Pliezhausen, June 1, 2025. Today, Dante Beteiligungen SE (“Bidder”) informed DATAGROUP SE (WKN A0JC8S) about an increase of the offer price for the public purchase offer to the shareholders of DATGROUP SE which is conditional upon the success of the public purchase offer as follows:

• If, at the expiration of the acceptance period, the public purchase offer has been accepted for at least 80% (but less than 90%) of the outstanding DATAGROUP Shares (including DATAGROUP Shares acquired by the Bidder outside of the public purchase offer), the offer price will increase to EUR 56.50 per DATAGROUP Share.
• If, at the expiration of the acceptance period, the public purchase offer has been accepted for at least 90% of the outstanding DATAGROUP Shares (including DATAGROUP Shares acquired by the Bidder outside of the public purchase offer), the offer price will increase to EUR 58.00 per DATAGROUP Share.

Basis for the determination of the respective threshold of 80% and 90%, respectively, is the total number of 8,349,000 DATAGROUP Shares outstanding. As of today, Bidder has secured c. 59.4% of the outstanding DATAGROUP Shares.

In case none of the aforementioned thresholds of 80% or 90% will be met, the offer price will remain unchanged and amount to EUR 54.00 per DATAGROUP Share.

The Bidder expressly ruled out a further increase of the offer price.

The respective offer amendment by Dante Beteiligungen SE will be published on the internet under www.dante-offer.com.

Pliezhausen, April 15, 2025. DATAGROUP SE (“DATAGROUP” or “Company“, WKN A0JC8S) and Dante Beteiligungen SE (currently named Blitz 25-345 SE) (“Bidder“), a holding company controlled by investment funds, vehicles and accounts advised and managed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co L.P. and its affiliates (collectively, “KKR“), have signed an investment agreement regarding the terms and conditions of a strategic investment by the Bidder in DATAGROUP.

Bidder intends to launch a public purchase offer for all outstanding shares of DATAGROUP at a price of EUR 54.00 per share in cash (“Offer”). This represents a premium of c. 33% to the XETRA closing share price of the DATAGROUP Shares on April 15, 2025. The management board and the supervisory board of DATAGROUP, which have approved entering into the investment agreement today, support the Offer which they consider to be fair and attractive and intend to recommend the acceptance of the Offer to the shareholders of DATAGROUP. The members of the supervisory board and the management board have confirmed that they will also tender all DATAGROUP shares personally held by them into the Offer.

Concurrently with the signing of the investment agreement, Dante Lux HoldCo S.à r.l., an indirect parent company of the Bidder, Dante HoldCo SE (currently named Blitz 25-344 SE), the parent company of the Bidder, Bidder and Max H.-H. Schaber and his family holding company HHS Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (“HHS”), the majority shareholder of DATAGROUP, have entered into a strategic partnership and signed an agreement pursuant to which HHS will indirectly transfer its existing 54.4% stake in the registered share capital of DATAGROUP to the Bidder. This transfer will occur outside the public purchase offer and is subject to separate arrangements and conditions and will result in a long-term joint control by KKR and HHS as indirect 50:50 shareholders of the Bidder following completion of the Offer.

The Bidder and DATAGROUP have further agreed in the investment agreement on a delisting which is expected to be implemented immediately after the settlement of the Offer. A separate delisting offer will not be required. In the investment agreement between DATAGROUP and Bidder, Bidder has committed for a period of two years not to seek or enter into a domination and profit and loss transfer agreement (DPLTA) with DATAGROUP. KKR has underwritten the transaction entirely with equity provided by its funds.

The completion of the Offer will be subject to customary conditions, including regulatory clearances. The Offer will not be subject to a minimum acceptance threshold. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2025. Further details of the Offer including its terms and conditions will be set out in the offer document upon the publication of which the acceptance period of the Offer will commence. Since the DATAGROUP shares are not listed for trading on an organized market, the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act (Wertpapiererwerbs- und Übernahmegesetz) does not apply to the Offer.

Pliezhausen, January 9, 2025. DATAGROUP SE (“DATAGROUP”, WKN A0JC8S) has completed the review of the spin-off of its 100 % stake in Almato AG (“Almato”) to a separate company as a new holding company. DATAGROUP has come to the conclusion that the planned advantages of a spin-off in the current market environment cannot be achieved with certainty through a spin-off and a subsequent listing of the shares of this company. Accordingly, this measure will not be proposed to the Annual General Meeting of DATAGROUP SE on March 18, 2025 for resolution. Due to the currently difficult conditions in the small and especially in the micro cap segment, DATAGROUP does not expect that a spin-off of Almato with a subsequent listing on the open market would be able to realize its higher valuation with sufficient certainty and would thus contribute to an increase in shareholder value.

DATAGROUP will therefore push the further development of Almato and especially of the semantic data platform Bardioc under its own roof until further notice. However, DATAGROUP is keeping its options open for the future carve-out of the company at a later stage.

Pliezhausen, December 9, 2024. DATAGROUP SE (WKN A0JC8S) has completed its share buyback offer announced on November 16, 2024.

