Esprinet: confirmed as a Great Place to Work® in Italy, certification obtained in Spain and Portugal

ESPRINET: CONFIRMED AS A GREAT PLACE TO WORK® IN ITALY,

CERTIFICATION OBTAINED IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

Strengths highlighted by employees: sense of belonging, work-life balance, quality of the work

environment

Vimercate (Monza Brianza) - Madrid - Porto, 04 October 2021 - ESPRINET (PRT:IM), a leader in Southern Europe in the distribution of IT, Consumer Electronics and Advanced Solutions, has received the certification Great Place to Work® Certified Company awarded by the Great Place to Work® Institute, an international research, consultancy and training company that has rewarded the best companies to work for in Italy and in the world. The recognition is a confirmation of excellence for the Group's Italian companies, while the Group's Spanish and Portuguese companies have received it for the first time.

Esprinet has again been considered an excellent workplace this year. This is the opinion of 81% of employees within the Group, confirming the company's priority of ensuring the satisfaction and well- being of its people. The Trust Index©, which is the indicator that measures the level of trust based on the relationship with management, collaboration with colleagues and pride in their work, reached 84% in Italy (an improvement of 11% compared to 2020), 70% in Spain and 86% in Portugal.

The people who work for the Esprinet Group especially recognise and appreciate the company for its professional training courses. 90% confirm that they have the resources they need to do their best work. In this regard, among the great deal of feedback provided, the following was emphasised: "...I believe the training tool is a company plus, as it allows us to balance work commitments while letting us personally schedule our own tasks so we can take any type of course, both live and offline...".

The excellent corporate climate was also highlighted, in addition to the organisational culture based on shared values and employee benefits initiatives to promote work-life balance (acknowledged by 86% in Italy, a net increase compared to 68% the previous year).

Ettore Sorace, HR Manager of the Esprinet Group, said, "The path taken a few years ago to improve the well-being of our people and make our company a better place day after day is now providing excellent results. Being awarded with the Great Place to Work® Certification makes us proud and represents a further incentive for us to constantly do better. Our people and their valuable skills are the future of the company and the driver for achieving new and increasingly important goals".

All the results for 2021 were excellent in Italy, even more so when compared to 2020. In fact, there has been improvement in both the sense of cohesion (from 70% to 81%) and pride (83%, +7% compared to 2020). Many comments highlighted how proud employees feel to be part of the Esprinet team: "... Despite being a large and established company on the market, there has never been a lack of desire to grow and improve and there has never been a lack of attention to people...", and also: "...

It is a company that makes you feel like it needs your contribution and your commitment to improve as a company and always be the best in its field. (…) I'm proud to have the opportunity to work at Esprinet and to continue to do so for a long time. I have found my place here, I hope to always show that I can live up to this job...".

Esprinet has received positive support in the Iberian market as well, so much so that 73% of employees in Spain and 89% in Portugal are proud to work in a company that is so attentive to their well-being. As Sorace noted, "We are a pool of companies that care about the overall satisfaction of their workers with a series of initiatives that aim to strengthen a sense of belonging and quality of the work environment. Furthermore, as a company established in Italy, we are even more proud to have collected equally positive feedback from our key markets, such as Spain and Portugal, obtaining the Great Place to Work® certification the very first year it was sought there".

Esprinet (PRT:IM - ISIN IT0003850929), with around 1,600 employees and 4.5 billion euro in turnover in 2020, is the leading company in Southern Europe (Italy, Spain and Portugal) in the distribution of Information Technology and Consumer Electronics to IT resellers, VARs, System Integrators, specialised stores, retailers and e-commerce portals, as well as the fourth largest distributor in Europe and in the top 10 at global level. The Group's vision is to simplify life for people and organisations by expanding and facilitating the distribution and use of technology. Enabling your tech experience is the payoff that synthesises the evolution of the company into a genuine technology services hub that enables the use of technology.

The Group supplies roughly 130,000 products (PCs, printers, accessories, software, cloud products, datacentres & cybersecurity, smartphones, audio-video, TV, gaming, household appliances, electric mobility) from more than 650 manufacturers to 31,000 business and consumer resellers through multiple sales models, both self-service(best-in- class e-commerce platform and Cash & Carry stores) and assisted service (tele-sales and system engineers in the field).

In addition to providing traditional wholesaling services (bulk breaking and credit), Esprinet fulfils the role of simplifier of the use of technology. The Group offers, for example, a turnkey e-commerceplatform to hundreds of resellers, in-shop management for thousands of retail sales points, and specialised payment and financing solutions for the resellers community, by also offering the generation of demand by end users and big data analysis to the main technology manufacturers and resellers who outsource marketing activities increasingly more frequently.

Cloud services, collaboration software, video-conference systems, advanced IT infrastructures and specialised consumer electronics solutions, such as connected household appliances or gaming platforms, are the new areas of growth with added value that fuel further future growth in revenues for the sector, while logistics and financial services, as well as the "pay-per-use" sales model, offer increased opportunities for margin growth.

The widespread use of technology and the need for quicker and simpler methods to make increasingly more complex and diversified technologies available for people and companies pave the way for further improvements in the scenarios of the technology distribution industry.

CONTACT DETAILS

ESPRINET S.p.A.

Paola Bramati

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Barabino & Partners - Italy

Linda Battini

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Barabino & Partners UK (Spain)

Tel.: [phone] Giuliana Patrone [e-mail]