DIXY : wins in nomination at international LIME festival

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DIXY GROUP WINS IN NOMINATION AT INTERNATIONAL LIME FESTIVAL

Moscow, Russian Federation, May 28, 2018

DIXY Group and Rus Food Bank joint charity program Products for Help won in nomination Best Projects in the Field of Corporate Social Responsibility at the international festival of social advertising LIME in Moscow.

The project of DIXY Group was awarded a title of prizewinner in nomination Best Projects in the Field of Corporate Social Responsibility, newly announced this year. This special nomination was created for the large-scale retailers implementing socially important projects. Under the terms of competition, not less than 1,000 people should be involved in the program related projects, and its results must have an effect on the life of those regions where it takes place.

DIXY Group got an award for supporting socially unprotected people and for attraction of attention to the global problem of food shortage during implementation of the project Products for Help. As a result of activities on collection of food products for the cash-strapped, carried out within the project, around 3,000 families in the regions of DIXY Group presence received almost 4,000 charity sets made up from about 23,000 kg of food products and goods of first priority. Large families, lone-parent families, disabled children, lonely elderly people, and veterans became the recipients of product donations.

DIXY Group was the sole representative of food retailers to pick up an award in this nomination. Among other festival participants and prize winners, there were also large-scale retailers, such as PAO Sberbank, PAO Severstal, AO ALFA-BANK, Odnoklassniki and VKontakte social networks.

The festival was organized by the Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design of the National Research University Higher School of Economics with the support of ANO Laboratory for Social Advertising. The projects of LIME festival participants were judged by experts in the field of advertisement, journalism, and social projects.

DIXY Group (MICEX: DIXY) - is one of Russia's leading companies in food and fast moving consumer goods retail.

As of December 31, 2017 the Company operated 2,703 stores, including 2,534 DIXY convenience stores, 128 Victoria stores and 41 compact hypermarkets MegaMart and MiniMart, located in 753 Russian towns and settlements.

The Group's footprint covers four Federal Districts of Russia: Central, North-West and Urals, as well as Kaliningrad and the Kaliningrad Region.

In 2017, DIXY Group's total revenue amounted to RUB 282 billion.

PJSC DIXY Group's shares have been traded in the Moscow Exchange since 2007.

Contacts:

Yuliya Chernyshova

PR-projects Director of DIXY Group +7 495 223 3337 (ext. 43-305)

+7 905 504 28 83

Yu.Chernyshova@dixy.rupr@dixy.ruhttp://www.dixygroup.ru