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The Nomination Committee of Stillfront Group has been appointed

In 2019, Stillfront Group’s Annual General Meeting adopted an instruction regarding the appointment of the nomination committee. Pursuant to this instruction, the nomination committee shall be composed of representatives of the three largest shareholders listed in the shareholders’ register maintained by Euroclear Sweden as of 30 September 2019. The nomination committee may also decide that the chairman of the board of directors shall be a member of the nomination committee. A representative of a shareholder shall be appointed chairman of the nomination committee. Neither the chairman of the board of directors nor another director of the board shall serve as chairman of the nomination committee.

The nomination committee has now been appointed and comprises the following members:

Kai Wawrzinek – Laureus Capital 
Niklas Johansson – Handelsbanken Fonder, Chairman of the Nomination Committee
Ossian Ekdahl – Första AP-fonden
Jan Samuelson, Chairman Stillfront Group

The nomination committee shall prepare proposals for the 2020 Annual General Meeting regarding appointment of chairman of the meeting, chairman of the board of directors and other directors of the board, remuneration to the chairman of the board of directors and the other directors of the board, appointment of auditor, remuneration to the auditor and principles for the appointment of nomination committee. 

Shareholders who wish to present proposals to the Nomination Committee for the 2020 Annual General Meeting can submit them by post: Stillfront Group, att: Nomination Committee, Sveavägen 9, 5 tr, SE-111 57 Stockholm or via email: valberedning@stillfront.comIn order for the Nomination Committee to be able to consider submitted proposals in a constructive manner, these should be submitted no later than by 1 of February 2020.

28 October 2019

Stillfront Group AB (publ)

About Stillfront

Stillfront is a global group of gaming studios and a market leader in the free-to-play online strategy games genre. Our diverse and exciting games portfolio has two common themes; loyal users and long lifecycle games. Organic growth and carefully selected and executed acquisitions embody our growth strategy and our 650 co-workers thrive in an organization, that engenders the spirit of entrepreneurship. Our main markets are the US, Germany, MENA, France and UK. We are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and the company is listed on Nasdaq First North Premier. 

For further information, please visit: stillfront.com

Stillfront Group announces its interim results for July-September 2019 on 8 November 2019 at 7:00 a.m. CET. The report will be presented in a live webcast at 10:00 a.m. CET the same day.

Jörgen Larsson, President & CEO and Andreas Uddman, CFO, will present the results and answer questions. The conference will be held in English.

To participate via webcast, please visit:

https://tv.streamfabriken.com/stillfront-q3-2019

To participate via phone, please call:

SE: +46 8 566 427 06 

UK: +44 33 330 092 73 

US: +1 83 352 683 98

About Stillfront

Stillfront is a global group of gaming studios and a market leader in the free-to-play online strategy games genre. Our diverse and exciting games portfolio has two common themes; loyal users and long lifecycle games. Organic growth and carefully selected and executed acquisitions embody our growth strategy and our 650 co-workers thrive in an organization, that engenders the spirit of entrepreneurship. Our main markets are the US, Germany, MENA, France and UK. We are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and the company is listed on Nasdaq First North Premier. 

For further information, please visit: stillfront.com

Certified Adviser:
FNCA, Phone: +46 8 528 00 399 E-mail: info@fnca.se 

Stillfront, a market leader in ‘free to play’ online strategy games, today announces that Phillip Knust has been appointed as Group Chief Product Officer and member of the Group´s executive management team. Phillip is currently CPO of Goodgame Studios and has extensive experience from the gaming industry. 

Phillip Knust is a creative leader and product strategist who joined Goodgame Studios nine years ago as Product Manager and has since then led several production teams, releasing numerous product successes, the most popular being “Goodgame Empire”. Phillip Knust is the creator of the original game design of both “Goodgame Empire” and “Big Farm”. 

”I am very pleased to welcome Phillip to the executive management team. We have shared exciting opportunities since Goodgame Studios joined Stillfront Group and Phillip has already contributed to the Group with his vast experience from the industry and his deep knowledge. Establishing this role on the Group level is an important step to further accelerate synergies and develop Stillfront”, says Jörgen Larsson, CEO, Stillfront Group.

“Shortly after Goodgame joined the Stillfront Group, I had the opportunity to participate in group-wide projects. It was great to see how much additional value we could generate by strengthening collaborations and formulating new strategies, and I look forward to intensify my work on these and other areas in the new role”, says Phillip Knust. 

Phillip Knust was earlier this year appointed CPO of Goodgame Studios. He will now combine the two roles and assume his position for the Group from 1 September 2019.

About Stillfront

Stillfront is a global group of gaming studios and a market leader in the free-to-play online strategy games genre. Our diverse and exciting games portfolio has two common themes; loyal users and long lifecycle games. Organic growth and carefully selected and executed acquisitions embody our growth strategy and our 650 co-workers thrive in an organisation that engenders the spirit of entrepreneurship. Our main markets are the US, Germany, MENA, France and UK. We are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and the company is listed on Nasdaq First North Premier. 

