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INDUS Holding AG: INDUS well positioned for the future: Continuing operations with 10 % sales growth and good profitability

EQS-News: INDUS Holding AG / Key word(s): Annual Report/Annual Results INDUS Holding AG: INDUS well positioned for the future: Continuing operations with 10 % sales growth and good profitability 23.03.2023 / 07:36 CET/CEST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. INDUS well positioned for the future: Continuing operations with 10 % sales growth and good profitability

• EBIT before impairment up EUR 8.4 million on previous year
• Earnings after taxes adversely affected by strongly negative result of the discontinued operations
• Proposed dividend of EUR 0.80 per share
• Positive outlook for 2023

Bergisch Gladbach, 23 March 2023 – INDUS Holding AG increased its sales in FY 2022 by 10.4% to EUR 1.80 billion (previous year: EUR 1.63 billion). The Group’s organic growth amounted to 8.3%. The new acquisitions made in 2022 (HEIBER + SCHRÖDER, HELD) and in 2021 (WIRUS, FLACO, TECALEMIT Inc.) already contributed 5.0% to growth. Inorganic growth, which also includes the shortfall in sales resulting from the sale of the WIESAUPLAST Group in late 2021, amounted to 2.1%. The P&L items of SMA as well as SCHÄFER and SELZER were reclassified into discontinued operations. The portfolio comprised 45 companies as at the reporting date.

At EUR 176.5 million, earnings before interest and taxes before impairment exceeded the previous year’s EUR 168.1 million. The EBIT margin before impairment losses reached 9.8% (previous year: 10.3%). In the financial year, non-cash impairment losses amounted to EUR 42.8 million. Therefore, EBIT stood at EUR 133.7 million (previous year: EUR 165.6 million), while the corresponding EBIT margin amounted to 7.4% (previous year: 10.1%). Earnings after taxes from continuing operations came in at EUR 72.9 million (previous year: EUR 97.8 million). Earnings of the discontinued operations comprise the earnings after taxes of SMA, SELZER and SCHÄFER and stood at EUR -123.9 million (previous year: EUR -50.2 million). Accordingly, the Group’s earnings after taxes were EUR -51 million (previous year: EUR 47.6 million).