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NZME acquires remaining shares in OneRoof Limited

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MARKET ANNOUNCEMENT

17 August 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NZME acquires remaining shares in OneRoof Limited


AUCKLAND, 17 August 2023: NZME Limited (NZX: NZM, ASX: NZM) (“NZME”) announces

that its wholly owned subsidiary NZME Publishing Limited today agreed to acquire the remaining

20 percent of the shares in OneRoof Limited (“OneRoof”), which will bring its total shareholding

to 100 percent.


NZME has exercised its option to acquire the shares from joint venture partner Hougarden.com

Limited. The option, granted in 2018, has been exercised at a price of $2.1 million, payable in a

series of instalments through until July 2026. Completion of the acquisition is expected to occur

on 18 August 2023.


Michael Boggs, NZME Chief Executive, says OneRoof is one of NZME’s key strategic pillars, and

the acquisition of remaining shares demonstrates NZME’s ongoing commitment to further growing

the property platform.


“When NZME launched OneRoof.co.nz in 2018, it was immediately a huge disruptor in the real

estate industry. Five years later it is a well known, respected, comprehensive property platform

that is highly valued by agents and the wider real estate industry, as well as vendors, home

buyers, investors and the general public.


“We are really pleased to have acquired the remaining shareholding of OneRoof, allowing us to

have full control over growing the platform and becoming indisepensable to real estate agents

across the country. NZME views the property industry as an area of future growth and untapped

potential, and as we start to see positive signs of NZ’s real estate industry recovering, we’re

looking forward to continuing to grow our OneRoof offering well into the future,” he says.


“Hougarden has been a tremendous partner of OneRoof and NZME. We look forward to

continuing our positive relationship with them as a service supplier to OneRoof in the years

ahead,” says Boggs.


ENDS


Authorised by: Michael Boggs, Chief Executive Officer


For further information please contact:

MEDIA INVESTORS


Kelly Gunn

GM Communications

+64 27 213 5625

Kelly.gunn@nzme.co.nz


David Mackrell

Chief Financial Officer

+64 21 311 911

David.mackrell@nzme.co.nz

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