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The Platform Group AG

Investor Presentation May 19, 2022

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Q1 2022 Results Presentation

19 May 2022

PRESENTING TODAY

Thomas Buhl CTO / COO

Q1 H IG H LIG H T S

Q1 2022 in line with expectations laid out in guidance

Group Revenue significantly increases to €36m Consolidated: +54.4% YoY

Highest AOV since the last 5 quarters: 184 EUR or +5% growth YoY

+19% growth YoY in the number of active customers

Available liquidity of €7.3m (end of Q1 '22)

S T R O N G R E V E N U E A M I D C H A L L E N G I N G S E C O N D H A L F O F T H E Q U A R T E R

D E C L I N E I N T R A F F I C I M P A C T S O R D E R G R O W T H , E S P E C I A L L Y F O R T H E N E W C U S T O M E R S

January and February

  • Returning customers: continuously strong growth throughout the quarter
  • New customers: strong growth in January against high comps

Last week of February onwards: muted but still growing number of orders

• Traffic after 24th February: ~17% below average2

New customers have lower AOV which grows over time, supported by category expansion

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fashionette Q1 2022 - Investor presentation 1. AOV from Q1 2022 2. First 23 days of February (2022)

FINANCIAL UPDATE

D YNAMIC G R O W T H IN Q1 AND 2M 2022

fashionette Q1 2022 - Investor presentation * DACH: Germany, Austria, Switzerland. | ** Benelux: Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg. • Others benefitted mostly from operations in France, United Kingdom, Italy and Sweden

CO NT INU O U S LY R ES ILIENT CU S T O MER MET R ICS

Pro Forma

NUMBER OF NEW CUSTOMERS NUMBER OF ACTIVE CUSTOMERS (LTM)

  • Strong growth on fashionette's platform partially compensating slower acquisition of the new customers at Brandfield
  • Consumer sentiment impacted conversion rates at Brandfield
  • Strong growth in the number of active customers on both platforms
  • Strategic choices and investments into IT platform supported strong growth
    • 8

G R O W ING EF F ICIENCY IN MAR K ET ING

MARKETING COST PER ORDER (€)

CUSTOMER ACQUISITION COSTS (CAC) (€)

  • Growing number of orders at fashionette leads to more efficient marketing cost per order
  • Number of orders at Brandfield are impacted by slower acquisition of new customers
  • fashionette gains efficiency in customer acquisition costs
    • EUR 53.70 in Q1'22 vs EUR 58.29 in Q1'21
  • Lower number of new customers, impacts CAC at Brandfield
    • 9

CO NS U MER S ENT IMENT W EIG H ING O N NU MBER O F O R D ER S

Pro Forma

NUMBER OF ORDERS

  • fashionette: continuously strong growth in a number of orders (+16.9%) and units sold (+24.9%)
  • Brandfield: number of orders are impacted by consumer sentiment affecting lower priced items

  • Selection expansion at Brandfield results in:
    • Increasing share of handbags (14% vs 8% in Q1 '21)
    • +7% growth in AOV
    • +18% in active customers

F INANCIAL PER F O R MANCE Q1 2022

Pro Forma

Q1
2021
Q1
2022
Returns
of
total
(in
%
revenue)
5%
38
6%
40
of
(in
%
Net
revenue)
Gross
Margin
9%
41
0%
41
Distribution
Cost
Ratio
-12
1%
-13
2%
Profit
Contribution
I
29
8%
27
8%
Marketing
Cost
Ratio
5%
-16
6%
-15
G&A
Ratio
7%
-11
-12
3%
Other
Oper
Income
Ratio
7%
0
6%
0
Adj
Margin
EBITDA
2
3%
0
6%
Reported
EBITDA
Margin
7%
0
2%
0

Q1 Details

Returns

Mainly driven by fashionette's category mix

Gross Margin

Gross margin remains strong despite a 92bps decline caused by category mix and increased competition. An increase in own brands revenue (+12% YoY) offsets some of the decline

Distribution Cost

Distribution cost per order increased only by 1% YoY for fashionette

Marketing Cost

Strong improvement on fashionette's platform largely compensating for increase in marketing cost at Brandfield

G&A Cost

Slight increase driven by personnel expenses connected with business expansion, annualizing in 2H '22

Reported EBITDA Margin

Adjusted for a non-cash IFRS impact (EUR 0.4m) in relation to acquisition of Brandfield

