October 2008 THE BIESSE GROUP IS NUMBER 1 IN EUROPE FOR INVESTOR RELATIONS IN THE “ENGINEERING AND MACHINERY” SECTOR “European Investor Relation” 2008 classification published by the research centre of American Institutional Investor Biesse, the company headed by Roberto Selci and listed on the STAR segment of the Italian Stock Exchange has received a highly prestigious award. The group from Pesaro has been awarded the accolade of “Most Improved Investor Relations” in Europe in the Engineering & Machinery sector for the effectiveness and efficiency of its communications with the financial community. Biesse was awarded this recognition by the authoritative American research centre of Institutional Investor which recently published its classification of the “European Investor Relations 2008” awards naming the European companies which received recognition. The classification was prepared following interviews with over 2,000 analysts, sector experts and institutional investors with European and International organisations. The interviewees were asked to nominate up to four listed companies according to each parameter utilised to evaluate the effectiveness of their financial communications. “Even though this news comes at a particularly difficult time for world financial markets and for Biesse, we are very happy to have satisfied the requirements of analysts and institutional investors to the extent that we have been placed at the top of a classification covering such a large field.” stated Alberto Amurri, Investor relations Manager of the Group. “Biesse has, especially in recent years, invested and dedicated specific resources to support its investor relations, increasing both the number of opportunities to meet with the financial community and the quality of its content in order to improve the image of the Company in all areas.”