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1 Overview of the Group’s strategy, markets and businesses Businesses, end-markets and customer channels

Energy Management

Secure Power

Industrial Automation

Secure Power business: Number 1 Worldwide in Critical Power and Cooling

The Industrial Automation business scope includes Process, Hybrid and Discrete Automation, providing comprehensive products and solutions for the automation and control of machines, manufacturing plants and industrial sites. The offer is based on smart connected devices such as discrete sensors, motion systems, and world leading positions in push buttons and signaling as well as motor control applications based on leading ranges of frequency converters (Altivar) and motor starters/contactors (Tesys). The business includes a full range of comprehensive edge control systems and software such as distributed control systems (Foxboro Evo) and leading safety systems (Triconex), machine and process control (PLC Modicon) and human-machine interface (“HMI”) operator panels. The Industrial Automation business also provides an innovative range of software for design, operation and maintainance of the industrial processes. This includes modeling/simulation (SimSci), supervisory control systems (Wonderware) and asset management (Avantis) software, addressing the full life-cycle of the industrial assets for IIoT-ready solutions. Industrial Automation’s software and apps offer is addressing autonomous machines as well as complete processes to improve productivity and energy efficiency, leveraging the Group’s connected offer for power distribution to deliver a complete automation and power solution. Industrial Automation business: Number 2 Worldwide in discrete and machine automation Number 4 Worldwide in process automation

The Secure Power (“SP”) Business specializes in critical power products and solutions for data centers and other applications where power continuity and quality is essential. The portfolio includes single-phase and 3 phase Uninterruptable Power Supplies (“UPS”), plug-in surge protection, IT enclosures, power distribution units, security and cooling systems, services and IT Facility management software.

(1) Medium Voltage was previously named Infrastructure and Industrial Automation was named Industry .

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