Wendel : Press release, April 28, 2022 – Q1 Trading update

PRESS RELEASE - APRIL 28, 2022

Q1 2022 Trading update

Good start of the year across portfolio

Q1 2022 consolidated net sales: €2,007.2 million, up 14.9% overall and up 9.9% organically year-on-year

• • Strong growth across portfolio in Q1 2022

• • Double digit organic growth for ACAMS, CPI, Constantia Flexibles and Tarkett

• • Strong organic growth for Bureau Veritas (+8.0%) and Stahl (+5.0%)

• • Positive FX impacts across the portfolio (+2.9% consolidated)

Net asset value as of March 31, 2022: €7,420 million or €165.8 per share, down 1% vs. March 31, 2021 (€167.4 per share) and down 11.9% YTD (€188.1), impacted by market fall

Active portfolio rotation and capital deployment since the start of 2022

•  Disposal of Cromology closed on January 21, 2022, generating €896 million in proceeds for Wendel

•  c.€3041 million equity invested to acquire ACAMS on March 10, 2022

•  Wendel Lab: €30.5 million new commitments in Q1 2022 bringing the total to €145 million

•  €15 million of Wendel shares bought back in Q1 2022

Strong financial structure

• • Successful issue of €300 million 12-year bond at 1.375% coupon on January 16, 2022

• • LTV ratio of 5.8% as of March 31, 2022

• • Further optimization of the cost and maturity of Wendel's debt: exercise on April 19, 2022, of the make-whole redemption of bonds maturing in October 2024, resulting in an average maturity extended to 7.12 years and an average weighted cost lowered to 1.7%

• • Pro forma total liquidity of €1.7 billion3 as of March 31, 2022, including €960 million of cash and €750 million available under the committed credit facility (fully undrawn)

• 1 c. $338 million at 1.112 EURUSD

• 2 As of March 31, 2022

• 3 Proforma the early repayment in whole of the bond maturing in October 2024, achieved on April 19, 2022

Return to shareholders and 2021 Dividend

• • Wendel to cancel 377,323 of its treasury shares (0.84% of the share capital) on April 29, 2022. Cancellation of these shares will have a pro forma positive impact of +€0.7/share on the March 31, 2022's NAV due to the current significant share discount to NAV. Following the cancellation, the number of outstanding shares will be 44,370,620.

• • Ordinary dividend of €3.0 per share for 2021, up 3.4%, to be proposed at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting on June 16, 2022, representing a yield of 2.85%1 .

André François-Poncet, Wendel Group CEO, commented:

"The first quarter of 2022 confirmed the overall organic trends observed at the end of last year in sales across our portfolio. This strong growth comes with challenging conditions regarding raw materials availability and price, but our companies have clearly shown their ability to adapt to fast changing environments. Our net asset value has been quite resilient, despite the first quarter stock market turmoil, and we opportunistically took advantage of the sizeable discount to NAV to buy back some Wendel shares.

We have continued our objective of capital redeployment in line with our roadmap with the acquisition of ACAMS which further enhances the growth profile of our portfolio, following the acquisition of CPI. This transaction was creative, illustrating our team's ability to carry out complex projects as the buyer of choice.

As we look forward, our robust balance sheet with relatively little corporate and portfolio company leverage overall and our long-term perspective should allow us to continue to execute our roadmap capitalizing on acquisition opportunities which will likely result from current volatile circumstances."

1 Based on Wendel's share price of €105.4 as of December 31, 2021

Q1 2022 sales of Group companies

Q1 2022 consolidated sales

(in millions of euros)	Q1 2021	Q1 2022	Δ	Organic Δ
Bureau Veritas	1,154.7	1,290.1	+11.7%	+8.0%
Constantia Flexibles	366.7	464.2	+26.6%	+17.8%
Stahl	210.1	224.9	+7.0%	+5.0%
Crisis Prevention Institute	15.3	20.8	+35.8%	+27.2%
ACAMS(1)	n.a	7.2	n.a	n.a
Consolidated net sales(2)	1,746.9	2,007.2	+14.9%	+9.9%

• (1) ACAMS accounts have been consolidated since March 11, 2022.

• (2) Comparable sales for Q1 2021 represent €1,746.9m vs. 2021 published sales of €1,912.8m. The difference of c. €166.0m corresponds to Cromology group, classified as asset held for sale in accordance with IFRS 5. The contribution of this portfolio company has been reclassified in "Net income from discontinued operations and operations held for sale" since November 2021. Cromology was sold by the Group beginning of 2022.

Q1 2022 sales of equity accounted companies

(in millions of euros)	Q1 2021	Q1 2022	Δ	Organic Δ
Tarkett	558.8	684.7	+22.5%	+19.2%
Sales of Group companies

Bureau Veritas - Strong organic revenue growth in the first quarter of 2022; Solid 2022 outlook confirmed

(full consolidation)

Bureau Veritas' revenue in the first quarter of 2022 amounted to €1,290.1 million, a 11.7% increase compared with Q1 2021. Organic growth was 8.0%, compared to a 2.5% increase in the last quarter of 2021 and benefited from a catch-up effect following the cyber-attack which occurred in Q4 2021.

Three businesses delivered strong organic growth, Industry 11.9%, Agri-Food & Commodities 9.5%, and Buildings & Infrastructure 7.1%. The rest of the portfolio saw mid-single-digit growth, with Marine & Offshore, up 6.5% organically, Consumer Products up 4.6% and Certification up 4.0%.

