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Kontron AG and Ennoconn Corporation enter Strategic Partnership - Seite 2

enable us to integrate core competencies of branding, manufacturing, global
operations and logistics," says Steve Chu, Ennoconn's CEO. "The partnership
will lead both Kontron and Ennoconn to becoming a powerful provider of
embedded solutions and strategically important player in the IoT market."

Boosting Kontron's growth prospects

Kontron's Communication business has been facing a significant shift from
hardware towards SDN (software-defined networks). As a
result, this market has seen declining profitability and industry
consolidation. Kontron started to respond to this challenge as early as
2013 and the strategic partnership with Ennoconn announced today is the
next step in this response. The partnership will be in a strong position to
serve the hard- and software requirements of the SDN market in the future,
and will boost Kontron's efforts to implement the strategic initiative
announced at its Capital Markets Day in May 2015, to develop a first-class
software/middleware offering.

Moreover, Ennoconn will provide production and supply chain efficiencies
tailored to the market, and ODM capabilities to rapidly bring standard or
customized hardware building blocks to production. Kontron brings
application-specific solutions built on expertise in firmware, system
management, virtualization, and integration of these with the hardware.
Matched with Kontron's market and application know-how as well as its
customer relationships, the cooperation with Ennoconn will accelerate
development and deployment of application-specific solutions.

Kontron already subcontracts about 10% of its board-production to Ennoconn,
a level of collaboration which will widen and deepen as a result of the
partnership: closer cooperation is also envisaged in the context of the two
companies' R&D, procurement, production and global logistics activities, as
well as brand distribution, marketing and channel development efforts with
a major focus on China. Kontron also plans to leverage Ennoconn's
significant competitive advantages in terms of time-to-market, cost
efficiency and product quality.



For further information:
Alexandra Habekost
Head of Investor Relations
Kontron AG
Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]

Chari Lazaridis
Head of Global Corporate Communications
Kontron AG
Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]



About Kontron
Kontron, a global leader in embedded computing technology and trusted
advisor in IoT, provides a complete and integrated portfolio of hardware,
software and services. Kontron creates many of the standards that drive the
world's embedded computing platforms, bringing to life numerous
technologies and applications. The result is an accelerated time-to-market,
reduced total-cost-of-ownership, product longevity and the best possible
overall application with leading-edge, highest reliability embedded
technology.
Kontron is a listed company. Its shares are traded in the Prime Standard
segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on other exchanges under the
symbol "KBC".
For more information, please visit: www.kontron.com


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Language: English
Company: Kontron AG
Lise-Meitner-Straße 3-5
86156 Augsburg
Germany
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Internet: www.kontron.com
ISIN: DE0006053952
WKN: 605395
Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated
Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover,
Munich, Stuttgart


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