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Investor Presentation Mar 20, 2019

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STAR CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

MARCH 20TH 2019

DISCLAIMER

This presentation has been prepared by ePRICE S.p.A. for information purposes only and for use in presentations of the Group's results and strategies.

For further details on the ePRICE Group, reference should be made to publicly available information.

Statements contained in this presentation, particularly regarding any possible or assumed future performance of the Group, are or may be forward-looking statements based on ePRICE S.p.A.'s current expectations and projections about future events, and in this respect may involve some risks and uncertainties.

Actual future results for any quarter or annual period may therefore differ materially from those expressed in or implied by these statements due to a number of different factors, many of which are beyond the ability of ePRICE S.p.A. to control or estimate precisely, including, but not limited to, the Group's ability to manage the effects of the uncertain current local and global economic conditions on our business and to predict future economic conditions, the Group's ability to achieve and manage growth, the degree to which ePRICE S.p.A. enters into, maintains and develops commercial and partnership agreements, the Group's ability to successfully identify, develop and retain key employees, manage and maintain key customer relationships and maintain key supply sources, unfavourable development affecting consumer spending, the rate of growth of the Internet and online commerce, Italian advertising market, competition, fluctuations in exchange rates, any failure of information technology, inventory and other asset risk, credit risk on our accounts, regulatory developments and changes in tax laws.

ePRICE S.p.A. does not undertake any obligation to publicly release any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this presentation.

Any reference to past performance of the ePRICE Group shall not be taken as an indication of future performance.

This document does not constitute an offer or invitation to purchase or subscribe to any shares and no part of it shall form the basis of or be relied upon in connection with any contract or commitment whatsoever.

By attending the presentation you agree to be bound by the foregoing terms.

ePRICE AT A GLANCE

"Serving the evolution of Italian households"

A unique online offer to cover customer needs… …powered by a complete e-Commerce platform

ePRICE: A BIT OF HISTORY

1st & 3rd PARTY MARKETPLACE, FOCUSED ON E-COMMERCE AND E-SERVICES

#1 Online Italian Retailer in Major Domestic Appliance Sales …with Unique Assets and Services

Effective Info-commerce platform for vendors

  • Core CategoriesOriginal Contents
  • Advisory

Solutions

FY 2018 : HIGHLIGHTS

1. Strong reduction in cash consumption: from €35M to € 15M

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  • 1. Losses halved throughout the year: Ebitda FY 2018 from -€15,3M to -€8,8M
  • 3 Effective results in G&A and HR cost control: -22% G&A, -17% Payroll
  • 4 Efficiency on Marketing&Sales : Online ADV -20%, Free Shipping -50%
  • 5 Progress in Fulfillment and Damages cost (halved incidence on MDAs vs. FY 17 )
  • 1. Substantial Gross Margin growth: from 14.8% in FY 17 to 16.7% in FY 18
  • Growth recovery in Core Categories and Marketplace: +10% on MDAs, +20% on Marketplace YoY

FY 2018 : MAIN EVENTS & INITIATIVES

month event what's
up
results
March 2018 FY 2017 RESULTS & BUSINESS PLAN
UPDATE 2018-2023

Shifting
low
contribution
margin
1P Sales to 3P
Marketplace

New Marketing Strategy
SEO Driven

Cost
Control and reduction

Management reorganization
and HR
reduced
to 160 people

New «Product» Unit

Halved
Ebitda
losses
April-Aug
2018
NEW MARKETING INITIATIVES
Brand association
with mass brands
& events
for
Italy

Partnership with Radio Italia

Partnership with FC Internazionale

Spontaneous
brand awareness=4X
share of voice TV

72% aided
brand awareness
August 2018 MDAs
SALES PARTNERSHIP WITH
AMAZON

Started
selling
a range
OF MDAs
on Amazon

Work in progress on installation
services

Intercepting
different
clients -
segments
with lower
basket size

Better
understanding
of market
momentum
October
2018
MARKETPLACE SELLER DAY
250 Italian
sellers attending

New initiatives
to empower
our
marketplace
relevance
in Italy
and abroad

1,898 active
seller FY 18 (+36% YOY)

