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Nemetschek Group Expands Leading Position in Massive and Strongly Growing 3D Animation Industry with Maxon's Acquisition of Pixologic

DGAP-News: Nemetschek SE / Key word(s): Takeover Nemetschek Group Expands Leading Position in Massive and Strongly Growing 3D Animation Industry with Maxon's Acquisition of Pixologic 12.01.2022 / 09:07 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Corporate News

Nemetschek Group Expands Leading Position in Massive and Strongly Growing 3D Animation Industry with Maxon's Acquisition of Pixologic

- Creators of Academy Award-winning sculpting and painting software ZBrush now part of Maxon family

- Enhanced portfolio puts Maxon in better position for exploiting huge market potential in 3D animation and enormous emerging Metaverse market

- Joint offering is paving the way to extensive new target groups

Munich / Friedrichsdorf, January 12, 2022 - The Nemetschek Group (ISIN DE 0006452907) today announced that its brand Maxon, a leading developer of professional 3D software solutions, has successfully closed the acquisition of Pixologic Inc., Los Angeles, USA. Pixologic are the creators of the Academy Award-winning sculpting and painting software ZBrush. The ZBrush team brings decades of 3D industry expertise to the Maxon organization and also enables Maxon to play an important role in the huge, rapidly growing gaming industry.

ZBrush is used by respected film studios, game developers, designers, advertisers, and illustrators around the world. The industry's top creatives have employed ZBrush for a number of notable movies, such as Dune, Star Wars, Avatar, Game of Thrones and many more. Pixologic is a fast-growing and highly profitable company with an operating margin above the Nemetschek Group average.

After the successful integrations of Redshift and Red Giant, this acquisition is a perfect and logical strategic move that substantially completes Maxon's product line with 3D sculpting and painting expertise. It also firmly positions the company as an industry leader for providing superior creative tools to digital artists to the dynamically growing, €16 billion 3D animation market.