Annual General Meeting of Hornbach Holding: Vanessa Stützle elected as new Supervisory Board member

• Change in Supervisory Board: Vanessa Stützle is newly elected to Supervisory Board and assumes position previously held by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens P. Wulfsberg
• Dividend of Euro 2.40 approved
• All proposals submitted by Supervisory Board and Board of Management accepted by majority of shareholders

Bornheim (Pfalz), Germany, July 8, 2022.

The Annual General Meeting of Hornbach Holding AG & Co. KGaA today elected Vanessa Stützle, currently Chief Digital Officer and a Member of the Management at the Douglas Group, as a new member of the Supervisory Board. She is assuming the position previously held by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens P. Wulfsberg, who stood down from his position as a member of the Supervisory Board as of the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting on July 8, 2022 and who had himself been elected to the Supervisory Board of Hornbach Baumarkt AG at that company’s Annual General Meeting on July 7, 2022.

Vanessa Stützle has been Chief Digital Officer and a Member of the Management at the Douglas Group since May 2020 and is responsible for e-commerce, the partner program, omni-channel, CRM, retail media sales, performance marketing, and data strategy. A graduate in business administration, she previously held the role of Executive Vice President with responsibility for the online business and customer relationship management at the Douglas Group. From September 2022, she will move to become the new CEO at the Luqom Group, Europe’s leading e-commerce platform for lamps and lighting solutions. Given her longstanding activity as an e-commerce specialist, Vanessa Stützle can contribute far-reaching expertise in digitalization, a key area for the Hornbach Group.

The Supervisory Board of Hornbach Holding AG & Co. KGaA will in future therefore comprise the following members:

All other proposals submitted by the Board of Management and Supervisory Board were also accepted by a majority of shareholders, including the distribution of a dividend of Euro 2.40 for the 2021/22 financial year (2020/21: Euro 2.00).

About HORNBACH Group

HORNBACH Group is an independent, family-run retail group under the umbrella of HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA, which is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and represented in the SDAX. The largest subsidiary, HORNBACH Baumarkt AG, operates 169 DIY megastores with garden centers as well as two specialist stores and online stores in nine European countries. The Group also includes HORNBACH Baustoff Union, a regional builders' merchant company with 37 locations in southwestern Germany and France, as well as HORNBACH Immobilien AG, which develops retail real estate for the Group. In the financial year 2021/22 (reporting date: February 28, 2022), the HORNBACH Group generated net sales of Euro 5.9 billion, making it one of the five largest DIY and garden retail companies in Europe. The Group has a workforce of around 25,000 employees.

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