LIQU ID IT Y BR ID G E IN Q1 2022

Q1 Details

Operating cash flow Inventory increase ahead of the summer season

Financing cash flow Includes payment of EUR 0.5m for refinancing of Brandfield

Liquidity: €7.3 million

By the end of March 2022, net cash position was € -4.9 million with additional working capital facilities of € 13.0 million1

Net Debt: Q1 is at 20.1mEUR

  1. €13 million are adjusted for contingencies (Note 30 in the Annual Report 2021)

fashionette Q1 2022 - Investor presentation

STRATEGIC UPDATE

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

SELECTION EXPANSION 1 2 3

… WITHIN EXISTING CATEGORIES … INTO ADJACENT CATEGORIES

  • PIM1 - Optimized product descriptions to drive conversion. Available for all categories
  • Attributes help in creating an automated text for product descriptions (powered by AI)
  • Semi-automated SKU creation: with limited manual labor and faster route to listing

REGIONAL EXPANSION

… WITHIN EXISTING COUNTRIES … INTO NEW GEOGRAPHIES

  • PIM1 – seamless translation of the attributes, enabling expansion
  • Stock management stock migration process from fashionette to Brandfield
  • ITG partner with 200 locations worldwide, providing opportunity for expansion

CONTINUED INVESTMENTS

+2 pp NPS improvement

… INTO OUR IT PLATFORM … INTO OUR CONTENT PRODUCTION

  • Data lakes inclusion of Brandfield's data into fashionette's data lake. Enabling marketing efficiency overtime
  • CRM Brandfield's CRM fueled by data insights from fashionette (results in 2Q '22 )
  • Pricing fully automated "mark down" functionality improving cash flow (to be rolled out at brandfield later in 2022)

SELECTIVE M&A

Acquisition of Brandfield and consolidation from July 1, 2021

  1. Product Information Management system 2. Net Promoter Score after checkout fashionette FY 2021 - Investor presentation

OWN BRAND UPDATE

S U S T A I N A B L E A N D P R O F I T A B L E G R O W T H T O C O N T I N U E I N 2 0 2 2

IFRS view
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IFRS view
GROWTH
(TOTAL NET REVENUE)
FY 2021 FY 2022
Cons.:
€ 133.8m
Pro Forma:
€ 154.8m
Cons.:
+ 34 to 40%
Pro Forma:
+ 16 to 21%
PROFITABILITY
(ADJUSTED EBITDA)
FY 2021 FY 2022
Cons.:
€ 4.4m
Pro Forma:
€ 5.7m
€ 5m to € 7.5m

Key assumptions

  • Outlook remains unchanged
  • Although an increasingly challenging external environment introduces a greater degree of risk and uncertainties than normal
  • Trading was impacted in the immediate weeks after the start of the war in Easter Europe. Impact was short-lived and since end of March we have seen an improvement in consumer sentiment
  • Continuous strict working capital management

We are confident that executing our growth strategies will enable us to deliver sustainable, profitable growth and value crea tion for our shareholders over the long-term

FINANCIAL CALENDAR AND EVENTS

FINANCIAL CALENDAR UPCOMMING EVENTS

24 Jun '22 Annual General Meeting

  • 24 Aug '22 H1/Q2 Earnings call*
  • 17 Nov '22 Q3 Earnings call*

20 and 23

May '22 Company Roadshow (Virtual)

25 Aug '22 Hamburg Investors Day, Montega (Hamburg)

19 Sep '22 Berenberg and Goldman Sachs 11th German Corporate Conference (Munich)

* Preliminary dates

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Q&A

K PI O V ER V IEW

Non-Financial Performance Indicators

Unaudited

Pro Forma
Q1
2021
Q2
2021
Q3
2021
Q4
2021
2021 Q1
2022
Q2
2022
Q3
2022
Q4
2022
2022 3M
2022
6M
2022
9M
2022
12M
2022
thousands)1
Number
of
orders
(in
309 311 283 494 1,396 324 324
EUR)2
Average
order
value
(in
175 183 179 166 174 184 184
LTM)3
(in
Active
customers
thousands,
825 873 917 976 976 984 984
thousands)5
New
customers
(in
168 165 147 280 760 161 161
Number
of
employees
(average)
266

