YVERDON LES BAINS, SWITZERLAND, November 25th, 2016: After two and a half years’ service as Recharge A/S representatives on the Leclanche SA Board of Directors, Scott Macaw and Robert Robertsson are resigning their positions. In December 2014, Recharge funded Leclanché’s successful turnaround plan, providing some CHF 22m under convertible loans. These loans were ultimately converted into shares or transferred to other key company investors. Recharge’s current shareholding in Leclanche is around 7.5%.

During the turnaround period, Leclanche has established a robust production line in its Willstaett cells factory, and started to attract significant clients, as well as further strategic investors. A growth plan for the business was endorsed by shareholders in 2015, and is now well underway, with substantial sales of complete battery systems around the world.

Recharge’s contribution to the financing of the first phase of Leclanché’s growth plan was instrumental to the Company’s success, as was its contribution to the insourcing of a full BMS system, and to the funding of the strategic investment in the Graciosa project in the Portuguese Azores Islands.

Scott and Robert believe that, with the turnaround plan now complete, and Leclanché now implementing the next phase of its growth plan, the Company has the necessary resources of investors, board members and executive team to succeed.

Scott and Robert anticipate a bright future for Leclanche and look forward to further opportunities to support the company, other than acting as Board members.

The Board of Directors would like to take this opportunity to thank Scott Macaw and Robert Robertsson for their service, contribution and cooperation over the past two and a half years.

Leclanche undertakes to renew and strengthen its Board, and is reviewing potential candidates to replace Scott and Robert, to give the best possible support to its successful growth plan.

About Leclanché

Headquartered in Switzerland, Leclanché SA is a leading provider of high-quality energy storage solutions designed to accelerate our progress towards a clean energy future. Leclanché’s history and heritage is rooted in over 100 years of battery and energy storage innovation and the Company is a trusted provider of energy storage solutions globally. This coupled with the Company’s culture of German engineering and Swiss precision and quality, continues to make Leclanché the partner of choice for both disruptors, established companies and governments who are pioneering positive changes in how energy is produced, distributed and consumed around the world. The energy transition is being driven primarily by changes in the management of our electricity networks and the electrification of transport, and these two end markets form the backbone of our strategy and business model. Leclanché is at the heart of the convergence of the electrification of transport and the changes in the distribution network. Leclanché is the only listed pure play energy storage company in the world, organised along three business units: stationary storage solutions, e-Transport solutions and specialty batteries systems. Leclanché is listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX: LECN).

SIX Swiss Exchange: ticker symbol LECN | ISIN CH 011 030 311 9

Disclaimer

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Contacts Leclanché

Media Switzerland /Europe:

Thierry Meyer

T: +41 (0) 79 785 35 81

E-mail: tme@dynamicsgroup.ch

Media North America:

Henry Feintuch / Ashley Blas

T: +1-914-548-6924 / +1-509-494-4053

E-mail: leclanche@feintuchpr.com  

Media Germany:

Christoph Miller

T: +49 (0) 711 947 670

E-mail: leclanche@sympra.de

Investor Contacts:

Anil Srivastava / Hubert Angleys

T: +41 (0) 24 424 65 00

E-mail: invest.leclanche@leclanche.com