+19% GMV growth
in Q4
November
2018
BLACK WEEKEND
Pushing
Black Hour, Black Friday
and Cybermonday
waves
in Italy

Dedicated
initiatives
from 5th to 26th november

Double digit
growth
on MDAs

+50% Home Service Growth

+50% marketplace
growth
December
2018
PARTNERSHIP WITH E-SQUARE
ePRICE joining
one
of the most
significant
international
retail
group
(5,6€ BN purchases/year)

Relevance
with vendors

Volumes

International visibility

ePRICE FY 18 GMV & REVENUES (1) (2)

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(1) Gross Merchandise Volume includes revenues from products, shipping and 3P marketplace sales, net of returns and VAT included. (2) Revenue from services includes deliveries, warranties, B2B, ADV&Infocommerce and other revenues. GMV from services does not include B2B, ADV&Infocommerce;. Services&other have been restated and now include warranties.

GROSS MARGIN FY & Q4 2018

FY GROSS MARGIN 17 TO FY 18, % OF REVENUES

2018 EXECUTION HIGHLIGHTS

Key Actions on P&L

Key Actions on Cash
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€MN, % Q4 17 Q4 18 DELTA €MN Q4 17 Q4 18
Gross Margin 14.8% 17.4% +260 bps Cash generation* (6.4) 1.1
Ebitda (4.2) (2.6) +1.6M Delta WC 1,5 1,4
Key actions on Costs Key Actions on Volumes
€MN Q4 17 Q4 18 DELTA % YoY growth Q4 17 Q4 18
G&A+IT 2.3 1.8 *
-0.5M
Marketplace €12.0M €14.2M

FY 18 NFP EVOLUTION QBQ

Cash Consumption Q2+Q3+Q4:-1.2M +7M from extraordinary act. -8.2M from operating act.

Cash Consumption Q2+Q3+Q4 2017: -19.4M -5.2M from extraordinary act. -14.2 from operating act.

Q4 18 Cash up by 1 M€

FY 2018

Profit & Loss FY2018 FY 2017 YOY %
Total Revenues 164,4 187,3 -12,2%
Cost of Revenues -137,0 -159,6 -14,1%
Gross Profit 27,4 27,7 -1,2%
Gross Margin % 16,7% 14,8%
Sales & Marketing -11,5 -13,8 -16,8%
Fullfilment -19,7 -19,7 0,2%
IT -1,3 -1,6 -17,7%
G&A -5,1 -6,6 -22,2%
EBITDA ADJUSTED -10,2 -14,0 26,5%
Ebitda Adjusted % -6,2% -7,4%
Non recurring costs 1,4 -1,3
EBITDA -8,8 -15,3 42,3%
Ebitda % -5,4% -8,2%
EBIT -17,5 -22,8 23,3%
Ebit % -10,7% -12,2%
EBT from continuing operations -17,9 -25,4 29,6%
Ebt % -10,9% -13,6%
EBT from discontinued activies 3,3 0,7
Net result -14,6 -24,8 40,9%
Comments
Gross Margin
GM up by 190 bps vs. FY 17 due to improvement on margin on
goods, marketplace contribution, vendor rebates and info
commerce revenues (see chart GM waterfall)
S&M
S&M decreases 16.8% YoY mainly due to reduction of Online Paid
ADV incidence. SEO improvement partially balancing paid traffic
reduction.
G&A & IT
G&A & IT costs decrease 21.3% YoY due to HR, corporate cost
reduction & service contracts re-negotiation
Non recurring
Includes positive contribution of 2M€ related to the termination
of the logistics services contract with SRP
EBIT
EBIT impacted by Y/Y 15% depreciation increase due to SAP and
fulfilment center Investments
EBT from discontinued activities
3.3M€ including earn-out from Banzai Media Disposal and SRP
carve out related to Saldiprivati
disposal
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Q4 2018

