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Westwing Group SE Earnings Release 2018

Mar 15, 2019

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FY 2018 Results Preliminary March 15, 2019

Certain statements in this communication may constitute forward looking statements. These statements are based on assumptions that are believed to be reasonable at the time they are made, and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. You should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events and we undertake no obligation to update or revise these statements. Our actual results may differ materially and adversely from any forward-looking statements discussed on this call due to a number of factors, including without limitation, risks from macroeconomic developments, external fraud, inefficient processes at fulfillment centers, inaccurate personnel and capacity forecasts for fulfillment centers, hazardous material / conditions in production with regard to private labels, lack of innovation capabilities, inadequate data security, lack of market knowledge, risk of strike and changes in competition levels.

All numbers shown is this document for FY 2018 are preliminary and unaudited.

AGENDA

  • Highlights
  • Financial update
  • Outlook and Q&A
  • Appendix

OUR MISSION

To inspire and make

beautiful home

every home a

Westwing is the leading inspiration-based Home & Living eCommerce brand in Europe

  • Our mission is "To inspire and make every home a beautiful home"
  • We sell beautiful home & living products like textiles, rugs, furniture, lighting, decoration
  • Westwing is a "curated shoppable magazine", fresh every day
  • Our customers are 90% women, and they are very loyal: We do 85% of our sales with customers who visit us on average 100 times a year
  • The opportunity is massive: EUR 117bn market in our geographies, very early in eCommerce
  • Fueled by customer loyalty, we are profitably growing

Profitable growth FY 2018 in line with guidance, overall successful year: 16% yoy Revenue growth at 1% Adj EBITDA

  • Profitable growth, loyalty-driven business model, achieving guidance
  • Very strong DACH segment, +36% growth, +4% Adj EBITDA
  • International segment progressing well, excl Italy at +7% growth, replicating successful DACH role model
  • Own and Private Label share at 18% in Q4 2018 (+6%pts yoy)
  • Best-in-class performance on cash efficiency; net cash reserves of EUR 108m

Challenges in 2018

  • Significant challenges in Italy with negative growth due to wrong positioning and rebranding, transformation initiated and in progress
  • Unusually warm weather well into Q4 in Europe, mostly compensated by Westwing customer loyalty

Note: Preliminary and unaudited; All figures continuing operations (ie excluding Brazil and Russia); Adj EBITDA excluding share-based compensation expenses, IPO costs recognized in profit and loss and central costs allocated to discontinued operations (Brazil and Russia were sold in Oct/Nov 2018, central costs were allocated for full year due to eg ongoing handover)

Replication of DACH business to International Segment progressing very well

DACH is a fast-growing business model … … successfully being rolled out in

  • DACH highly attractive: EUR 133m revenue, 36% yoy growth, +4% Adj EBITDA
  • Daily themes and loyalty business model as customer acquisition and retention machine
  • Permanent assortment WestwingNow since 2015, for up-selling and cross-selling
  • Rapidly growing share of Own Label and Private Label (24% of GMV in Q4)
  • Organic Marketing driving strong growth and branding at only 6% marketing ratio1

international markets

  • International markets have had daily themes and loyalty model from the beginning, and are learning from DACH with local focus
  • Permanent assortment already rolled out to 6 of 8 markets, thereof 3 new in 20182
  • Own Label and Private Label offering approaching 10% of GMV
  • Ramping up Organic Marketing for international markets
  • Country-by-country, we are following the DACH example, e.g. Poland3 farthest along

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DACH business very attractive; majority of International segment on clear path to replicate DACH; challenges in Italy being addressed

Note: Preliminary and unaudited; (1) Latest Group Revenue, Q4 2018; (2) Poland is CEE i.e. includes Czech Republic and Slovakia

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2018 Recap and Group Business Highlights

  • Profitable growth at 1% Adj EBITDA (+3%pts); DACH segment as role model: 36% growth, 4% Adj EBITDA
  • International roll-out of permanent assortment WestwingNow, as of today live in already 6 of 8 countries
  • Share of Own and Private Labels up to 18% of GMV in Q4
  • Launch Westwing Collection with 1,500 own-label products
  • Ramping up Organic Marketing team by 40 people in Q4
  • Focus on consumer technology, including potential future industry changers such as Augmented Reality
  • Operational improvements, incl. software improvements and ongoing move of largest warehouse from Berlin to Poland
  • Best-in-class cash efficiency on working capital and capex
  • Successful IPO raising EUR 122m in capital
  • Serving 933,694 active customers with 2,399,122 orders of 6,364,060 products; selling a product every 5 seconds

