INTERIM REPORT FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED 31 MARCH 2024

Translation from the Italian original which remains the definitive version.

INTERIM REPORT ON OPERATIONS

AT 31 MARCH 2024

Poste Italiane Group

Interim Report on Operations at 31 March 2024

CONTENTS

INTERIM REPORT ON OPERATIONS AT 31 MARCH 2024

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1.READING GUIDE

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2. HIGHLIGHTS

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3. OUTLOOK

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4. CORPORATE STRUCTURE OF THE GROUP, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND

ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

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4.1 POSTE ITALIANE'S CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

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4.2 POSTE ITALIANE ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

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4.3 OWNERSHIP AND SHARE PERFORMANCE

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4.4 CORPORATE STRUCTURE OF THE GROUP AND PRINCIPAL CORPORATE ACTIONS DURING THE

PERIOD

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5. STRATEGY, INNOVATION AND DIGITALISATION, RISK MANAGEMENT

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5.1 MAIL, PARCELS AND DISTRIBUTION STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNIT

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5.2 FINANCIAL SERVICES STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNIT

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5.3 INSURANCE SERVICES STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNIT

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5.4 POSTEPAY SERVICES STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNIT

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5.5 OMNICHANNEL APPROACH, INNOVATION AND DIGITALISATION

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5.6. RISK MANAGEMENT

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6. CREATION OF VALUE

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6.1 GROUP OPERATING RESULTS

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6.2 GROUP FINANCIAL POSITION AND CASH FLOW

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7. OTHER INFORMATION

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7.1 SIGNIFICANT EVENTS AFTER 31 MARCH 2024

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7.2 SIGNIFICANT TRANSACTIONS

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7.3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, WELFARE AND CORPORATE UNIVERSITY

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8. APPENDIX

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8.1 RECLASSIFIED STATEMENT OF PROFIT OR LOSS AND STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

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8.2. ALTERNATIVE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

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CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AT 31 MARCH 2024

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1. INTRODUCTION

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2. BASIS OF PRESENTATION, METHODOLOGIES AND ACCOUNTING POLICIES APPLIED

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3. MATERIAL EVENTS

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4. POSTE ITALIANE GROUP - FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024

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5. FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

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6. PROCEEDINGS PENDING AND PRINCIPAL RELATIONS WITH THE AUTHORITIES

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7. MATERIAL EVENTS AFTER THE END OF THE REPORTING PERIOD

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8. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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Poste Italiane Group

Interim Report on Operations at 31 March 2024

1.READING GUIDE

This Interim Report at 31 March 2024 has been prepared, on a voluntary basis, in compliance with the provisions pursuant to Article 82 ter of the CONSOB Issuers' Regulations "Additional Periodic Financial Information" in order to ensure continuity and regularity of information to the financial community. The Interim Report on Operations at 31 March 2024 includes the Interim Report on Operations and, exceptionally, the Condensed Consolidated Interim Financial Statements at 31 March 2024 prepared in accordance with IAS 34 - Interim Financial Reporting and Article 154-ter (paragraph 5) of the Consolidated Financial Act.

The consistency and correctness of the disclosures contained in this document is guaranteed, as is comparability of the related information with the corresponding disclosures included in previously published financial reports. The Condensed consolidated interim financial statements are subject to limited audit on a voluntary basis by the independent auditors Deloitte & Touche S.p.A.

The information contained in this document aims to provide an update on events and circumstances occurring between the reporting date of 2023 and the date of approval of Poste Italiane Interim report on operations at 31 March 2024.

For more detailed information, reference should be made to the Annual Report for 2023, which will be submitted for approval by the shareholders' meeting to be held on 31 May 2024.

The values presented in this Interim Report on Operations at 31 March 2024 are compared with the corresponding values for the same period of the previous year, except for the Statement of financial position, which is compared with the corresponding statement as at 31 December 2023.

It is highlighted that in the document, amounts shown in millions of euros have been rounded, with the result that the sum of the rounded figures does not always tally with the rounded total.

The following infographics are used in this document:

to indicate, by means of a hyperlink, that it is possible to go deeper into the topic dealt with in the relevant paragraph;

to indicate, by means of a hyperlink, that it is possible to return to the beginning of the chapter and the general index;

to indicate that it is possible to elaborate on the subject in Chapter 10 "Glossary" in the Report on Operations section of the 2023 Annual Report.

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2. HIGHLIGHTS

During the first quarter of 2024, the path of shared value creation undertaken by the Poste Italiane Group generated excellent results at system level, through the significant investments in the six forms of capital which underpin the Company: financial, human, physical-structural, intellectual, social-relational and natural, and in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals framework.

