BORSA ITALIANA - STAR segment

PRESS RELEASE

THE ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING:

  • APPROVED THE 2021 COMPANY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

  • AKNOWLEDGED THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, SHOWING A NET PROFIT OF 8.0 MILLION EURO

  • RESOLVED A DIVIDEND OF 0.40 EURO PER SHARE

  • EXPRESSED ITS FAVORABLE OPINION ON THE SECOND SECTION OF THE REPORT ON THE REMUNERATION POLICY AND THE FEES PAID

  • AUTHORIZED THE PURCHASE OF TREASURY STOCKS (for a maximum of 100,000 shares)

  • APPOINTED THE BOARD OF STATUTORY AUDITORS FOR THE THREE YEAR PERIOD 2022-2024

Collegno (TO), April 28, 2022 - The Shareholders' Meeting of Prima Industrie S.p.A, a company leader in high-technology laser systems, sheet metal processing systems and electronic components for industrial applications, met today under ordinary session and approved the company's financial statements and presented the consolidated financial statements as of 31/12/2021, showing consolidated sales for 407.6 million euro, EBITDA of 33.4 million euro, EBIT of 14.2 million euro and a net result of 8.0 million euro.

The financial statements of the parent company Prima Industrie S.p.A. as at 31/12/2021 show a loss of euro 3,622,760, which the Shareholders' meeting has resolved to cover through the employment of the extraordinary reserve.

The Shareholders' Meeting also resolved to distribute retained profits previously accrued to Extraordinary Reserve, corresponding to a total dividend of euro 0.40 per share for those shares which will be outstanding at the ex-dividend date, excluding the treasury shares held at that date. The total amount of dividends, on the base of the outstanding shares as of today (10,312,827 shares) is estimated in euro 4,125,130.80.

The dividend payment will take place as follows:

•23/05/2022: Ex-Dividend Date •24/05/2022: Record Date •25/05/2022: Payment Date

The Shareholders' Meeting has also:

  • Expressed a favourable voting (non-binding), pursuant to art. 123-ter, para. 6 of the TUF, on the Section Two of the Report on remuneration policy and fees paid.

  • Authorized, upon revoking the resolution adopted on 20/04/21, the purchase and sale, in one or more times, for a period of eighteen months, of Prima Industrie S.p.A. ordinary shares for a maximum number of 100,000 shares, i.e. for a maximum purchase value of 3 million euro, authorizing as from now on the disposal of treasury stocks, in one or more times, without time limits, in the ways deemed most appropriate in the interest of the Company and in compliance with the applicable law.

    The purchases will be made with the modalities pursuant to Article 144-bis, para. 1, letter b) and para. 1-bis, of the Issuers' Regulations or with other modalities in accordance with the provisions applicable from time to time at the time of the transaction.

    Among the purposes of the authorization is the possibility of assigning the shares to serve the share incentive plans in favour of directors, employees and collaborators of the company or group companies, or to serve any possible free assignment to shareholders, or to serve extraordinary operations or as a tool to support market liquidity.

    As of today, the Company holds 170,447 treasury shares, purchased in execution of previous shareholders' resolutions adopted.

The Shareholders' Meeting also appointed the new Board of Statutory Auditors, composed by Roberto Coda, Chairman (elected from the List 2 presented by the shareholders dP-cube Srl and World Leader Limited), Fabio Avenale and Margherita Spaini (elected from List 1 presented by the shareholder Erste International SA); Maria Luisa Fassero (from List 1) and Alessandro Sabolo (from List 2) were appointed as alternate auditors.

The Board of Statutory Auditors will remain in office for the financial years 2022, 2023 and 2024.

The Shareholders' Meeting resolved the annual remuneration to be assigned to the Chairman of the Board of Statutory Auditors and to the other two Effective Auditors for the entire duration of their office.

The curricula and information relating to the newly appointed auditors can be found on the company websiteShareholders' meetings & info | Prima industrie.

The Board of Statutory Auditors, within the first available meeting, will proceed to assess the possession of the independence and other legal requirements by the newly appointed Auditors.

"The manager responsible for preparing the company financial reports, Marco Pintauro, declares, pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 154-bis of the Consolidated Finance Law, that the accounting information contained in this press release corresponds to documentary findings, books and accounting records".

PRIMA INDUSTRIE heads a Group leader worldwide in developing, manufacturing and marketing of laser systems for industrial applications, sheet metal processing machinery as well as industrial electronics, laser sources and solution for additive manufacturing.

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

With over 40 years of experience, the Group has an installed base of about 14,000 machines in more than 80 countries and is positioned among the main worldwide manufacturers within its own reference market.

The Group has about 1,700 employees, manufacturing sites in Italy, Finland, USA and China and a direct commercial and after-sale presence worldwide.

Prima Industrie Group is structured on four Business Units:

Prima Power - development, production and marketing of laser and sheet metal processing (2D and 3D laser machines, laser drilling systems, punching and combined systems, bending and paneling systems);

Prima Electro - development, production and marketing of embedded electronics for industrial applications; Convergent Photonics - development and production of diodes and laser sources, both industrial and medical;

Prima Additive - development, production and marketing of additive manufacturing solutions with Powder Bed Fusion and Laser Metal Deposition technologies.

For further information:

PRIMA INDUSTRIE S.p.A.

STUDIO MAILANDER

Chiara Roncolini

Carlo Dotta

Investor Relator

Ufficio Stampa

tel. 011 4103204

tel. 011 5527311 mob. 333 2306748

ir@primaindustrie.com

c.dotta@mailander.it

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