€ MN Profit & Loss Q4 2018 Q4 2017 Q4 YOY
Total Revenues 51,9 55,0 -5,7%
Cost of Revenues -42,8 -46,8 -8,6%
Gross Profit 9,0 8,2 10,9%
Gross Margin % 17,4% 14,8%
Sales & Marketing -3,3 -5,1 35,0%
Fullfilment -6,3 -6,2 -1,6%
IT -0,3 -0,2 -26,5%
G&A -1,6 -0,6 163,3%
EBITDA ADJUSTED -2,4 -3,9 38,7%
Ebitda Adjusted % -4,6% -7,1%
Non recurring costs -0,2 -0,3 -3,8%
EBITDA -2,6 -4,2 37,6%
Ebitda % -5,1% -7,7%
EBIT -4,8 -6,7 28,8%
Ebit % -9,2% -12,2%
-
EBT from continuing operations
Ebt %
-4,4
-8,5%
-8,9
-16,3%
51,0%
EBT from discontinued activies 0,0 0,0
Net result -4,4 -8,9 50,8%
Comments
Gross Margin
GM up by 260 bps vs. FY 17 mainly due to improvement on
margin on goods, marketplace contribution, vendor rebates and
info-commerce revenues (see chart GM waterfall)
S&M
S&M decreases 32% YoY because of Paid Advertising
Optimization
G&A & IT
G&A Q4 17 including 1.6M€ tax credits contribution for R&D.
Net of this impact G&A&IT costs decrease 22% YoY.

FY 2018: CUSTOMER KPI's

(1) Some of marketplace buyers possibly duplicated and in common with total ePRICE buyers, which are undpulicated (2) Spending per Buyer is calculated on revenue from products, deliveries and revenue from 3P marketplacegiven, net of returns and VAT included

2019 TARGETS: BUILDING VALUE ON CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

  1. Increase customer satisfaction by deploying our service assets and attractive pricing.

Build an effective and unique last mile delivery network improving service quality.

Strongly grow organic traffic in order to further reduce Online Adv costs.

  1. Complete the efficiency plan on damages and fulfillment.

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Increase margins with suppliers, reducing gap with off-line players.

2019 BUDGET MILESTONES 1/2

A. ORGANIC TRAFFIC GROWTH

JAN 18 VS. JAN 17 SEO GROWTH

(GROWTH % OVERALL MONTHLY NATURAL TRAFFIC)

  • The activity of the new "Product" organizational unit that includes both UX and Software Development starting to bring results
  • Organic Traffic grown over 30% in 12 months1 and Google visibility
  • Share on main "core" keywords grown 30-40% in the last 6 months2.
  • 2019 progress expected eventually to allow further Paid Traffic Investment reduction (C. -30% in 2018)

B. COST CONTROL

DAMAGED MDAS TREND (# PIECES)

• We expect Gross Margin 2019 to grow at the same rate as 2018 due to category mix, full effect of damaged goods reduction program and relevance with vendors.

1 Company estimates on SemRush results JAN-2018/ JAN-2019 2 Company estimates on SemRush results MAY-2018/ JAN-2019

2019 BUDGET MILESTONES 2/2

C. FULL EFFECT OF 2018 COST CONTROL

HR Gross
Saving
2018 2019 target
Sales&Marketing -16% further
slight
decrease
Fulfilment -24% further double digit decrease
IT -14% same level
G&A -30% further decrease
HR Net of Capex -17% further
decrease

Increased Contribution margin, with fixed costs reduction deploying their fulll effect on 2019 should allow a nearly break even Ebitda at year's end.

2019 TARGET: INCREASING CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

Weekend delivery service

  • Test from March inside the Milan Area for freestanding Appliances and TV
  • Includes delivery and installation of appliances (including withdrawal of the old one) on Saturday and Sunday.
  • When ordering on the site, the customer will have the possibility to book the preferred time slot on the Saturday and Sunday, as it happens for working days

Same day delivery program

  • Test starting in April inside the Milan Area for freestanding Appliances and TV
  • An order placed before 2.00 pm can be scheduled for installation at home on the same day from 5.00 pm to 9.00 pm.
  • Extra value delivered & urgency = extra value in the ticket

«I only have spare time on weekend for opening my house to installers and technicians»

Customer insight

«My fridge got broken! I need a new one now!»

