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Signify and ELEKTRON agree on distribution partnership in Austria

Vienna, Austria - Signify, world market leader for lighting, has agreed a partner deal with ELEKTRON AG for the distribution of municipal outdoor lighting1 in Austria. In the middle of the year, the company had already announced a reorientation of its sales in the Alpine republic, which will increasingly rely on cooperation with external partners. The cooperation with the leading Swiss technology company ELEKTRON will now put this focus into practice from next spring. A similar partnership between the two companies has already existed in Switzerland for many years.

"Our goal as a leading provider of professional lighting solutions is to reorganize our sales throughout the DACH region with an eye to the future. To this end, we also want to rely increasingly on partner business in the Austrian market." "We are very pleased to have found a perfect partner for this in ELEKTRON and to be able to build on the extremely successful cooperation in Switzerland."

Karsten Vierke, CEO Signify DACH

As the market leader in street lighting, the long-established Swiss company ELEKTRON AG has decades of experience in outdoor lighting. In addition to the issue of energy efficiency, lighting quality and light emissions play an important role in ELEKTRON's solutions. The company is also driving forward the digitalization of public infrastructures, assigning a central role to the street lighting network. For Enrico Baumann, CEO of ELEKTRON AG, the expansion of the collaboration means a great deal:

"We are pleased to soon be able to act as a partner for Signify in Austria as well. This is a confirmation that we are on the right track with our concept for Smart Street Lighting."

In order to implement the future partnership in Austria in a comprehensive and future-oriented manner, ELEKTRON intends to establish a new company. Signify's partnership with ELEKTRON will go beyond pure product sales. Together with the newly founded company, ELEKTRON will also take care of other aspects and services such as planning, commissioning and after-sales management for Austrian customers, as well as marketing the IoT solution Interact City (CityTouch) and providing service support for existing customers. The cooperation is scheduled to start in spring 2020.

1In addition to selling professional outdoor lighting, ELEKTRON will act as a value added partner for system integration of the Interact City IoT platform for networking smart lighting. ELEKTRON thus expands its value added partnership with Signify to the entire DACH region.

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Medienmitteilung Partnerschaft Signify und ELEKTRON

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About Signify

Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) is the global leader in lighting and illumination solutions for professionals, consumers and lighting in the Internet of Things. With our Philips products, connected Interact lighting systems and data-driven services, we add value to businesses and transform lives at home, in buildings and in urban spaces. With 2018 sales of €6.4 billion, around 27,000 employees and a presence in more than 70 countries, we unlock the extraordinary potential of light for a more comfortable life and a better world. We were named industry leader in sustainability for the third consecutive year by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. For news from Signify, visit the Newsroom, Twitter and LinkedIn, and Instagram. For investor information, visit Investor Relations.

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About ELEKTRON AG

The leading Swiss technology company is actively engaged in the energy and infrastructure market for resource minimization by increasing energy efficiency. As a competent integrator, ELEKTRON AG combines individual customer needs with the appropriate technology partners. In this way, intelligent solutions for efficient systems are created in the business areas of drives, electronics, payment systems, smart city and lighting.

As a market leader in street lighting, ELEKTRON recognized early on that luminaires offer far more than just light. In addition to branching out from the center to the neighborhoods, street lighting brings with it ideal prerequisites for becoming the carrier infrastructure for smart applications. This is how smart cities are emerging today around the digital light point.

For the latest information on ELEKTRON, visit the news page and Linkedin.

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