Press Releases and Notices

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2024-10-02 centrata The Hera Group’s Director of Investor Relations, Jens Klint Hansen, received the Rising IR Professional 2024 award during the Italian Investor Relations Awards ceremony, organised by the Investor Relations Association in collaboration with Nasdaq and Extel. The event took place at the headquarters of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti in Milan, and the results were published on the Nasdaq Tower in Times Square in New York. Extel, an independent research provider with a strong reputation among institutional investors and financial analysts that has been operating in the market for over 50 years, gave Hansen this award “for the significant increase in the consensus obtained from investors and analysts in the main financial centres”. “I am grateful to receive this award, which confirms how much the financial community appreciates the management of transparent and reliable relations, consolidating the market’s trust in the Hera Group and its strategy for growth. This wealth of relationships goes to the benefit of all stakeholders,” remarked Jens Klint Hansen. After overseeing Hera’s IPO in June 2003, since January 2010 Hansen has been the Group’s Director of Investor Relations, entrusted with defining, implementing and managing communication strategies and relations with financial market institutions.   20241002 Hera Group - Jens Klint Hansen Rising IR Professional 2024.pdf 11:50:00 sede_hera_110-2.jpg Read the Press Release sede_hera_110-2.jpg

2024-09-24 Included once again in the TOP 100 of the FTSE Russell (formerly Refinitiv) international index, the Group ranked 3rd in Italy and 19th globally among the 100 most inclusive and diversity-conscious companies. This comes as further recognition of the Group’s commitment to creating an inclusive and people-friendly corporate culture. centrata For the 9th consecutive year, the Hera Group has been confirmed as one of the world’s Top 100 companies most attentive to diversity and inclusion, according to the recognition given by the FTSE Diversity and Inclusion Index, the international index designed by FTSE Russell (formerly Refinitiv). The Group ranked top multi-utility overall, 3rd among Italian companies and 19th globally in the ranking compiled on the basis of data collected by FTSE Russell at 30 June 2024. This international benchmarking company analysed more than 15,500 listed companies worldwide, which were assessed according to 24 parameters divided into four pillars: gender diversity, inclusion, people development and controversies. This further recognition confirms the Hera Group’s commitment to reducing inequalities, enhancing diversity and fostering people development in order to create an inclusive corporate culture that is attentive to the uniqueness of individuals and capable of creating broader solutions that benefit the company and all its stakeholders. Fairness and inclusion are also among the main pillars of the Good Work Deal signed in July with the trade unions. This broad, innovative and programmatic document represents a historic deal with the trade unions and provides an unprecedented instrument to companies in the sector. The new elements contained in the Agreement include a commitment to support parenting, frail persons, and caregivers, the valorisation of diverse abilities, investment in the growth and wellbeing of the Group’s people, the fight against gender-based violence and the promotion of inclusion. These results are achieved through concrete actions and by building a culture of fairness and inclusion. Since its inception, the Group has promoted initiatives aimed at gender equality along a path whose most significant milestones include the signing of the Charter for Equal Opportunities and Equality at Work, launched in Italy in 2009, the establishment in 2011 of a Diversity Management working group made up of colleagues from various company departments, the approval in 2024 by the Hera Group’s Board of Directors of the “Gender Equality Policy”, the appointment of a Guidance Committee to ensure its effective adoption and, finally, the achievement for its 11 largest companies of gender equality certification in accordance with the UNI/PdR 125:2022 reference practice.   20240924 - PR Hera ranks as world’s top multi-utility in the FTSE Diversity & Inclusion Index.pdf 2024-09-24 11:05:00 sede_hera_110-2.jpg Read the Press Release sede_hera_110-2.jpg

The consolidated half-year report at 30 June indicates growth in the Group’s main operating-financial indicators and shows its considerable financial solidity, fully in line with the targets set out in the Business Plan. With the approval of its Climate Transition Plan, with a Net Zero target by 2050, Hera has once again confirmed its commitment to the sustainable development of the areas it serves, creating value for all stakeholders.