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Make-up of the edding Group Management Board to change: from 1st June, female representation will rise to 50%

EQS-News: edding Aktiengesellschaft / Key word(s): Personnel Make-up of the edding Group Management Board to change: from 1st June, female representation will rise to 50% 18.04.2024 / 17:11 CET/CEST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. The Management Board of the edding Group is set to change on 1st June 2024.

• Sönke Gooss (CFO) and Thorsten Streppelhoff (CBO) to leave the edding Group before the end of their tenure
• CFO role to be filled by Hadewych Vermunt
• CBO role to be shared between the CFO, CDO and CEO
• New Management Board to comprise four members: two women and two men

Sönke Gooss (CFO) to leave the edding Group – New CFO from 1^st June 2024 will be a woman

The Management Board of the edding Group is set to change on 1^st June 2024. Sönke Gooss, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the edding Group since 2004, has decided to leave the company before his tenure ends and to focus fully on his voluntary church work. To ensure an immediate handover, the Supervisory Board has appointed Hadewych Vermunt, formerly CFO at Delhaize in Belgium, to the Management Board from 1^st June 2024.

“We’re delighted to be able to welcome Hadewych Vermunt as CFO of the edding Group from 1^st June”, confirms Michael Rauch, Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of edding AG. “Hadewych is a Dutch financial expert with extensive experience in leading financial roles in consumer goods companies as well as in retail in Europe and Asia – from Unilever to her most recent CFO role at Delhaize in Belgium. What was particularly important to us during the recruitment process was to find a CFO who shared our profit-for strategy – where profit is not the ultimate goal, but the means with which companies can exercise social and corporate responsibility. For Hadewych Vermunt, not only is this a deeply held conviction, it was also the key reason for joining the edding Group.”