For further information, please visit: stillfront.com

Certified Adviser:
FNCA, Phone: +46 8 528 00 399 E-mail: info@fnca.se 

Jörgen Larsson, President & CEO and Andreas Uddman, CFO, will present the results and answer questions. The conference will be held in English.

To participate via webcast, please visit:

https://tv.streamfabriken.com/stillfront-q2-2019

To participate via phone, please call:

Sweden: +46850558358
United Kingdom: +443333009030
United States: +18338230587

About Stillfront

Stillfront is a global group of gaming studios and a market leader in the free-to-play online strategy games genre. Our diverse and exciting games portfolio has two common themes; loyal users and long lifecycle games. Organic growth and carefully selected and executed acquisitions embody our growth strategy and our 600 co-workers thrive in an organisation that engenders the spirit of entrepreneurship. Our main markets are the US, Germany, MENA, France and UK. We are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and the company is listed on Nasdaq First North Premier.

For further information, please visit: stillfront.com

Certified Adviser:
FNCA, Phone: +46 8 528 00 399 E-mail: info@fnca.se

Stillfront Group announces that Alexis Bonte has been appointed Group COO and member of the Group´s executive management team. Alexis is Co-founder and CEO of eRepublik Labs, a studio within Stillfront Group.

eRepublik Labs was established in 2007 and is an award- winning games studio and a pioneer in online free-to-play games. eRepublik Labs has an international team of 40 professionals with offices in Dublin, Bucharest and Madrid. eRepublik Labs latest hits are “World at War” and “War and Peace: Civil War”. Both are in the mobile strategy game category. Since inception, more than 20 million players worldwide have or are playing an eRepublik Labs game. Alexis is also a Venture Partner at Atomico, advising on new investments in France, Spain, Portugal and Eastern Europe. 

”I am very pleased to welcome Alexis to our executive management team. Alexis has extensive experience within the industry both as a founder and developer of online strategy games as well as an investor. In 2018 we completed three acquisitions and Stillfront is today a global group of 11 studios with 500 professionals. Looking ahead, we strive to expand intra-group cooperation, increase the level of synergies as well as accelerate our growth agenda. Alexis deep know-how and industry expertise will be very valuable in further developing Stillfront”, says Jörgen Larsson, CEO, Stillfront Group.

“Since I decided to have eRepublik Labs join the Stillfront Group back in May of 2017, I have been able to experience first-hand how powerful the concept of an alliance of semi-autonomous studios that Jörgen and the team have put together is. I look forward to now help the Group scale that concept further and to support the growth acceleration of our existing studios”, says Alexis Bonte. 

Before co-founding eRepublik, Alexis worked for lastminute.com for six years, first as Head of Business development in UK, Marketing and Sales director in France and then as MD for Italy. Alexis holds a BA Honours Degree in International Business and Languages from the European Business School, London. 

Alexis will progressively assume his position starting in April of 2019 and transition to being fulltime Group COO in January 2020. During this transition period, Alexis will continue his position as CEO of eRepublik Labs until a successor is appointed.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

Sofia Wretman, Director IR & Communications
Phone: +46 708 11 64 30
E-mail: sofia@stillfront.com

ABOUT STILLFRONT

Stillfront is a group of independent creators, publishers and distributors of digital games – with a vision to become the leading group of indie game creators and publishers. Stillfront operates through eleven near-autonomous subsidiaries: Bytro Labs in Germany, Coldwood Interactive in Sweden, Power Challenge in the UK and Sweden, Dorado Online Games in Malta, Simutronics in the United States, Babil Games in UAE and Jordan, eRepublik in Ireland and Romania, OFM Studios in Germany, Goodgame Studios in Germany, Imperia Online, Bulgaria and Playa Games, Germany. Stillfront’s games are distributed globally. The main markets are Germany, the United States, France, UK and MENA. For further information, please visit www.stillfront.com.

SELECTED GAMES

Stillfront’s portfolio includes games across multiple platforms. Unravel and Unravel Two are widely acclaimed console games developed by Coldwood in collaboration with Electronic Arts. Supremacy 1914 and Call of War are high-immersion war strategy games developed by Bytro Labs. ManagerZone is a sports management strategy game launched in 2001. DragonRealms and GemStone IV are MUD-style games with a very loyal player base. Siege: Titan Wars(TM) is a popular mobile game developed by Simutronics. Nida Harb III and Admiral are mobile strategy games with very strong player bases, which are published by Babil Games. World at War: WW2 and War and Peace: Civil War are successful mobile strategy games developed and published by eRepublik Labs. Online Fussball Manager is a leading sports management game. EMPIRE and BIG FARM are major brands operated by Goodgame Studios. Imperia Online, is an MMO strategy game published on both browser and mobile platforms by Imperia Online.