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fashionette plans its initial public offering

- A leading European data-driven online platform for premium and luxury fashion accessories with a focus on the German, Austrian and Swiss region

- Leading brand recognition for premium and luxury handbags in Germany with a constantly growing fashion accessories portfolio

- Well-positioned category leader capturing the accelerating shift from offline to online through a loyal and affluent customer base with outsized and increasing annual order values

- Solid financial performance with sustained double-digit revenue growth - nine months ended 30 September 2020 expected revenue +24% year on year

- Multi-year track record of profitability - 2019 EBITDA margin of 9.3%

- Offering of newly issued shares and existing shares from the holdings of the major shareholder GENUI as well as a customary over-allotment option

- Proceeds from the new shares to be used to drive fashionette's long-term growth strategy via increased marketing, to broaden its product selection and for regional expansion as well as selective acquisitions

- Listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2020

Dusseldorf, 12 October 2020. fashionette AG ("fashionette" or "Company"), an online market leader for premium and luxury handbags in Germany, intends to list its shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Scale) in the fourth quarter of 2020. The offering would comprise an initial public offering ("IPO") to retail and institutional investors in Germany as well as private placements to institutional investors in certain jurisdictions excluding, among others, Canada, Australia and Japan.

The planned IPO consists of a new share issue by the Company, a placement of existing shares from the holdings of Genui Fund GmbH & Co. KG ("GENUI"), the major shareholder of the Company, and a customary over-allotment option. The IPO proceeds will be used primarily to pursue the long-term organic and inorganic growth strategy via increased marketing, to broaden its product selection as well as for regional expansion together with selective acquisitions.

Daniel Raab, CEO of fashionette, comments: "fashionette aims to be the leading European online platform for premium and luxury fashion accessories in the highly fragmented premium and luxury fashion accessories market. We are a truly data-driven company using technology and data as the basis for all our Company's processes, starting with the exact understanding of what our customers' needs are and a curation of our product selection catered to these desires. It is our mission to create a better and personalized customer experience and constantly improving our operational efficiency and effectiveness. The key element of our strategy is to continue to focus on our profitable growth at above-market rates. Therefore, the IPO is the natural next step for us to raise brand awareness and to scale our business model to other European countries."

A leading data-driven platform for fashion accessories

fashionette is a leading European data-driven online platform for premium and luxury fashion accessories having established a market-leading brand recognition in the German online market for premium and luxury handbags. fashionette has one of the most relevant assortments in the market, comprising some 11,000 products from more than 150 international brands.

It is fashionette's mission to offer personalized online shopping of premium and luxury fashion accessories available to all customers, that both transcend short term fashion trends and have a long-lasting appeal. For this purpose, the Company focuses on offering a wide but well assorted and curated range of premium and luxury fashion accessories at a superior service level.

Founded in 2008, the Company operates websites under the "fashionette" brand addressing eight countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom) with the German, Austrian and Swiss region as its core region accounting for close to 90% of its revenues in 2019. The Company's leading-edge approach is based on its proprietary technology platform. At fashionette, technology and business intelligence are used as tools to more than just meet the growing demand of customers for a personalized shopping experience. Today, fashionette has more than 140 employees to continuously improve the customer experience.

Highly experienced management team

fashionette's management team, consisting of Daniel Raab (CEO) and Thomas Buhl (COO/CTO), joined together in early 2019 to further develop the business through regional expansion, M&A and data-driven insights. The management board is cultivating a data-driven operating model in a rather traditional-minded and emotion-driven industry. It believes to have a unique blend of experience in all aspects of the retail business including a true e-commerce mindset and a deep understanding of technology developed in combined almost 20 years with Amazon in Germany and the United States. Daniel Raab, who previously worked in the fashion and fashion accessories industry for companies including Hermès and Gucci, was also one of the founding managing directors of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE's strategic investment arm ProSiebenSat.1 Commerce GmbH. During this time, Daniel Raab was able to gain relevant acquisition and integration experience with companies like Germany's leading online-pure-play beauty retailer Flaconi GmbH.