By geography, activities in Americas strongly outperformed the rest of Bureau Veritas (26% of revenue; up 17.1% organically), led by a 10.0% increase in North America (Buildings & Infrastructure driven) and by a 29.7% increase in Latin America (led by Brazil notably). The activity in Asia Pacific (29% of revenue; up 4.5% organically) benefited from robust growth in China and in Australia as well as strong growth in India. Europe (36% of revenue; up 3.9% organically) was led by robust performance in France, strong growth in Italy and the Netherlands. Finally, in Africa and the Middle East (9% of revenue), business increased by 13.9% on an organic basis, essentially driven by Buildings & Infrastructure and energy projects in the Middle East.

The scope effect was a positive 0.5%, reflecting bolt-on acquisitions realized in the past few quarters. Currency fluctuations had a positive impact of 3.2%, mainly due to the appreciation of the USD and pegged currencies against the euro, which was partly offset by the depreciation of some emerging countries' currencies.

2022 outlook confirmed:

Based on a healthy sales pipeline and the significant growth opportunities related to Sustainability, and assuming there are no severe lockdowns in its main countries of operation due to Covid-19, for the full year 2022, Bureau Veritas still expects to:

• • Achieve strong organic revenue growth; mid-single-digit organic revenue growth;

• • Improve the adjusted operating margin;

• • Generate sustained strong cash flow with a cash conversion1 above 90%.

For more information:https://group.bureauveritas.com

Constantia Flexibles -Record organic growth of 17.8% mostly driven by price increases, to compensate input cost inflation, as well as robust volume growth

(full consolidation)

Q1 2022 sales totaled €464.2 million, up 26.6% compared with Q1 2021 (€366.7 million). Constantia's sales were up by 17.8% organically over the period, driven mostly by waves of price increases to compensate for the inflationary pressure input costs, notably raw materials and energy. It is worth noting that Q1 2022 has marked an encouraging return to organic volume growth, confirming the good momentum instilled by the new management team's commercial initiatives. However, the market in India remains very challenging and management is reviewing several options for this division in order to address the challenges there.

Consumer market revenues grew organically by 20.0% driven by price increases and volume growth, notably in snacks and baked goods. The Pharma division posted +11.5% organic growth driven mainly by prices. Q1 2022 is not completely comparable with Q1 2021, benefiting from the acquisition of Propak in June 2021 (impact of +6.8%). The quarter is also positively impacted by favorable FX (+2.0%).

Constantia is carefully managing the inflationary cost environment as well as the availability of raw materials, particularly aluminum, focusing its efforts on preserving the profitability of the company working both on the passthrough of input costs as well as pursuing its cost control program.

On the sustainability front, Constantia is actively developing and promoting its Ecolutions portfolio in line with the industry transformation towards recyclable packaging. With the above-mentioned Propak acquisition, Constantia has resumed acquisitions in the fragmented and consolidating flexible packaging market and is actively reviewing a number of bolt-on opportunities.

1 Net cash generated from operating activities/Adjusted Operating Profit

Stahl - Sales up 7.0 % in Q1 2022, with organic growth of 5.0%

(full consolidation)

Stahl, the world leader in coating layers and surface treatments for flexible materials, posted total sales of €224.9 million in Q1 2022, representing an increase of +7.0% versus Q1 2021. Organic growth stood at +5.0% over the quarter while FX was positive (+2.0%).

Activity over the first quarter of the year was above expectations at group level, with a strong performance in Performance Coatings offsetting lower than expected volumes in Leather Chemicals. Across all segments, price increases were implemented at the beginning of the year to mitigate the strong impact of rising input costs. Management continues to closely monitor the inflationary environment and is ready to take additional measures to protect its margin where needed.

Orderbook increased in Q1 2022, and is close to the all-time high, as new intakes remained solid in volumes and benefited from price increases measures. This gives good visibility on the topline performance in Q2 2022.

Crisis Prevention Institute - Revenue growth of +26.4% as compared with Q1 2021, a result of ongoing demand for new Certified Instructors and successful new programs

(full consolidation)

Crisis Prevention Institute recorded first quarter 2022 revenue of $23.4 million, up +26.4% vs. Q1 2021. Of this increase, +27.2% was organic growth, offset by -0.8% impact from FX movements. Despite the Omicron COVID surge in early 2022, CPI continued to see volume growth in new Certified Instructors (CIs) and uptake of new program launches, like Special Topics. Growth was tempered by COVID-related delays of onsite programs (which were rescheduled into Q2 2022), but compared to Q1 2021, the number of affected programs were less, as the previous year's Q1 experienced more widespread COVID restrictions.

CPI continues to enjoy a mix shift toward digital solutions for both new CIs and renewals, with programs retaining the required in-person components. Virtual Learner Materials continued to expand in the share of delivery representing 45% of Learner Materials sales and 34% of total Learner Material volumes, above the 30% and 11% volume levels in 2020 and 2019.

ACAMS - Strong start to the year for ACAMS, with year-to-date revenue growth of +31.2%

(full consolidation since March 11, 2022)

ACAMS, the global leader in training and certifications for anti-money laundering and financial-crime prevention professionals, generated total revenue of $24.8 million, up 31.2% vs. Q1 2021. Certifications, Memberships, and Training sales each grew at double-digit rates vs. Q1 2021. Conferences generated the highest growth of any segment as a result of both a return to in-person events with growing attendance and also a timing benefit as ACAMS' second-largest conference took place in Q1 2022, while the previous year's event was held in Q2 2021. Organic growth for the quarter ending in March was 31.0%, and the impact of foreign exchange was 0.2%.

Wendel completed the acquisition of ACAMS on March 10, 2022.