As part of this voluntary public share buyback offer, 50,756 were tendered to the company at a price of EUR 42.13; this corresponds to 0.6 % of the share capital. As a result, DATAGROUP SE now holds a total of 68,297 treasury shares (corresponding to approx. 0.8 % of the share capital). The treasury shares can be used for all statutory options such as redemption, use to finance company takeovers and also for employee share programs. The level of the acceptance rate should be seen in the context of the positive share price performance following the announcement of various measures to increase shareholder value on November 16, 2024.

The Management Board will decide on possible further measures, such as a new buyback offer or a return to the previous dividend policy. The focus will continue to be on shareholder value.

• Spin-off of the shares in Almato AG with separate stock market Listing under Review
• Public Share Buyback Offer
• Change of the listing of DATAGROUP SE shares to segment m:access

Pliezhausen, November 16, 2024: DATAGROUP SE (WKN A0JC8S) announces a (proportionate) spin-off of its 100 % stake in Almato AG in accordance with the provisions of the German Transformation Act (UmwG). Almato AG is active in the field of digitalization of business processes and software development.

Subject to further reviews, it is planned to conduct a spin-off of the shares in Almato AG to a separate company functioning as a new holding company for Almato AG. The shares of this holding company will then be traded on the open market (Freiverkehr). All shareholders of DATAGROUP SE are expected to receive one new share in the new Almato Holding per each of their shares in DATAGROUP SE. With the spin-off, the Management Board and the Supervisory Board are considering the differences in the business models of DATAGROUP and Almato. While DATAGROUP focuses on IT outsourcing with its modular CORBOX portfolio, Almato focuses on the digitalization of business processes and software development for companies and public institutions. The separation of the companies is intended to create the opportunity for Almato to develop and establish a new business area in the field of semantic data platforms and, with increased transparency for this business area, to target investors for the planned growth course. The Management Board and Supervisory Board intend to propose this measure to the Annual General Meeting of DATAGROUP SE for approval. The company will keep its shareholders informed of the progress of the process on an ongoing basis.

Based on the authorization granted by the Annual General Meeting on 9 March 2023, the Management Board and Supervisory Board also resolved today to acquire up to 817,359 treasury shares (approx. 9.79 % of the company’s current share capital) as part of a share buyback offer. In view of this share buyback offer and the associated potential distribution of liquidity to shareholders, it is not currently planned to propose to the upcoming Annual General Mee­ting of DATAGROUP SE a dividend distribution for the financial year 2023/2024, which ended on September 30, 2024.

The repurchase is to take place within the framework of a voluntary public share buyback offer against payment of a cash consideration of EUR 42.13 per share (excluding ancillary acquisition costs). Shareholders may submit shares for repurchase in the period from November 20, 2024, 00:00 hours to December 3, 2024, 24:00 hours (Frankfurt am Main local time). The buyback offer may be adjusted, extended, suspended and resumed by the company at any time, to the extent necessary and legally permissible.

The repurchased shares can be utilized for all statutory purposes such as redemption, financing of acquisitions of companies and also for employee stock option programs.

Further details of the public buyback offer can be found in the offer document, which is expected to be published on November 20, 2024, i.e. on the day the acceptance period begins, on the company’s website under https://www.datagroup.de/en/investing/ir-information and in the Federal Gazette (Bundesanzeiger).

In addition, the company plans to move from the Scale segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to the m:access segment of the Munich Stock Exchange. The trading opportunities in these segments are comparable. The company will maintain the current level of transparency. The change of the listing segment also takes place against the background that the legislator is considering introducing additional regulatory requirements for the Scale segment as an SME growth market, which do not apply to the other qualified segments of the open market (Freiverkehr). For reasons of flexibility, the company had previously made a conscious decision to refrain from a listing in a more strictly regulated market segment. By switching to the established m:access, the company retains the regulatory status quo. In addition, lower costs are incurred in m:access.

Pliezhausen, September 28, 2021. DATAGROUP SE (WKN: A0JC8S) is reshaping its Management Board for the time after Max H.-H. Schaber. Mr. Schaber will resign from office at the end of the 2022 Annual General Meeting and will stand for election to the Supervisory Board during the Annual General Meeting.

Pliezhausen, Thursday, May 6, 2021. On Thursday, May 6, DATAGROUP SE (WKN A0JC8S) has signed a participation agreement with the shareholders of URANO Informationssysteme GmbH based in Bad Kreuznach. DATAGROUP thus massively strengthens its business with high-quality IT services in the Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse regions.

The transaction comprises 70 % of the shares in URANO Informationssysteme GmbH and a purchase option for the remaining 30 % of the shares after two years.

URANO has roughly 300 employees providing IT services for private sector and public sector organizations. The company is expected to generate revenues of some EUR 50m in the current fiscal year (01.01.-31.12.2021). URANO serves a variety of customers headquartered in Germany. For many years, the company has been a reliable partner for public authorities in Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse and recently provided significant support in setting up and running the vaccination centers in Hesse. This customer structure ideally supplements DATAGROUP’s focus on predominantly Mittelstand companies and complements it in regional terms.