FINANCIAL

PHYSICAL

INTELLECTUAL

STRUCTURAL

Revenue: €3 bn (+0.7% y/y)

EBIT: €0.7 bn (-8% y/y)

Net profit: €0.5 bn (-7.1% y/y)

Total Financial Assets 586 € bn (+7 € bn y/y)

Assets management: € 1.9 bn collected (approx. 4.5 X y/y)

Life investment products net inflows: positive 0.5 € bn

Lapse rate on Life business: 5.5% below the average market rate

Minority stake acquired in N&TS Group, a leading Italian company in software solutions for electronic payments.

Poste Logistics S.p.A. established to strengthen the integrated logistics business

12,755 post offices and ca. 118 thousand employees

Omnichannel Strategy: 24.9 mln (+10.4% y/y) daily interactions

Poste Italiane and Ferrovie dello Stato: two agreements signed for digitisation in passenger and freight transport

Joint Venture Locker Italia established, as part of the strategic partnership with DHL, for the international development of parcels

Poste Italiane wins the AIFIn "Financial Innovation - Italian Awards" 2024, taking 1st place as the most innovative financial institution of the year in the "Other Financial Institutions" category

PostePay's 'Pay and Withdraw' service, which allows small cash withdrawals without having to go to an ATM, was elected Product of the Year 2024 in the Smart Innovation Services category, while the new 'Poste Italiane' app was elected Product of the Year 2024 in the 'App - Simple Experience' category

Postecasa Ultraveloce's advertising campaign won gold in the sixth edition of the Branded Content & Entertainment Festival in the

category 'Video Digital/Social- Comedy sketch' and in the category 'Integrated digital campaigns'

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HUMAN

SOCIAL

NATURAL

RELATIONAL

~1.2 million training hours provided in the first three months of 2024

Result bonus 2023: additional welfare credits granted in the event of conversion of the result bonus into benefits, works and services with a social purpose

Launch of 'INSIEME Connecting Ideas', the third edition of the engagement programme designed to

enhance each individual's contribution to the successful implementation of the Group's ESG strategy

March 2024: presented the new Strategic Plan 2024-2028 'The Connecting Platform', which places the new business service model and logistics transformation at the centre of the strategy. 53 new ESG targets identified

Poste Italiane among the 100 iconic Italian brands at the exhibition 'Identitalia, The Iconic Italian Brands', dedicated to the most important historical brands of the companies that have made, and continue to make, the history of the country

Poste Italiane expands its presence on social media, opening a WhatsApp channel. TGPoste reports online, updates and information on the largest service network in Italy

The Poste Italiane Group is successfully continuing its new business energy offer for light and gas: about 440,000 customers have been reached

Establishment of Postego, a long- term rental company Group to support, among other things, the objectives of the green transition

  • 26,300 low-emission vehicles in the company fleet, of which ~5,900 electric
  • 2,100 buildings involved in the Smart Building project*, about 350 photovoltaic systems as at 31 March with an installed capacity of over 16,500 KWp
  • Automated and remote management of buildings to achieve energy efficiencies

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3. OUTLOOK

The Italian economy, according to preliminary estimates, was characterised in the first part of the year by moderate growth both with respect to the previous quarter and in trend terms, and will continue to grow moderately in the course of 2024 and then strengthen in the following years, on the assumption that the international context, albeit uncertain, will not entail any particular tensions in the energy commodities and financial markets.

Against this backdrop, the Poste Italiane Group ended the first quarter of the year reporting positive trends across all lines of business, with revenues up on the same quarter last year and limited inflationary impacts thanks to continued cost discipline.

On 20 March 2024, the "2024 - 2028 Strategic Plan - The Connecting Platform" was presented to the financial community, which lays its foundations on:

  1. a new business service model that maximises the value of the 'platform' Company in a diversified, integrated and sustainable way;
  1. the Group's transformation path to become a complete logistics operator, ensuring the financial sustainability of the Mail, Parcels and Distribution segment.

The logistical transformation towards an end-to-end logistical operator includes the evolution of the postal network, increasingly oriented towards parcel management, the development of international business and integrated logistics; as part of the broader strategic partnership with DHL signed in 2023, this strategy includes the establishment in April 2024 of Locker Italia SpA to develop a network of lockers in Italy for last mile parcel deliveries. The establishment of the NewCo Poste Logistics S.p.A. in March 2024 also contributes to the strengthening of the so-called integrated logistics.