New product releases

Corner sofa Marshmallow (upcoming) EUR 1,599

Rug Leaf from EUR 199

Emphasizing trend of haptic structures also in our rug designs

New modular optic, one of the biggest upholstery trend

Satin bedding Blossom EUR 59

Bringing current fashion trend to interiors

Teddy Armchair Wing EUR 299

Giving everyday floral prints a "dark" twist

Interior Material trend on an unexpected product

Table Lamp Vienna EUR 69

Extension of our bestseller Glam velvet chair to casual non velvet fabric

Dining Chair Rachel EUR 129

In Q4 2018 we provided our customers a vast variety of themes and inspiration

Customer Highlights Q4 2018 (1/3)

INTERIOR DESIGN SERVICE

Westwing's unique Interior design service continues to grow and has now crossed the mark of a 1,000 completed design projects. Our inhouse designers are constantly working towards our company mission to make the homes of our customers more beautiful. Given the high demand we are facing, we are currently experimenting with our service offering and pricing to ensure we provide our customers with a timely response to their needs.

WESTWING AUTUMN/WINTER COLLECTION

Westwing launched our much-awaited Autumn/Winter Collection on October 25th, showcasing 1,500 gorgeous products across multiple Home & Living categories. Sales in the first 4 days amounted to EUR 541k at 5,822 items sold.

COOPERATION WITH FASHION ICON CHIARA FERRAGNI

Westwing had a very successful cooperation with Europe's top fashion icon, Chiara Ferragni, who has 16 million followers on Instagram. We furnished Chiara's wardrobe and office with our stylish Own & Private Label products. The related posts got millions of customer reach and half a million engagements on social media and Chiara's "must have" products were sold out in many of our countries.

KITCHENAID PARTNERSHIP

Westwing presented a campaign with popular home appliance brand KitchenAid. The partnership was extremely successful with 31k KitchenAid products sold. We supported the partnership through a 360 degree marketing campaign across all our organic and social media marketing channels with a reach of over 26 million and 330k engagements across Europe.

LIMITED EDITION WESTWING CHRISTMAS BOX

Westwing's Limited Edition Christmas box was sold out in less than a day. The box consisted of 9 products, specially curated for the winter season, and was priced at just EUR 59. A third of the buyers of Westwing's Summer edition box also bought the Christmas box.

BLACK FRIDAY

Westwing satisfied our customers' craze for Black Friday by offering them a sprawling selection of products from signature brands like WMF, Missoni Home, Kartell, Menu, Westwing Collection and many more. We sold EUR 100 per second of GMV during the first few hours of Black Friday. Many of our customers thanked us for their beautiful new products and praised the quick delivery despite it being one of the busiest times for eCommerce.

Customer Highlights Q4 2018 (2/3)

Westwing introduced two extended versions of our super popular and trendy velvet dining chair "Rachel" from the Westwing Collection. One version with arm rests at a price of EUR 159 and a second version as a Bar stool at EUR 189. Both products proved very successful and were sold out in many colors for the initial batch.

CHAIR LINE

EXTENDED OUR POPULAR RACHEL

BIGGER PICTURES

Westwing has been working on making our sites and apps even more focused on the mobile-first experience. As part of this, we upgraded our mood images from 16:9 to 4:3, since having a more 'squarish' format gives us more room to communicate our inspirational offering to our customers. We continue to permanently work on increasing image sizes everywhere, as bigger is better with pictures.

UPSELLING COMPLEMENTARY PRODUCTS

Westwing launched an additional feature through which customers can easily purchase complementary accessories to the products they have in their basket. Our customers are now suggested the matching lightbulbs for their chosen lamps and pillow inlets for pillow covers. Through this feature we experienced a 5-8% increase in revenue per visitor on our accessories permanent offering.

