Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2019 Winners Edition

FIRM PROFILE The Sunrise Communications Group AG (Sunrise) is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zurich and is the leading challenger on the Swiss telecommunications market. Sunrise is the largest non state-controlled telecommunications company in Switzerland, offering mobile, Internet, TV, and landline services to private and business customers. Sunrise offers the best mobile network in Switzerland (connect mobile network test 3/2019). Sunrise is the 5G pioneer and was the first provider to introduce 5G in the beginning of April. As at the end of August, Sunrise covered already more than 309 cities/towns, offering the largest 5G network in Switzerland and Europe. In addition to this, Sunrise offers the best geographic 4G/LTE coverage across more than 96% of Switzerland to 99.98% of the population. 4G+ coverage is approximately 84.5% of the Swiss population, with speeds of up to 900 Mbit/s. Sunrise benefits from an 11,800 km, nationwide state-of-the-art fiber network backbone. On the fixed side, Sunrise reaches approximately www.finance-monthly.com 41 Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2019 Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2019 SWITZERLAND 85% of households in Switzerland with its fully invested network. The company offers the most advanced fiber technologies – such as vectoring, FTTS, FTTB, and FTTH – thanks to its long-term agreement with Swisscom, SFN, and local utilities. As at December 31, 2018, Sunrise generated a total revenue of CHF 1,876 million and an adjusted EBITDA of CHF 601 million and had more than 3.5 million customer relationships. Sunrise is the best universal provider for SMEs and large businesses (BILANZTelekomRating 2019), and the company also counts many large national and international companies such as Nestlé, Zurich Insurance Group, Swiss Post, Zurich Airport, Swiss International Air Lines, McDonald’s, NISSAN, and others among its customers. Sunrise has around 1,615 employees (full-time equivalents) as well as more than 143 apprentices – the highest share of apprentices (8.9%) in a Swiss-wide company ranking (SonntagsZeitung August 25, 2019).