Thule Group increases focus on Outdoor&Bags – divests Snow Chain business

Thule Group has signed an agreement to divest its Snow Chain business to
Schneketten AG – an Austrian company in the snow chain industry. The divestment
will allow Thule Group management to continue focus more on driving growth in
the core Outdoor&Bags segment.
In line with the strategic direction to focus the Thule Group’s business on
outdoor and sport products for active consumers, Thule Group has today signed an
agreement to divest its Snow Chain business to Schneketten AG, a leading company
within the snow chain sector.

Magnus Welander, CEO of Thule Group:
“Our strategic focus is to continue to build on our market leading position in
developing products that make it easy for active consumers around the world to
bring the things they care for, when pursuing their interests. In this context,
the Snow Chain business was no longer a core business for us.”

The Snow Chain division posted sales of 136 MSEK and a negative underlying EBIT
of -32 MSEK in 2014. The financial results for the Thule Group proforma in 2014,
excluding Snow Chains, would have been an underlying EBIT of 718 MSEK (2014
reported: 686 MSEK), with a higher underlying EBIT margin of 15.8 percent (2014
reported: 14.6 percent).

The purchase price consist of two components; an initial amount of 10 MEUR and
an earn out amount (based on snow chain sales for the coming two winter seasons)
of maximum an additional 10 MEUR. Half of the possible earn out component will
be accounted for in the Q3 financials for the Thule Group. The divestment will
lead to a reported capital loss of approximately 120 MSEK and an initial
estimated positive cash effect of approximately 90 MSEK in Q3, 2015.

The Snow Chain division has 145 employees, with the majority employed at the
production site in Molteno, Italy, where also the head office is located.

The sale is not conditional on any governmental or other external conditions and
is implemented today, September 2, 2015.

In connection to this divestment, the Board of Directors have also initiated a
strategic review for the Thule Group’s remaining business within the Specialty
Segment, the Work Gear business in the US.

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For further information please contact:

Magnus Welander
CEO and President Thule Group
Phone: +46-703 325 504
e-mail : magnus.welander@thule.com

Fredrik Erlandsson
SVP Communications and IR, Thule Group
Phone: +46-70 309 00 21
e-mail: fredrik.erlandsson@thule.com
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About Thule Group
Thule Group is world leader in products that make it easy to bring the things
you care for – easily, securely and in style, when living an active life.
Under the motto Active Life, Simplified. we offer products within two segments:
Outdoor&Bags (e.g. equipment for cycling, water and winter sports, roof boxes,
bike trailers, baby joggers, laptop and camera bags, backpacks and cases for
mobile handheld devices) and Specialty (pick-up truck tool boxes).
Our products are sold in 136 markets globally. There are more than 2,000 of us
working for Thule Group at nine production facilities and more than 35 sales
locations all over the world. Net sales for 2014 amounted to 4.7 billion SEK.
Thule Group is a public company listed at Nasdaq Stockholm.
For more information, please visit www.thulegroup.com