COOPERATION WITH GERMAN INFLUENCER LEONIE HANNE

Westwing teamed up with Leonie Hanne, one of Germanys most successful influencers with 1.8m followers on Instagram. Delia and our team furnished Leonie's apartment in London with our beautiful Own & Private Label products. The furnishing was filmed by one of Germany's most watched lifestyle television shows "TAFF" and aired in January 2019.

WESTWING STYLE TREND GUIDE 2019

Westwing strives to be the trend setter in the Home & Living market, and so our creative team developed a style trend guide for 2019 led by our Chief Creative Officer and founder Delia Fischer. This internal 55-page booklet presents the biggest upcoming interior trends to guide all Westwing departments on how to make our customers fall in love with our products in 2019.

EASIER TO BUY RUGS

Westwing textiles and rugs is one of our largest product categories and therefore we introduced a new feature to make it easier to buy rugs on our website. Customers can view a zoomed-in picture of the rug already on the product listing pages of our permanent assortment WestwingNow instead of having to click on every product and then accessing the zoom function.

Customer Highlights Q4 2018 (3/3)

COOPERATION WITH SAMSUNG'S "THE FRAME"

Westwing launched our first cooperation with Samsung where we sold the iconic Samsung TV - The Frame, a product that perfectly blends electronics and Home and Living. The theme had 2.2x more visitors than an average daily theme.

FASTER NAVIGATION WITHIN A CATEGORY

Westwing has made navigating through our product pages of our permanent assortment the same as flipping through a shoppable magazine. By introducing a cross-category navigation bar on the top of our mobile sites and apps, customers can jump from one subcategory to another in one tap instead of having to go back to the overall product category menu each time.

SET DESIGN OF HIT POLISH COMEDY MOVIE "PLANET OF SINGLES"

Westwing Poland co-created the scenography for the one of the most anticipated Polish comedy movies of the year "Planet of singles". We displayed our furniture and decoration items for the movie sets and subsequently created a daily theme for our Polish customers to be able to shop the looks from the movie.

SUCCESSFUL PRIVATE LABEL DUVETS AND PILLOWS

Westwing's Private Label duvets and pillows are very popular among our customers for their fine quality and affordable prices. Customers bought more than 4,800 items resulting in EUR 361k of GMV through a 4-day theme in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

MEISSEN x WESTWING

Westwing had an exclusive cooperation with Meissen, a well-known premium porcelain manufacturer, where we launched a beautiful collection of Limited Edition porcelain cups and vide-poches. The products sold out on the first day of the campaign going live.

CHRISTMAS ASSORTMENT

Westwing released our Christmas assortment on our permanent assortment websites including fast delivery, so that customers could get their orders in time for Christmas. Our customers could shop everything for Christmas with over 1,900 products ranging from decorations to textiles and additional 1,500 products for gifts as well as 5 Christmas themed looks as inspiration.

Update on Supervisory Board

Comments

  • All current members of the Supervisory Board are independent
  • Two members have been with Westwing almost since founding
  • Two members joined in 2017/18 bringing in additional, valuable external insights and expertise
  • Oliver Samwer (Rocket Internet) has recently left and Christian Strain (Summit Partners) will leave the Supervisory Board upon personal request, after having supported Westwing since 2012
  • Both positions will remain vacant until the 2018 Annual General Meeting

Westwing Supervisory Board

Christoph Barchewitz (Chairman)

  • Independent
  • Co-CEO of Global Fashion Group
  • Former Investment Director at Kinnevik
  • Since 2014 in AB/SB

Michael Hoffman (Audit Chairman)

  • Independent
  • Former CEO of Lekkerland and Carl Zeiss Vision
  • Since 2018 in SB

Antonella Mei-Pochtler (Deputy Chairman)

  • Independent
  • Former Senior Partner Boston Consulting Group
  • Since 2017 in AB/SB

Thomas Harding

  • Independent
  • Investment professional at Bridford Group
  • Before at Access Industries
  • Since 2013 in AB/SB