The management board's entrepreneurial spirit and long-term commitment are underpinned by their financial investment as existing shareholders. The management team are long term shareholders dedicated to the business and will not sell any shares as part of the IPO.

Focused growth strategy

The key element of the Company's strategy is to continue to focus on its profitable growth at above-market rates. The Company aims to become the leading online platform for premium and luxury fashion accessories in Europe.

To achieve this, fashionette plans to accelerate its organic growth and market segment share through the expansion of its product selection and product categories as well as geographic expansion. In addition to these organic growth initiatives, fashionette will seize inorganic growth opportunities through selected acquisitions to drive regional and category expansion.

fashionette is also benefiting from the accelerating shift from offline to online. The Company estimates the total market opportunity in the European premium and luxury fashion accessories market to be approximately EUR 100 billion of the total market size in annual consumer spending calculated from relevant segments within the Statista Consumer Market Outlook of July 2020. The European luxury goods online market is forecasted to achieve a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 17% for the years 2020 to 2025.

Strong growth at market-leading profitability

fashionette is well-positioned in the European premium and luxury fashion accessories market. The Company has already demonstrated solid double-digit year-on-year organic growth with a multi-year track-record of EBITDA profitability since 2013.

In 2019, the Company realized EUR 73.2 million revenue resulting in EUR 6.8 million EBITDA and an EBITDA margin of 9.3%. For the nine months ended 30 September 2020, the Company estimates that it has accelerated revenue growth, with expected revenues of EUR 62.0 million translating into +24% period over period growth compared to the nine months ended 30 September 2019.

The main driver for growth in the six months ended 30 June 2020 were orders from new customers (+35.8% period of period) and orders from active customers (+30.0% period of period) with an average order value of EUR 284. This resulted in an EBITDA of EUR 2.8 million in the six months ended 30 June 2020 (EUR 2.5 million in the six months ended 30 June 2019) and an EBITDA margin of 7.3% in the six months ended 30 June 2020 (7.5% in the six months ended 30 June 2019).

With logistics costs of 6.9% of revenue in the six months ended 30 June 2020 (6.2% for the six months ended 30 June 2019), the Company also believes it benefits from low logistics costs as a percentage of revenue. Lower logistic costs result from constantly improving the Company's operational processes and a high average order value of EUR 284.

In addition, the Company follows a data-driven approach to marketing which leads to an effective deployment of its marketing investments. In the six months ended 30 June 2020, marketing cost as a percentage of order value was 5.3% (5.8% in the six months ended 30 June 2019), also achieving a positive CLV (customer lifetime value)/CAC (customer acquisition costs) ratio with a customer's very first order. With the Company's high customer loyalty positively impacting the CLV over time, the Company's CLV/CAC ratio rises significantly with older customer cohorts.

Hauck & Aufhäuser will act as Sole Global Coordinator and Sole Bookrunner for the IPO.

About fashionette:

fashionette is a leading European data-driven online platform for premium and luxury fashion accessories including handbags, shoes, sunglasses, watches and jewelry. Since its foundation in 2008, fashionette has established a market-leading brand recognition for premium and luxury handbags in its core market of Germany. The focus of fashionette is to make personalized online shopping of premium and luxury fashion accessories available to every woman in Europe. For additional information about fashionette, please visit fashionette's websites at corporate.fashionette.com (Corporate Website) and www.fashionette.com (webshop).

About GENUI:

GENUI is a private investment firm established by a group of exceptional entrepreneurs and investment experts who believe in "Good Entrepreneurship". GENUI makes investments in excellent medium-sized companies with the aim of actively supporting its partners in achieving high-quality growth and providing a value-add to the stakeholders in a broader sense. Every company is supported within a governance framework by long-term experienced investment professionals and one dedicated entrepreneur, who provides access to expertise and a network suited to the company's endeavored development. For additional information about GENUI, please visit GENUI's website at www.genui.de.

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