The focus, also for the current year, will remain on offering products/services that keep pace with evolving market contexts, confirming the centrality of Postal Savings in the Poste Italiane Group's offering. In the insurance sector and specifically in the Life Investment and Pension Fund, the Group will be committed to evolving its commercial offer, taking into account both market dynamics and the optimisation of service quality, in order to protect customers' savings from market risks and inflation. In the protection sector, the Group confirms its ambition to reduce the country's under-insurance by making insurance protection more accessible through the evolution of the offer and an integrated advisory model, including through Net Insurance, acquired in 2023, as a factory of Poste Vita Group products distributed through physical and digital Third-party Networks.

In addition, benefiting from the growth of e-commerce and cashless payments, the PostePay business will evolve towards digital and innovative payment solutions that will allow, for example, the management from digital channels of the renewal and replacement phases of payment cards, so as to increase the level of customer loyalty, stock and continuity of use. In the pursuit of the development of the telephony offer, in the course of 2024, the main project initiatives will concern the extension of fixed telephony services to Small Business Operators customers, the development of new services, and a technological upgrade for the evolution of the network infrastructure with ultra broadband solutions to meet the growing hyper connectivity needs of customers. In the energy business, during the year, the Group will focus on the growth of the customer base, while concentrating on strategies related to the change in the reference scenario regarding the end of the protected market, as well as on the completion of the sales and after-sales service offering, and on building the loyalty of acquired customers.

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Among the most important omnichannel initiatives, the Poste Italiane SuperApp will be progressively enriched with all the functionalities of the BancoPosta and PostePay apps with the aim of replacing them in the near future. It will also be fully customised to the individual customer's profile and, thanks to cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence, will be the single point of access to the Group's 'phygital' platform, maximising cross- and up-selling potential.

The Group will continue to rely on and value its people as the key to success for the implementation of the new Strategic Plan; to this end, negotiations are underway for the renewal of the National Collective Labour Agreement, which expired at the end of 2023.

As part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, the Group will continue with the implementation of "Polis", a strategic project to support the country's social cohesion, which involves approximately 7,000 municipalities with a population of less than 15 thousand inhabitants, in which the Post Office will be transformed into a digital services hub for quick and easy access to Public Administration services. Some 250 co-working spaces nationwide are also planned, as well as the implementation of numerous actions to support the country's energy transition.

In the transition path undertaken towards carbon neutrality expected by 2030, investments and strategic initiatives will continue, such as the renewal of the delivery fleet with low CO2 emission vehicles, the installation of photovoltaic panels for energy supply and efficiency of properties; the replacement of current Postepay cards with cards made with eco-sustainable materials and digital cards will also continue, as will the development of specific offers aimed at enhancing customers' sustainable behaviour. As part of the green transition, we also note the establishment in May 2024 of the new company Postego S.p.A., which aims to progressively internalise the Poste Italiane car fleet.

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4. CORPORATE STRUCTURE OF THE GROUP, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

POSTE ITALIANE'S CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

POSTE ITALIANE'S ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

OWNERSHIP AND SHARE PERFORMANCE

CORPORATE STRUCTURE OF THE GROUP AND PRINCIPAL CORPORATE ACTIONS DURING THE PERIOD

4.1 POSTE ITALIANE'S CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

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4.2 POSTE ITALIANE ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

In line with the strategic guidelines set out in the Strategic Plan, the Group's activities are divided into four Strategic Business Units (also referred to as operating segments in the Poste Italiane financial statements): Mail, Parcels and Distribution; Financial Services; Insurance Services and Postepay Services (formerly Payments and Mobile), the latter renamed at the presentation of the new Strategic Plan "2024-2028 The Connecting Platform" to the financial community on 20 March.

STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNITS

MAIL, PARCELS AND

FINANCIAL

INSURANCE

POSTEPAY

DISTRIBUTION

SERVICES

SERVICES

SERVICES

In addition to its mail, parcel

The SBU refers to the

The SBU operates in

The SBU

and logistics management

placement and distribution

the Investment,

encompasses payment

activities, the SBU also

of financial and insurance

Pension and

management and e-

includes those relating to the

products and services by

Protection

money services, also

sales network, Post Offices

BancoPosta, such as

businesses through

carried out through the

and the Corporate functions

current accounts, postal

the exercise of life

LIS point-of-sale

of Poste Italiane S.p.A.,

savings products (on behalf

and non-life

network, as well as

which also support the other

of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti),

insurance activities.

mobile and fixed-line

sectors of the Group.

mutual investment funds,

telephony services and

loans provided by partner

electricity and gas

banks and policies.

marketing.

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