Our focus 2019

  • Profitable Group growth fueled by excellent loyalty and 80+% of orders from repeat customers
  • Grow DACH strongly and improve profitability towards long-term 10+% Adj EBITDA target margin
  • Further roll out successful DACH business model internationally (incl bringing Italy on track)
  • Increase share of Own and Private Label further towards 50% strategic target: new categories, Westwing Collection launches
  • Take Organic Marketing to next level
  • Relentlessly improve customer experience with inspiring content, gorgeous merchandise, exciting sites/apps, further improving ops
  • Continue to run best-in-class cash efficiency on net working capital and capex for long-term shareholder return

AGENDA

  • Highlights
  • Financial update
  • Outlook and Q&A
  • Appendix

Revenue: Strong, profitable growth in 2018

DACH Segment Revenue (in EUR m)

Number of Active Customers and share of wallet steadily increasing

Note: All figures continuing operations (ie excluding Brazil and Russia)

19

Group profitable at 1% Adj EBITDA margin FY 2018 (+3%pts yoy)

International Segment Adj EBITDA (in % of Revenue)

20

Note: Preliminary and unaudited; All figures continuing operations (ie excluding Brazil and Russia); Adj EBITDA excluding share-based compensation expenses, IPO costs recognized in profit and loss and central costs allocated to discontinued operations (Brazil and Russia were sold in Oct/Nov 2018, central costs were allocated for full year due to eg ongoing handover)

FY 2017 FY 2018 Delta Q4 2017 Q4 2018 Delta
Revenue (EUR m) 220 254 15.6% 73 79 7.6%
Gross margin 42.0% 42.7% +0.7%pts 40.9% 43.0% +2.1%pts
Contribution margin 21.2% 21.0% -0.2%pts 21.5% 22.4% +0.9%pts
Marketing ratio -6.3% -7.0% -0.6%pts -5.3% -7.4% -2.1%pts
G&A ratio -20.5% -16.6% +3.9%pts -13.4% -16.0% -2.6%pts
D&A 2.3% 2.8% +0.5%pts 1.4% 2.4% +1.0%pts
Adj EBITDA -1.8% 1.2% +3.1pts 4.5% 2.3% -2.2%pts

21 Note: Preliminary and unaudited; All figures continuing operations (ie excluding Brazil and Russia); Adj EBITDA excluding share-based compensation expenses, IPO costs recognized in profit and loss and central costs allocated to discontinued operations (Brazil and Russia were sold in Oct/Nov 2018, central costs were allocated for full year due to eg ongoing handover); 1) One-off provision for planned move of Berlin warehouses impacting Contribution Margin and Adj EBITDA; Working Capital ratio based on LTM Revenue

Neutral Net Working Capital: Low inventories and strong supplier payment terms

22

Very strong balance sheet based on cash at hand and extremely cash-efficient business model

Westwing has best-in-class cash efficiency and net cash reserves of EUR 108m1

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AGENDA

  • Highlights
  • Financial update
  • Outlook and Q&A
  • Appendix

Guidance FY 2019

Revenue growth rate in line with 2018 level

• Growth 2019 to come mostly from second half of the year1

\$ Maintain best-in-class cash efficiency

AGENDA

  • Highlights
  • Financial update
  • Outlook and Q&A
  • Appendix
Group
KPIs
Unit Q1
2017
Q2
2017
Q3
2017
Q4
2017
Q1
2018
Q2
2018
Q3
2018
Q4
2018
and
Label
share
Own
Private
of
in
%
GMV
%
7
%
9
11% 12% 13% 15% 18% 18%
Active
customers
k
in
794 788 802 838 881 907 921 934
Number
of
orders
k
in
510 492 496 723 611 555 507 726
basket
size
Average
in
EUR
115 114 114 113 119 120 124 122
orders
active
Average
LTM
customer
per
in
#
2
6
2
7
2
6
2
7
2
6
2
6
2
6
2
6
Average
GMV
LTM
active
customer
per
in
EUR
289 293 297 301 302 305 307 312
GMV in
EUR
m
8
5
6
5
6
5
8
1
2
7
6
7
6
3
8
9
Mobile
share
visit
in
%
67% 69% 71% 71% 72% 73% 74% 74%

