FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE (EPA:ALFOC) Focus Home Interactive press release : Appointment of a new Chairman of the Management Board

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Press release
Paris, 10 April 2018

                            FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE
             Appointment of a new Chairman of the Management Board

FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE (FR0012419307 ALFOC), video game publisher, is
announcing a change in its management team.

Cédric Lagarrigue, current Chairman of the Management Board, has announced his
resignation from the Management Board.

The Supervisory Board has accepted his resignation and would like to thank
Cédric for the quality of his work for the company.

Cédric Lagarrigue said, "After spending more than twenty years developing
Focus, I have decided to resign as Chairman and member of the Management Board.
I would like to thank all the people, studios and partners who have supported
me over these twenty extraordinary years. Focus has gone from success to
success and has grown to become a well-known player on the international video
game market. It will confirm its strong growth in 2018, and its upcoming
projects are the most exciting it has ever seen. I am fully confident in
Focus's current management team and the company's talented staff, who will
continue to deliver performance and excellence."

The Supervisory Board has appointed Jürgen Goeldner, currently a member of the
Supervisory Board, to replace Cédric Lagarrigue as Chairman of the Management
Board.

Jürgen Goeldner has considerable experience in video games. He founded
Rushware GmbH in Germany, then Funsoft Group, which he sold to THQ in 1997,
then founded Mobile Scope in 2001, before selling it in 2005. Jürgen was COO
at Eidos where he coordinated the merger with

Square Enix. In 2009, he was Chairman of Chillingo, the publisher of Angry
Birds, which was sold to Electronic Arts in 2010. Jürgen is currently a board
member or adviser to several companies in the video game sector.

Jürgen Goeldner said, "Focus has several licences that offer great potential
and I am pleased to be joining this talented team and to be able to share my
expertise in drawing on these licences to take the Company to a new stage in
its development."

About Focus Home Interactive
FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE is France's third-largest publisher of video games. Its
mission is to support development studios in overseeing the production,
marketing, sales and financing of their projects. The publisher of successful
original titles such as Blood Bowl, Tour de France, Wargame and Farming
Simulator, the Group generated revenue of EUR75.6 million in 2016, an increase
of 9.3%. FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE generates more than 85% of its sales
internationally.

                                Upcoming events

                  Fifth-quarter revenue for fiscal year 2017
                                 26 April 2018
                   Annual results for fiscal year 2017-2018
                                  5 July 2018

All financial information pertaining to FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE can be found on
                              www.focus-home.com

Financial communications contacts

FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE
Jürgen Goeldner
+ 49 160 52 59 646

Deborah Bellangé
Tel: + 33 (0) 1 55 26 85 00
email: dirgen@focus-home.com

Investor Relations - Actifin
Benjamin Lehari
Tel.: + 33 (0) 1 56 88 11 25
email: blehari@actifin.fr

Press Relations - Actifin
Jennifer Jullia
Tel.: + 33 (0) 1 56 88 11 19
email: jjullia@actifin.fr

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