Koninklijke Brill NV

Report Publication Announcement • Apr 5, 2019

PRESS RELEASE

Results 2018

Brill publishes its Annual Report including audited Financial Statements and reports an accounting tax benefit, increasing net income

Today Brill will publish its audited Financial Statements. These are available at brill.com. The Annual Report and Financial Statements will be on the agenda of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM), to be held on May 16, 2019 at the Brill premises in Leiden. The convocation notice and the agenda can be found on brill.com as well.

Next to certain balance sheet reclassifications, a remeasurement of the deferred tax position following an announced future nominal tax rate change in the Netherlands, has led to an exceptional one-off income tax benefit of € 0.7 million in the audited accounts. As a consequence Net Profit increases from € 1.6 million, as reported provisionally on March 28, 2019, to € 2.3. million in the final accounts. This tax benefit is an exceptional non-cash item, not related to the 2018 business results. The proposed ordinary dividend per share remains € 0.85.

Leiden, April 4, 2019

Peter Coebergh, Chief Executive Officer coebergh@brill.com - +31 (0)6 53 57 83 25

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