Investor Presentation • May 14, 2025
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Thomas Mehls CEO

Dr. Olaf Holzkämper CFO



in Euro millions


Group turnover rises by +4.8% to €173.4 million (Q1 2024: €165.5 million).

At €6.1 million, Q1 Group EBIT is fully in line with expectations, confirming the annual target for 2025.
The EBIT difference compared to the previous year can be explained by, among other things, the shift in the Easter holiday (-1.5 million euros) and the increase in (online) marketing costs (-0.9 million euros). In the previous year, Easter fell in the first quarter (Good Friday was already on March 29, 2024), whereas this year it fell in the second quarter. In addition, the previous year was a leap year and had one more production day due to February 29.
Rounding differences may occur.
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* Previous year's turnover and EBIT adjusted by €0.179 million due to the correction of a major customer invoice in COP; effect for the full year 2024 already taken into account in Q4 2024


6 TIPA World Awards 2025 for CEWE, Pixum and WhiteWall

BEST PHOTOBOOK CEWE PHOTOBOOK with Panorama Page
BEST PROFESSIONAL PRINTING APP CEWE Passport Photo App
BEST PHOTO SERVICE CEWE Fineline Wall Calendar
BEST DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY CEWE Smart Layout Concept

BEST PHOTOBOOK APP Pixum App Smart Photobook Layouts

BEST PHOTO FRAME DESIGN WhiteWall 6mm Basel Frame

"BEST PHOTOBOOK" – CEWE PHOTOBOOK with Panorama Page



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"BEST PHOTO SERVICE" – CEWE Fineline Wall Calendar



"BEST DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY" – CEWE Smart Layout Concept


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"BEST PHOTOBOOK APP" – Pixum App Smart Photobook Layouts




"BEST PHOTO FRAME DESIGN" – WhiteWall 6mm Basel Frame




in Euro millions

Photofinishing turnover rose by 5.3% to €144.8 million in the first quarter (Q1 2024: €137.6 million). Trend confirmed: Demand for photo products has been strong in the first quarter for years, a trend that was temporarily diluted in 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Photofinishing EBIT reached €5.6 million in the first quarter (Q1 2024: €7.5 million). Among other things this can be explained by a different public holiday constellation: In the previous year, Easter fell in the first quarter, this year in the second. The previous year was also a leap year and had one more production day due to February 29. This different calendar day constellation resulted in a total reduction in the contribution margin of around €1.5 million in the first quarter. In addition, the result includes around €0.9 million in higher marketing expenses – in particular due to online marketing activities which were needed in order to achieve the top-line result.
Seasonal distribution: CEWE 2021 to 2025 – Turnover by quarter in million euros

Seasonal distribution: CEWE 2021 to 2025 – EBIT by quarter in million euros






»Business and advertising prints: flyers, business cards, stationery, packaging, promotional items, etc.
in Euro millions

COP grew by 3.0% in the weaker overall market in the first quarter. With its best price guarantee, COP appears to be continuing to gain market share.
Thanks to cost-efficient production in a highly price-competitive environment, the turnover achieved enabled COP to post an EBIT on a par with the previous year: EUR 0.7 million (EBIT Q1 2024: EUR 0.7 million).
▪ Special effects Q1 2025: -0.03 million euros − Effects from the purchase price allocation of Laserline: -0.03 mill. euros
22 Rounding differences may occur.
* Previous year's turnover and EBIT adjusted by €0.179 million due to the correction of a major customer invoice in COP; effect for the full year 2024 already taken into account in Q4 2024



in Euro millions

The hardware retail business remains well positioned and even achieved a slight increase in turnover of +1.0% to EUR 6.7 million (Q1 2024: EUR 6.6 million).
With EBIT of EUR -0.2 million, the retail business achieved a typical Q1 result (Q1 2024: EUR -0.1 million; change: EUR -44 thousand). Due to the seasonal nature of the business, hardware retail is traditionally slightly negative in the first quarter.


Structural and corporate costs and profits arising from real estate property and company investments are shown in the "other" business segment.



Rounding differences may occur.
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* Previous year's turnover adjusted by €0.179 million due to the correction of a major customer invoice in COP; effect for the full year 2024 already taken into account in Q4 2024

