Dear Colleagues and Business Partners,

With the beginning of the New Year the ALUKOV HZ company decided to give itself an attractive gift: a revised corporate logo! Since having founded ALUKOV HZ 15 years ago and after 5 years of successful operation of its IPC E.E.I.G. distribution network, it was time to update and revamp. The graphics of the new logo are simpler and crisper. It is more easily "readable", i.e. easy to visually remember and recognize, while being both timeless and versatile; its airy lightness is retained.

The dominant graphic element remains the red arch, which symbolizes our product and company philosophy : a sheltering roof, as well as the company’s membership in the global IPC Team network. The same adjustments were also made to the IPC Team logo itself.

The colors comprising the logos represent the following:
Red — It is an extremely stimulating and active color which yields energy and awakens one’s lifeblood. It stands for deep emotions and is thus the color of passion, love, courage, but also of will.
Blue — It is a calming yet inspiring element. Along with placidness, prudence, trust and empathy are evoked.
Blue-grey — A perfect color to symbolize harmonious neutrality, confidentiality and the willingness to compromise.

This overall change, which corresponds to a global trend of uniting graphics and fonts to create new and strong corporate logos, is further designed to be more applicable to diversive PR campaigns, promotional materials and in the use of such modern technologies as laser, embroidery, plotter-cutting, etc. Lastly, these logos come visually across well in all these support types with good legibility throughout — even in small sizes.

Technical specification of the used colors:

Examples of the logos:

Best Regards,
Your IPC Team staff

On Saturday July 3rd 2010 the regular annual general meeting of registered members of the European economic alliance Inter Pool Cover Team (IPC Team E.H.Z.S.) was held in the company’s headquarters in Orel.

The festive atmosphere of the meeting was enhanced by the fact that this year IPC Team is celebrating its 5th prosperous anniversary and the founding parent company, Alukov HZ, is celebrating a grand 15 years of existence. The meeting unanimously approved the financial statement for 2009 and the economic budget for 2010. It was also announced that despite the tough economic situation in 2009 and 2010, the group as a whole had managed to meet its ambitious trade and financial targets, particularly as a result of the group’s emphasis on innovation and the use of the very latest technology. Recently advanced swimming pool and spa roofing technology and designs have been launched onto the market. By expanding our range of products and continuously focusing on innovation of our own designs we have managed to reach more customers and also expand our own dealership network in many countries around the world.

At the meeting it was apparent that the individual members of the IPC Team have been relatively fast in carrying out the ancillary development tasks assigned to them in relation to web-marketing and the implementation of unique G.O.A.L. (Global Online Application List) internet projects.

The General Meeting unanimously confirmed the managerial positions of Mr Jan Zitek — President and Mr Wieslawa Rygielski — Vice-president. The GM also decided to appoint a more streamlined group management body referred to as "Corporate Governance". This is a team of top managers who will specialise in the following strategic spheres of management:

Corporate Governance

Board of Directors
Jan Zitko — President, CEO
Wieslaw Rygielski — Vice-President
Marcel Krou?il — Managing Director

Non-Executive Directors Board
Christophe Provost — Chairman, CEO, Piscine Conseils France
Karl Adriana Jozef Lauwers — Vice-Chairman, CEO, Stalwart (Axess) Benelux
William Freis — CEO, Termatec Scandinavia
Uro? ?ivkovi? — CEO, Aquanova group, South Europe
Alad?r B?d?k — CEO, Aluprodukt group, SouthEast Europe
Jind?ich Z?humensk? — CEO, Alukov Slovakia
Alicijan Kviatkovski — Director, Okva, Lithuania

Board of advisors
Uwe Glup — Germany national manager, Alukov HZ
Alexey Shigaev — CEO, Polikarp, Moscow
Judr. Pavel Koukal — external attorney, Associate partner — R?dl & Partner, v.o.s.
Pavel Tu?ek — Director, Business Department Alukov HZ
Josef ?ump?k — Director, Technical Department Alukov HZ
Ctibor Juchelka — Austria national manager, Alukov HZ

The individual members of the IPC Team rated the preliminary operating results and the six months of work very highly and said they were convinced that, despite all the problems, overall 2010 will be a successful year for the alliance!

Your IPC TEAM staff

Dear business partners,

It is our pleasure to announce you that the Annual General Meeting of IPC Team E.E.I.G takes place on July 3rd, 2010 — Alukov premises in Orel. 16 registered members of this economic interest grouping will evaluate the last 2009 year, will elect the top management of the grouping and will discuss both current and future business strategies and cooperation platforms.

Your IPC Team staff

Dear business partners and customers,

it is our pleasure to inform you that 2 new web applications are running:

1. The website of a new business concept 3Seasons^TM (http://3seasons.cz/en/ ) — this application is available in 4 languages (English, German, Russian and Czech). You can find there an attractive design, a photogallery of the 3Seasons enclosures, business contacts and much more.

3Seasons — catalogue of enclosures

2. A new webpresentation of IPC Team E.E.I.G. (http://www.poolcover-ipc.com/) — it is available in a new design and 2 languages in English and in Czech. This application has the same purpose as in the past — to be a "gate" into the world of IPC Team enclosures. It will provide you with a plenty of photos and various information.

IPC Team — home page

Additionally we would like to announce you that we are going to update your national IPC Team websites within next 2 days in terms of a new 3Seasons^TM banner, your partner sites (links) and a new footer cross-linking all IPC Team websites. We would kindly like to ask you for the translation of the texts into your national language.

We believe that all these changes will help you and your customers

We are looking forward to your comments
Your IPC Team staff

You can find our company Gidromontazh at the fair AquaTherm Kiev in 12.-15.May 2010.

We will be pleased to meet you at our stand.

Your Gidromontazh staff