30,313    23,169   109,804     101,898
  Amortization of deferred
   financing fees                 958       762     6,461       4,272
  Other                         4,084     1,589     6,191       1,460
                             --------  --------  --------  ----------
Income (loss) before
 income taxes and
 cumulative effect
 of a change in accounting   $(18,964)  $16,023  $(57,834)    $11,388

Provision (benefit)
 for income taxes             (14,092)    2,405   (28,355)      1,715
                             --------  --------  --------  ----------
Income (loss) before
 cumulative effect of a
 change in accounting          (4,872)   13,618   (29,479)      9,673
Cumulative effect of a
 change of accounting
 - write-off of start-up
 costs (net of tax
 benefit of $1,780)                --        --     3,580          --
                             --------  --------  --------  ----------
Net income (loss)             $(4,872)  $13,618  $(33,059)     $9,673
                             ========  ========  ========  ==========
Net income (loss) per share:
  Basic                        $(0.07)    $0.09    $(0.52)      $0.04
  Diluted                      $(0.07)    $0.09    $(0.55)      $0.04
Weighted average shares
 outstanding:
  Basic                        78,001   136,993    62,123     121,607
  Diluted                      84,466   140,769    67,238     125,893


                        VIASYSTEMS GROUP, INC.
                  SUPPLEMENTAL PRO FORMA INFORMATION
                 (In thousands, except per share data)
                              (unaudited)

                             Three Months Ended  Twelve Months Ended
                                 December 31,        December 31,
                             ------------------  --------------------
                               1999      2000      1999       2000
                             --------  --------  --------  ----------
Earnings before interest,
 taxes, depreciation
 and amortization ("EBITDA") $ 46,792  $ 75,963  $180,261   $ 255,177
  Depreciation                 21,824    23,565    73,510      91,041
  Amortization                  8,577    10,855    24,529      45,118
  Write-off of acquired
   in-process R&D                  --        --    17,600          --
  Interest expense             30,313    23,169   109,804     101,898
  Amortization of deferred
   financing fees                 958       762     6,461       4,272
  Other expense (income)        4,084     1,589     6,191       1,460
  Provision (benefit)
   for income taxes           (14,092)    2,405   (28,355)      1,715
  Cumulative effect of a
   change in accounting            --        --     3,580          --
                             --------  --------  --------  ----------
Net income (loss)            $ (4,872) $ 13,618  $(33,059)    $ 9,673
                             ========  ========  ========  ==========
  Amortization, net
   of income tax effect                  10,780                44,793
  Amortization of deferred
   financing fees                           762                 4,272
  Paid-in-kind dividend
   and accretion
   on preferred stock                    (1,267)               (4,828)
                                       --------            ----------
Adjusted earnings ("EBG")              $ 23,893              $ 53,910
                                       ========            ==========
Income per share:
  Basic - EBG                            $ 0.17                $ 0.43
  Diluted - EBG                          $ 0.17                $ 0.43
Weighted average shares
 outstanding:
  Basic                                 136,993               121,607
  Diluted                               140,769               125,893


                        VIASYSTEMS GROUP, INC.
            CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
                 (In thousands, except per share data)
                              (unaudited)

                           Three Months Ended   Twelve Months Ended
                              December 31,           December 31,
                          -------------------  ----------------------
                             1999      2000       1999        2000
                          ---------  --------  ----------  ----------
Net sales                  $354,449  $455,612  $1,293,370  $1,604,985
Operating expenses:
  Cost of goods sold        260,132   348,998     969,614   1,230,552
  Selling, general
   and administrative
   (including $110,070
   and $104,351 of
   non-cash charges
   in December 1999
   and March 2000,
   respectively)            147,146    30,651     232,653     225,611
  Depreciation and
   amortization              55,661    34,420     182,143     144,866
  Impairment loss           468,389        --     468,389          --
  Write-off of acquired
   in-process R&D                --        --      17,600          --
                          ---------  --------  ----------  ----------
    Operating income
     (loss)                (576,879)   41,543    (577,029)      3,956

Other expense:
  Interest expense           31,964    23,169     117,822     105,514
  Amortization of deferred
   financing fees             1,878       762       6,619       4,296
  Other                      19,864     1,589      23,594       1,857
                          ---------  --------  ----------  ----------
Income (loss) before
 income taxes and
 cumulative effect of a
 change in accounting
 and extraordinary item    (630,585)   16,023    (725,064)   (107,711)
Provision (benefit) for
 income taxes                 1,360     2,405     (23,212)     (2,923)
                          ---------  --------  ----------  ----------
Net income (loss) before
  cumulative effect of
  a change in accounting
  and extraordinary item   (631,945)   13,618    (701,852)   (104,788)
Cumulative effect of a
 change of accounting
 - write-off of start-up
 costs (net of income tax
 benefit of $6,734)              --        --      18,443          --
Extraordinary item - loss
 on early extinguishment
 of debt (net of income
 tax benefit of $0)              --        --          --      31,196
                          ---------  --------  ----------  ----------
Net income (loss)         $(631,945)  $13,618   $(720,295)  $(135,984)
                          =========  ========  ==========  ==========
Net income (loss) per share:
  Basic                      $(7.08)    $0.09     $(10.14)     $(1.13)
  Diluted                    $(7.49)    $0.09     $(10.77)     $(1.14)

Weighted average shares
 outstanding:
  Basic                      78,001   136,993      62,123     121,607
  Diluted                    84,466   140,769      67,238     123,259


                        VIASYSTEMS GROUP, INC.
                 CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
                            (In thousands)

                                           December 31,   December 31,
                                              1999           2000
                                           -----------    -----------

Current assets:
  Cash and cash equivalents                    $22,839        $45,676
  Accounts receivable, net                     236,455        320,561
  Inventories                                  176,125        255,973
  Prepaid and other                             51,010         70,922
                                           -----------    -----------
    Total current asses                        486,429        693,132
Property, plant and equipment                  482,144        452,621
Intangibles and other assets                   340,653        465,531
                                           -----------    -----------
    Total assets                            $1,309,226     $1,611,284
                                           ===========    ===========

Current liabilities:
  Current maturities of long-term
   obligations                                 $27,851        $23,882
  Accounts payable and accrued
   liabilities                                 321,195        405,896
  Income taxes payable                          25,163         22,759
                                           -----------    -----------
    Total current liabilities                  374,209        452,537
Long-term obligations                        1,334,672      1,000,435
Other long-term liabilities                     96,319         22,380
Equity                                        (495,974)       135,932
                                           -----------    -----------
    Total liabilities and
     stockholders' equity                   $1,309,226     $1,611,284
                                           ===========    ===========
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