Prima Industrie : Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting April 15-16th 2019

BORSA ITALIANA - STAR segment

PRESS RELEASE

THE ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS 'MEETING HAS:

•APPROVED THE COMPANY 2018 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

•AKNOWLEDGED THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS CLOSING WITH A NET PROFIT OF 24.1 MILLION EURO

•RESOLVED A DIVIDEND OF EURO 0.44 PER SHARE

•APPOINTED THE STATUTORY AUDITORS' COMMITTEE FOR THE YEARS 2019-2021

•AUTHORIZED THE PURCHASE OF TREASURY STOCK (for a maximum of 300,000 shares)

Collegno (TO), April 16th, 2019 - The Shareholders' Meeting of Prima Industrie S.p.A, a company leader in high technology laser systems, sheet metal working systems and electronic components for industrial applications, met today in its ordinary session and approved the parent company Prima Industrie S.p.A. financial statements at 31/12/2018 which close with a net profit of Euro 4,423,969 and resolved to:

•allocate to Legal Reserve a share of the mentioned net profit, equal to euro 221,198;

•distribute as ordinary dividend, the residual euro 4,202,771 of the aforementioned profit, as well as euro 365,870 of undistributed retained earnings previously accrued to Extraordinary Reserve, equal to an overall unit dividend of euro 0.44 for each of the shares that will be outstanding as of the coupon detachment date, excluding own shares held on that date. The total value of the amount of dividends, taking into account the shares currently in circulation (No. 10,383,274), is

equal to euro 4,568,641.

The payment of the dividend will take place starting from 22/05/2019 (ex-dividend date 20/05/2019 and record date 21/05/2019).

The Shareholders' Meeting has also:

•Acknowledged the Group results at 31/12/2018, which recorded a consolidated turnover of 466.9 million euro, EBITDA of 45.1 million euro, EBT of 28.0 million euro and Group net profit of 24.1 million euro.

∙ Approved, pursuant to article 123-ter, paragraph 6 in Law Decree 58/1998, Section I of the Report on Remuneration prepared by the directors and containing the company policy about the remuneration of the members of the Board, General Manager and other Managers with strategic responsibilities as well as the procedures used in order to adopt and implement such policy.

∙Appointed the new Statutory Auditors' Committee, composed by Franco Nada, Chairman (elected in the minority list), Roberto Petrignani and Maura Campra; Gaetana Laselva and Roberto Coda have been appointed as deputy auditors; the Committee will be in office for the fiscal years 2019, 2020 and 2021. The curricula and other information relating to the newly elected auditors are posted on the company websitehttps://www.primaindustrie.com/it/information-for-the-shareholders/.

∙Authorized the purchase, in one or more times, for a period of eighteen months, of ordinary shares of Prima Industrie S.p.A. for a maximum number of shares equal to 300,000 and in any case for a maximum of 300,000 treasury shares in portfolio, for a maximum purchase value equal

to 7.5 million euro, authorizing, starting from now, the disposal of treasury shares, in one or more times, without time limits, in the manner deemed most appropriate in the interest of the Company and in compliance with applicable law.

The scope of the authorization includes the possibility to assign the shares to service the stock incentive plans in favor of directors, employees and collaborators of the company or group companies, or the use for free assignments to the shareholders, or to service extraordinary transactions or as an instrument to support market liquidity.

Purchases will be made on regulated stock markets according to the operating procedures established in the regulations for the organization and management of the same markets according to the operating procedures established in the regulation of Borsa Italiana S.p.A., in compliance with art. 144 bis, paragraph 1, lett. b) of the Consob Regulation no. 11971/99 and subsequent amendments.

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"The manager responsible for preparing the company's financial reports, Davide Danieli, declares, pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 154-bis of the Consolidated Law on Finance, that the accounting information contained in this press release corresponds to the document results, books and accounting records".

PRIMA INDUSTRIE heads a leading Group in developing, manufacturing and marketing of laser systems for industrial applications, sheet metal processing machinery, as well as industrial electronics and laser technologies.

The parent company Prima Industrie S.p.A. is listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since 1999 (MTA- STAR segment).

With 40 years of experience the Group can count on about 13,000 machines installed in more than 80 countries worldwide and is among the main worldwide manufacturers in its own reference market.

The Group has about 1,800 employees and manufacturing sites in Italy (PRIMA INDUSTRIE S.p.A, PRIMA ELECTRO S.p.A), Finland (FINN-POWER Oy), USA (Convergent Photonics Llc, PRIMA POWER LASERDYNE Llc.) and China (PRIMA POWER SUZHOU Co. Ltd.). Remarkable is as well its direct commercial and after-sales presence in BRIC, NAFTA, European Union and other emerging Asian countries.

The Prima Industrie Group is structured on 3 Business Units:

Laser and sheet metal processing machines (Prima Power):including design, manufacturing and marketing of:

-Laser machines for cutting, welding and drilling of 3D and 2D components.

-Machines for sheet metal treatment by means of mechanical tools (punching machines, combined punching/shearing systems, combined punching/laser cutting systems, panel benders and automation systems).

Industrial electronics and laser technologies (Prima Electro):including development, manufacturing and marketing of power and control electronics, and of high-powerlaser sources for industrial applications, destined both to the Group machines and to third parties.

Additive Manufacturing (Prima Additive):dedicated to the design, production and marketing of turnkey solutions for the main technologies in the field of Additive Manufacturing; Prima Additive's product range includes both Additive Manufacturing technologies: Powder Bed Fusion - PBF (powder bed fusion) and Direct Metal Deposition - DMD (direct deposition of metals), as well as the related application support and services.

For further information:

PRIMA INDUSTRIE S.p.A.	Studio Mailander
Chiara Roncolini	Ufficio Stampa
Investor Relator	tel. [phone]
tel. [phone]	Bruno Caprioli
[e-mail]	335 5901402	- [e-mail]
	Carlo Dotta
	333 2306748	[e-mail]