As of 31 March 2010 and unchanged compared to 31 March 2009, approximately 31.6% of the shares were in free float, whereas the remaining approximately 68.4% were held by KAPSCH-Group Beteiligungs GmbH. As of 31 March 2010, no other shareholder held shares of Kapsch TrafficCom conferring voting rights in excess of 5%.
KAPSCH-Group Beteiligungs GmbH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of DATAX HandelsgmbH. In turn, the shares in DATAX HandelsgmbH are held in equal proportions by Traditio-Privatstiftung, ALUK-Privatstiftung and Children of Elisabeth-Privatstiftung, each a private trust under the Austrian Law for Private Trusts (Privatstiftungsgesetz). Each of these private trusts is managed by a separate executive board (Stiftungsvorstand) and no person serves on the executive board of more than one of the three private trusts. The beneficiaries of these private trusts are Georg Kapsch and members of his family (Traditio-Privatstiftung), Kari Kapsch and members of his family (ALUKPrivatstiftung) and Elisabeth Kapsch and members of her family (Children of Elisabeth-Privatstiftung).
According to information available to Kapsch TrafficCom AG, the company has a widely diversified shareholder structure. As part of the free float, a majority of investors are institutional investors from Anglo-Saxon countries, the U.K. and Ireland (25.0%) as well as North America (24.1%). 14.6% are held by Austrian institutional investors. Given that KAPSCH-Group Beteiligungs GmbH as principal shareholder holds 68.4% of the shares, the share of private investors totals 5.0% including the shares held by Erwin Toplak, the COO of Kapsch TrafficCom AG, whereas 21.3% are held by institutional investors (with the top ten in the aggregate holding 77.7% of that share) and 5.3% by other investors.