Mortsel (Belgium) - January 5, 2004 - Agfa-Gevaert announces today that it has reached an agreement with Barco to acquire the assets and all staff of dotrix NV, a Belgian based company which develops, manufactures and sells digital colour printing solutions for industrial applications. The price of the transaction is around 6 million Euros.

On 1 July 2004, Bruce Blythe, Regional Director of Finance for ASPAC, became Managing Director Oceania after the retirement of former MD, Gerry Paulusz.

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