Definitions

  • 1 Number of orders Defined as the number of customer orders placed on one of the Group's websites or third-party marketplaces in the measurement period after cancelations and irrespective of returns. An order is counted on the day the customer places the order. Orders placed and orders delivered may differ due to orders that are in transit at the end of the measurement period
  • 2 Average order value Defined as the order value divided by the number of orders in the measurement period
  • 3 Active customer Defined as the number of customers placing at least one not cancelled order in the last twelve months on one of the Group's websites or third-party marketplaces in the measurement period, irrespective of returns
  • 4 New customers Defined as the number of orders placed by customers which have placed the first not cancelled order on one of the Group's websites or third-party marketplaces in the measurement period, irrespective of returns

Please refer to IR publications for fashionette factbook

W O R K ING CAPIT AL D EV ELO PMENT

Pro Forma

WORKING CAPITAL (IFRS)

CASH FLOW

kEUR
in
01.01.2021
-
31.03.2021
01.01.2022
-
31.03.2022
Profit
(loss)
for
the
period
-715 -1.569
and
Depreciation
amortization
415 664
Interest
(income)
expenses
395 426
Income
taxes
447 185
in trade
and
other
receivables
Decrease
(increase)
2.711 4.700
(increase)
Decrease
in inventories
-8.468 -7.132
(decrease)
in trade
and
other
payables
Increase
-4.629 -7.673
(decrease)
in other
Increase
provisions
8 3
on sale
of
property, plant
and
Loss
equipment
0 0
Changes
in other
operating items
0 0
Other
non-cash
income (expenses)
67 0
tax paid
Income
-762 -335
Cash
Flow
from
operating
activities
-10.532 -10.731
of
subsidiaries
Acquisition
0 0
Purchase
of
property, plant
and
equipment
-45 -48
of
intangible
Acquisition
assets
-178 -270
Proceeds
from
sale
of
property, plant
and
equipment
0 0
received
Interest
4 2
Cash
flow
from
investing
activities
-220 -315
Proceeds
from
borrowings
0 0
of
borrowings
Repayments
45 -450
Purchase
of
shareholder
loan
0 0
paid
Interest
-395 -429
Proceeds
from
issuance of
shares
0 0
of
finance
lease
liabilities
Payment
-77 -174
flow
from
financing
Cash
activities
-428 -1.052
increase in cash
and
cash
equivalents
Net
-11.179 -12.098
Exchange
rate and
valuation-related
changes
in cash
and
cash
equivalents
-3 0
cash
and
cash
equivalents
at the
beginning
of
the
period
Net
34.154 7.178
of
Net
cash
and
cash
equivalents
at the
end
the
period
22.971 -4.920

K PI D EF INIT IO NS

ACTIVE CUSTOMERS Defined as the number of customers placing at least one not cancelled order in the last twelve months on one of the Group's websites or third-party marketplaces in the
measurement period, irrespective of returns.
ADJ. EBITDA Defined as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization excluding extraordinary income / expenses.
AVERAGE ORDER VALUE Defined as the order value divided by the number of orders in the measurement period.
CUSTOMER ACQUISITON COST Defined as total marketing costs during a specific period divided by the number of new customers acquired during the same period. Customer acquisition cost is
calculated at a high level of detail for each marketing activity.
EBITDA Defined as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
FREE CASH FLOW / CASH CONVERSION Defined as free cash flow divided by adjusted net profit. Free cash flow consist of the cash flow from operating activities and
the cash flow from investing activities.
Adjusted net profit consist of net profit excluding extraordinary income / expenses.
MARKETING COST RATIO Defined as total marketing costs divided by the order value for the measurement period. Total marketing costs consist of all marketing related costs including
advertising expenses for all marketing channels, content production and related license fees as well as cost for marketing related tools and all other marketing related
expenses. Total marketing costs do not include salaries.
NET REVENUE Defined as gross revenue including dunning charges, marketing support less returns and credit notes.
NEW CUSTOMERS Defined as the number of orders placed by customers which have placed the first not cancelled order on one of the Group's websites or third-party marketplaces in the
measurement period, irrespective of returns.
NUMBER OF ORDERS Defined as the number of customer orders placed on one of the Group's websites or third-party marketplaces in the measurement period after cancelations and
irrespective of returns. An order is counted on the day the customer places the order. Orders placed and orders delivered may
differ due to orders that are in transit at
the end of the measurement period.
ORDER VALUE Defined as the total amount spent (excluding VAT) on one of the Group's websites or third-party marketplaces by customers in the measurement period after
cancelations and irrespective of return.
RETURN RATE (in % OF ORDER VALUE) Defined as the total amount returned regarding orders placed by customers on one of the Company's websites in the measurement
period divided by order value.

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