Rounding differences may occur.
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* Previous year's EBIT adjusted by €0.179 million due to the correction of a major customer invoice in COP; effect for the full year 2024 already taken into account in Q4 2024


| Figures in thousands of euros | Q1 2024 | in % of revenues |
Q1 2025 | in % of revenues |
∆ as % | ∆ as th.euros |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenues | * 165,486 |
100% | 173,426 | 100% | 4.8% | 7,940 |
| Increase / decrease in finished and unfinished goods |
-75 | 0.0% | -353 | -0.2% | -371% | -278 |
| Other own work capitalised | 1,077 | 0.7% | 609 | 0.4% | -43.5% | -468 |
| Other operating income | 7,500 | 4.5% | 8,386 | 4.8% | 11.8% | 886 |
| Cost of materials | -39,415 | -23.8% | -40,950 | -23.6% | -3.9% | -1,535 |
| Gross profit | 134,573 | 81.3% | 141,118 | 81% | 4.9% | 6,545 |
| Personnel expenses | -55,311 | -33.4% | -60,251 | -34.7% | -8.9% | -4,940 |
| Other operating expenses | -58,588 | -35.4% | -62,136 | -35.8% | -6.1% | -3,548 |
| EBITDA | 20,674 | 12.5% | 18,731 | 10.8% | -9.4% | -1,943 |
| Amortisation/Depreciation | -12,751 | -7.7% | -12,624 | -7.3% | 1.0% | 127 |
| Earnings before interest, taxes (EBIT) | * 7,923 |
4.8% | 6,107 | 3.5% | -22.9% | -1,816 |
| Financial income | 938 | 0.6% | 482 | 0.3% | -48.6% | -456 |
| Financial expenses | -347 | -0.2% | -444 | -0.3% | -28.0% | -97 |
| Financial result | 591 | 0.4% | 38 | 0.0% | 93.6% | -553 |
| Earnings before taxes (EBT) | 8,514 | 5.1% | 6,145 | 3.5%0 | -27.8%0 | -2,369 |
All business segments increased its turnover: PF +7.2 million euros (+5.3%), COP +0.6 million euros (+3.0%), RT +0.1 million euros (+1.0%)
Slight increase in income from recyclable production residues.
Slight reduction of the cost of materials ratio to 23.6% (previous year: 23.8%) due to the ongoing shift in the revenue structure (larger revenue share of the PF business segment with a lower cost of materials ratio).
Increase due to wage and salary adjustments, new hires in the PF business segment, provisions for departing board members and higher provisions for accrued holiday pay
Increased costs for advertising and higher IT costs.
Rounding differences may occur.
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* Previous year's turnover and EBIT adjusted by €0.179 million due to the correction of a major customer invoice in COP; effect for the full year 2024 already taken into account in Q4 2024

»Balance sheet total increased by 35.7 million euros to 621.9 million euros (+6.1%), "in line" with turnover (+4.8%)
»CEWE with strong equity ratio of 68.2% (31.03.2024: 66.6%)


»Increase mainly in cash (+26.0 million euros) respectively equity (+33.9 million euros) raises capital employed respectively capital invested (+32.4 million euros)

received

»Excluding the increase in cash in capital employed, ROCE even at 18.6%

(dividend payout in following year)
* recommendation of board of management and supervisory board to AGM (June 4, 2025)

Source: "MyDividends.de" (2022), "Dividendenstudie 2023" and "Dividendenstudie 2024" from Dividenden Adel, isf Institut and Deutsche Schutzvereinigung für Wertpapierbesitz DSW



| Target | PY 2024 | Target 2025 | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Photos |
billion photos |
2.46 | 2.46 to 5.53 |
0% to +2% |
| CEWE PHOTO BOOK | millions | 6.11 | 6.0 to 6.2 |
-1% to +2% |
| Operational Investments 2 | million euros |
56.0 | ~ 65 | |
| Revenue | million euros |
832.8 | 835 to 865 |
0% to +4% |
| EBIT | million euros |
86.1 | 84 to 92 |
-2% to +7% |
| EBT 3 | million euros |
86.9 | 83.5 to 91.5 |
-4% to +5% |
| 4 Earnings after tax |
million euros |
60.1 | 58 to 63 |
-4% to +5% |
| Earnings per share |
euro | 8.64 | 8.32 to 9.12 |
-4% to +6% |
1 The number of photos is the sum of the images with which CEWE photo products were designed and refers to all images that are used in value-added (CEWE PHOTOBOOK, calendars, wall art, greeting cards, etc.) 2 Outflows from investments in property, plant and equipment and intangible assets, netted against inflows from the sale of property, plant and equipment and intangible assets; without acquisitions/company acquisitions 3 Without subsequent valuations of equity instruments
4 Based on the normalized group tax rate of the previous year
The ranges of these targets for 2025 reflect the uncertainties that currently arise, for example, from possible developments in demand behavior, from price increases/inflation on the cost of sales and cost side and their potential impact on CEWE's business performance.
Rounding differences might occur.


This presentation contains forward-looking statements that are based on current assumptions and forecasts of the management of CEWE. Known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could lead to material differences between the forward-looking statements given here and the actual development, in particular the results, financial situation and performance of our Company. The Company assumes no liability to update these forward-looking statements or to conform them to future events or developments.
All numbers are calculated as exactly as possible and rounded for the presentation. Due to this, rounding differences might occur.

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