Consolidated income statement

of
m, in
%
EUR
revenue , unaudited
2017
FY
2018
FY
Q4
2017
Q4
2018
Revenue 220 254 73 79
of
Sales
Cost
-127 -145 -43 -45
profit
Gross
92 108 30 34
Fulfilment
expenses
-47 -54 -15 -16
Marketing
expenses
-14 -18 -4 -6
General
and
administrative
expenses
-55 -56 -16 -23
Other
operating
expenses
-1 -1 -0 -0
Other
operating
income
1 1 0 0
result
Operating
-24 -20 -5 -11
Financial
result
-8 -7 -1 1
before
Result
income
tax
-32 -26 -6 -10
Income
tax
expense
-0 0 0 1
Result
for
the
period
from
continuing
operations
-33 -26 -6 -10
Result
for
the
period
from
discontinued
operations
1 24 1 23
Result
for
the
period
-32 -2 -6 13
Reconciliation
Adj
EBITDA
to
(EBIT)
Operating
result
-24 -20 -5 -11
Share-based
expenses from
compensation
continuing
operations
11 8 7 10
recognized
profit
or loss
IPO
in
costs
0 4 0 1
Central
allocated
discontinued
operations
costs
to
4 3 1 1
D&A 5 7 1 2
Adj
EBITDA
-4 3 3 2
(%)
Adj
margin
EBITDA
8%
-1
2%
1
5%
4
3%
2

30 Note: Preliminary and unaudited; All figures continuing operations (ie excluding Brazil and Russia); Adj EBITDA excluding share-based compensation expenses, IPO costs recognized in profit and loss and central costs allocated to discontinued operations (Brazil and Russia were sold in Oct/Nov 2018, central costs were allocated for full year due to eg ongoing handover)

Adjusted income statement

of
in
%
EUR
m,
revenue
, unaudited
2017
FY
2018
FY
Q4
2017
Q4
2018
Revenue 220 254 7
3
7
9
Growth
Revenue
YoY
7
0%
15
6%
15
5%
7
6%
of
Sales
Cost
-127 -145 -43 -45
Profit
Gross
9
2
108 3
0
3
4
Gross
Margin
42
0%
42
7%
40
9%
43
0%
Fulfillment
expenses
-46 -55 -14 -16
Contribution
profit
4
6
5
3
1
6
1
8
Contribution
margin
2%
21
0%
21
5%
21
4%
22
Marketing
expenses
-14 -18 -4 -6
General
and
administrative
expenses
-45 -42 -10 -13
Other
operating
expenses
-1 -1 -0 -0
Other
operating
income
1 1 0 0
Central
allocated
discontinued
operations
costs
to
4 3 1 1
and
Depreciation
Amortization
5 7 1 2
Adj
EBITDA
-4 3 3 2
Adj
Margin
EBITDA
-1
8%
1
2%
4
5%
2
3%

Segment reporting

(in
m)
EUR
, unaudited
DACH FY
2017
FY
2018
Q4
2017
Q4
2018
Revenue 98 133 35 44
(in
%)
Growth
YoY
23% 36% 34% 25%
Adj
EBITDA
1 6 3 3
Adj
Margin
%
EBITDA
3%
1
3%
4
4%
7
1%
7
International FY
2017
FY
2018
Q4
2017
Q4
2018
Revenue 122 121 38 35
Growth
(in
%)
YoY
-3% -1% 2% -9%
Adj
EBITDA
-5 -3 1 -1
Adj
EBITDA
Margin
%
-4
2%
-2
2%
2
0%
-4
1%

Selected figures consolidated balance sheet and cash flow statement

(in
m)
EUR
, unaudited
Assets FY
2017
FY
2018
Non-Current
Assets
14 33
Current
Assets
49 164
thereof
cash
14 123
Total
Assets
63 197
Total
Liabilities
Equity
+
FY
2017
FY
2018
Equity -66 105
Liabilities
Non-current
56 32
liabilities
Current
73 60
Total
Liabilities
and
Equity
63 197
Cash
flow
FY
2017
FY
2018
Operating
activities
-8 -10
Investing
activities
-5 4
Financing
activities
11 114

33 Note: Preliminary and unaudited; Balance sheet continuing operations starting FY 2018, Cash Flow figures continuing operations FY 2017 and FY 2018.

OUR MISSION

To inspire and make

beautiful home

every home a