Statement re Launch of New Investor Relations App

Statement re Launch of New Investor Relations App

Smurfit Kappa Group PLC

Smurfit Kappa, one of the world’s leading producers of paper-based packaging, has announced the launch of their first Investor Relations (‘IR’) web app. The development will utilise the latest technology and app design to provide a central resource of financial and operational information, which will make it easier for investors to learn about the Group and keep in touch with relevant corporate activity.

The self-contained web app has been optimised for all mobile devices using the latest HTML5 technology, and will allow investors to access the latest Smurfit Kappa information wherever they may be in the world. Through the IR app, users will be able to view real-time share price information, Smurfit Kappa’s latest quarterly results and a complete archive of financial reports. Users will also be able to utilise a number of investor analyst tools, including the innovative ‘Interactive Analyst’ function, which will allow the user to compare a wide selection of financial and operating figures through an intuitive and easy to use charting function.

In addition to investor-related materials, the app allows users quick and simple access to Smurfit Kappa’s most recent press releases, customer testimonials, videos and presentations.

Ian Curley, Smurfit Kappa Group CFO commented: “This app will provide financial investors and analysts with an easy to use, customisable tool, which consolidates all of our relevant communications in one comprehensive platform. Employing some of the latest technologies and techniques the app will enable investors to study and follow the Group faster and more comprehensively than before.”

The web app, developed by the Addison Group, is accessible at investorapp.smurfitkappa.com/ ahead of Smurfit Kappa’s third quarter results to be published at 07.00 GMT on Wednesday 5th November.

ENDS

For further information please contact:

Seamus Murphy
Smurfit Kappa
T: [phone]
E:[e-mail]

Notes to editors

The design of the free web app mirrors that of Smurfit Kappa’s new, dynamic microsite www.openthefuture.info, where a series of films demonstrate how customers across the world have worked in partnership with Smurfit Kappa to create innovative solutions which have driven commercial success.

About Smurfit Kappa

Smurfit Kappa is one of the leading producers of paper-based packaging in the world, with around 41,000 employees in approximately 350 production sites across 32 countries and with a sales revenue of €7.9 billion in 2013.

Innovation, service and pro-activity towards customers, using sustainable resources, is our primary focus. This focus is enhanced through us being an integrated producer, with our packaging plants sourcing the major part of their raw materials from our own paper mills. We are the European leader in paper-based packaging, operating in 21 countries selling products including corrugated, containerboard, bag-in-box, solidboard and solidboard packaging. We have a growing base in Eastern Europe in many of these product areas. We also have a key position in other product/market segments including graphicboard, MG paper and sack paper. We are the only large-scale pan-regional player in the Americas, operating in 11 countries in total in North, Central and South America.

www.smurfitkappa.com