2019 OUTLOOK– MARKET ASSUMPTIONS

2017-2019 TECH&APPLIANCES RETAIL MARKET VIEW, € BN AND % GROWTH

2019 OUTLOOK – ASSUMPTIONS MARKET SHARE

MARKET SHARE EPRICE ASSUMPTIONS 2017-2019 (% GMV OF TOTAL RETAIL IN ITALY)

FY 2019: GUIDELINES

    1. GMV and revenues back to solid growth, raising customers' satisfaction through our services offer 1
    1. Gross Margin improvement by partnership with vendors and recovery of reverse value
    1. Ebitda FY 2019 around breakeven, back-end loaded
  • 4 NFP substantially unchanged at year's end
  • 5 Up to € 12M from earn-out of previous disposals and operations
TARGET MODEL 2018 2019 TARGET DRIVERS
MARKET GROWTH
TECH&APPLIANCES
c.20% c.12% 10% -
12%
Conservative growth
Offline stores closures
Online/Offline Price convergence
GMV €234M high single digit 2x Market Growth, Marketplace development, Services
uplift
REVENUES €164M high single digit 2x MDAs Leadership and market growth,
Infocommerce and B2B sales empowerment
GROSS MARGIN
before Transport
16.7% +200/300 bps 22%-26% Mix, Rebates, Increased negotiating power,
recovery of value in damaged goods
MARKETING 7.0% 5.0% / 6.0% SEM Efficiency, SEO full effectiveness
Defending Brand Awareness
FULFILMENT &
INTERNAL
TRANSPORT
11.6% 10.0% /
11.5%
Impact of ongoing efficiency actions limited by MDAs
growth in sales mix
IT + G&A 3.7% 2.0% / 3.0% Efficiencies and scalability
EBITDA adj. -6.0% Around break even
–back end loaded
5% / 6% #1 specialty
player, EBITDA enhanced
by
mktplace
and services
CAPEX 2.1% 2.0 / 2.5% 2.0% / 3.0% 21
Recurring
CAPEX

FINANCIAL CALENDAR

Date Financial Event
16 April Ordinary
Shareholders
Meeting
14 May Q1 Approval
1 August H1 Approval
12 November 9M Approval

SHAREHOLDER STRUCTURE

The share capital of Eprice S.p.A. is equal to Euro 826.297 composed by n.41.314.850 ordinary shares without par-value.

RELEVANT
SHAREHOLDERS
NUMBERS OF SHARES % SHARE CAPITAL
Paolo Ainio* 9,452,615 22.88%
Arepo
BZ S.a.r.l.
8,613,850 20.85%
Pietro Boroli 2,181,200 5.28%
Treasury
Shares
1,011,372 2.45%

*of which 221.750 (0,54%) held trough PUPS S.r.l., 80% controlled by Paolo Ainio.

There are no other shareholders, outside of those listed above, with a shareholding of more than 5% that have notified Consob and Eprice S.p.A. according to art. 117 of Consob Regulation no. 11971/99 on notification requirements of major holdings.

ANNEX

BALANCE SHEET

€ MN

Balance Sheet 31/12/17 31/12/18 Comments
Balance Sheet
Property, plant
and equipment
7,8 6,4 Goodwill decrease of 1.5M€ is related to Sitonline
disposal
Goodwill 14,3 12,8
Intangible
assets
14,3 14,9
Financial assets 4,9 1,3 Financial assets decrease is mainly related to Interactive
TOTAL ASSETS 41,3 35,4 Thinking (Doing) disposal in Q4 18
NWC (5,5) 1,2
NWC
increase is mainly due to decrease in trade payables due
Deferred tax assets 8,7 8,7 to end of 2017 calendar effect
Provisions (2,0) (2,2)
Other non current debts (0,4) (0,4)
Net Invested Capital 42,1 42,7
Net Equity 63,4 49,4
Net Financial Position (21,3) (6,7)
Total Sources 42,1 42,7

NET WORKING CAPITAL

€ MN

Net Working Capital 31/12/17 31/12/18 Comments
Inventories 20,3 16,1 NWC
Inventories decrease is mainly related to reduction in
Trade receivables 8,9 6,8 Inventory rotation ratio (DOI): over 10%
Trade payables decrease due to calendar effect end of
Trade Payables (37,7) (22,5) 2017.
Other receivables and payables 3,1 0,7
NET WORKING CAPITAL (5,4) 1,2
DOI 47 42
DSO 12 12
DPO 57 39

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