• This new reduction, which, in addition to the previous price drop implemented in February, bringing the total number of products reduced in 2024 up to 1,000, is the result of the company’s commitment to translating cost price reductions into RRP reductions and strengthening its sales strategies.
• “The Bosses” (customers) will see savings in their shopping basket worth up to €150 per year.
• The company will continue to reduce prices for the rest of the year while maintaining quality and ensuring the sustainability of the entire food supply chain.

• Located at the company’s logistics centre in Abrera (Barcelona), the new installation consists of 16,500 solar panels, delivering a total output of 8 MW and with the capacity to generate 9.5 GWh per year, thereby reducing annual CO2 emissions by 1,270 tonnes.
• Mercadona's rooftop installations now produce a total of 100 MW (for on-site consumption). This total power supply will allow the company to generate energy equivalent to the annual consumption of 40,000 homes and reduce CO2 emissions by 16,000 tonnes per year.

• The plan enters into force in April and will be effective for 4 years.
• The agreement reiterates Mercadona’s ongoing commitment to promoting equality throughout the company in all processes and for all the people who make up Mercadona.
• The company remains focused on achieving good results in terms of Equality.

The investment programme, which began in 2016, is the result of the company’s strategic decision, supported by its investors, to guarantee long-term benefits for the 5 components (customers, employees, suppliers, society and capital).

• The company’s brutal transformation has involved the implementation of the New Efficient Store Model, international expansion in Portugal, the roll-out of the Online Project, the optimisation of logistics centres and innovation in new IT tools and organisational models.
• Having reduced the price of 1,000 products between April 2023 and February 2024, Mercadona will continue reducing prices for the rest of the year.
• Mercadona has created 5,000 new jobs and now employs a total of 104,000 people in Spain and Portugal, with whom it has shared 600 million euros in bonuses, 50% more than the previous financial year.
• In 2023, Mercadona’s efficiency, profitability and management improvements have led to a 40% increase in net profits, reaching 1,009 million euros, after paying 43% more in Profit Tax.
• The company has allocated 80% of these profits to its continued efforts to maximise investments, planning to invest 5,000 million euros between now and 2028.

• The new online warehouse will have a staff of 150 people and has required investment of 13.2 million euros.
• It is the second Hive that Mercadona has opened in Madrid, joining those the company has in Valencia, Barcelona, Getafe (Madrid), Alicante and Seville.
• The company is expanding its online business with the opening of a new Hive, a platform dedicated exclusively to online sales, in Boadilla del Monte (Madrid).

• Mercadona continues with its expansion plan and will open 10 new stores, ending the year with 49 supermarkets in Portugal.
• These openings will be in the districts of Porto (3), Braga (1), Lisbon (4), Setúbal (1) and, for the first time, in the district of Coimbra (1).
• These new stores further demonstrate the company's firm commitment in Portugal, where it plans to invest 280 million euros in 2023 and create around 650 new jobs.

• The company launches its new online shopping service in El Puerto de Santa María, Rota, Chipiona and Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
• Online customers will be able to shop more intuitively via the new website and app, which allows you to find products by browsing categories or using a search function

Reduction of margins, cost control, efficient selection and productivity, key for not passing the full impact of cost prices on to the sales price of products.

• The impact of the increase in cost prices has reduced the company’s margin by 0.6 points, leaving profitability at one of its lowest in the company's history: €0.025 profit per euro of sales, compared to €0.027 in 2021.
• This effort to reduce the company's margin and profitability has led to savings of 375 million euros for the over 5.7 million households that shop at Mercadona, which the company has not passed on to the shopping basket.
• Mercadona has achieved net profit of 718 million euros, 5% more than in 2021, and has maintained its policy of sharing profit with employees, increasing the amount shared by 8% to reach 405 million euros.
• Mercadona's tax contribution to public treasuries was historic in 2022: over 2,263 million euros, 12% more than in 2021.
• With regards to its contribution to creating stable, quality employment, it has created 3,000 jobs with permanent contracts (1,000 of them in Portugal), and has guaranteed the purchasing power of the 99,000 people who make up its staff with salary increases in line with the CPIs of Spain and Portugal.
• In 2022, Juan Roig and Hortensia Herrero  allocated over 80 million euros of their dividends to reactivating the economy of the Valencian Community and Spain, a figure that they will increase in 2023 “because knowledge and money bring happiness...if you share them”.

• In 2023, the projection is to increase its capacity for renewable energy generation at 240 stores and at new logistics centres and Hives.
• A Mercadona store with solar panels saves approximately 20% of its annual energy consumption compared with a store without photovoltaic energy installed, which entails a reduction of approximately 30 tonnes of CO₂ per supermarket.
• After investing over 14 million euros in 2022 in the installation of new solar panels, reducing emissions of over 3,000 tonnes of CO_2.

• In collaboration with Iberdrola and Repsol, the company seeks to offer a high-quality charging service at a very competitive price.
• Charging could be up to 6 times faster, increasing from 3.7 to 22 kW.
• The forecast is to have over 5,000 semi-fast charging stations installed by the end of 2024, creating one of the largest charging networks for electric vehicles in Spain.

• The company collaborates with over 550 social entities and over 60 food banks and other entities in Spain and Portugal.

• Online customers will be able to shop more intuitively via the new website and app, which lets you find products through categories or by using a search function.
• Mercadona’s first platform exclusively dedicated to online sales in Andalusia, referred to internally as a Hive, is located in Seville.