M1 Kliniken AG expanded market leadership in the field of beauty medicine and starts international expansion. The company has continued its profitable growth course in 2018 and invested considerably in further growth. In the M1 specialist centres, the number of treatments performed in the 2018 financial year was increased to just under 190,000. The strong growth is attributable in particular to existing and new locations of M1 Med Beauty. After six new openings in 2017, seven locations were added in 2018 (in Frankfurt and Cologne, the company moved to larger premises). M1 Med Beauty thus had 24 specialist centres in 19 cities at the end of the year. These include the first international specialist centre in Vienna. M1 also has considerable growth opportunities in Germany. In addition to new locations of the core brand "M1 Med Beauty", the new brands "M1 Laser" and "M1 Dental" will contribute to this in the future. With them, M1 is expanding its range of services to include dermatological laser and aesthetic dental treatments. In Germany alone, around 12 million cosmetic laser treatments are carried out annually and the market volume for dental aesthetics is estimated at around 3.0 billion euros. Since M1 Laser will be integrated into the existing beauty locations, growth will be fast and cost-efficient. At the end of the first quarter of 2019, laser treatments were already available at nine M1 Med Beauty locations and are to be offered successively in all specialist centres. Following the opening of the first treatment centre for aesthetic dentistry in 2018 within the M1 Schlossklinik in Berlin, M1 Dental locations in bMunich, Frankfurt and Hamburg have now been added. The scope of the activities required to prepare the consolidated financial statements of M1 Kliniken AG has increased significantly due to the rapid growth of the group of companies last year.