AUSTRIACARD HOLDINGS AG (the “Company”), following its previous announcement dated June 12, 2026, regarding the publication by Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (“DNP”) of the prospectus, hereby announces that the Company’s Management Board and Supervisory Board today issued their reasoned opinions (“Reasoned Opinions”) regarding DNP’s Voluntary Public Tender Offer (the “Offer”), in accordance with Section 14 of the Austrian Public Tender Offer Act.
Both the Management Board and the Supervisory Board recommend that the Company’s shareholders accept the Offer and tender their shares in response to the Offer.
In addition, LeitnerLeitner Audit Partners GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfer, acting as the Company’s financial expert pursuant to Section 13 of the Austrian Act on Public Takeover Bids, issued today its valuation report regarding the Offer and the Reasoned Opinions.
The Reasoned Opinions and the financial expert’s evaluation report will be published today on, among other places, the Company’s website (www.austriacard.com) and the Austrian Public Takeover Board’s website (www.takeover.at).
* See the opinion of the Board of Directors in the “Related Materials” section.