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The first-time consolidation of Swisslog contributed significantly to the Kuka Group's record order intake and sales in 2015. In addition to sales, Kuka was also able to significantly increase earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) by 39.8% from 185.3 million euros in the previous year to 259.1 million euros in the 2015 financial year. Excluding Swisslog, EBITDA amounted to EUR 234.6 million. The EBITDA margin in 2015 was therefore 8.7%, or 10.0% excluding Swisslog (2014: 8.9%). Excluding the purchase price allocation for Swisslog, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) amounted to EUR 194.3 million (2014: EUR 141.8 million). EBIT also includes book gains from the sale of the HLS Group and the toolmaking division in the low double-digit million euro range. In terms of earnings after tax, Kuka achieved 86.3 million euros at Group level (2014: 68.1 million euros). This corresponds to an increase of 26.7%.
