Navigator : Dreams’ Winner Announced!

Press Release - May 2018

Navigator Dreams' Winner Announced!

Maria Gonçalves Silva stepped on stage as the big winner of Navigator Dreams' 4th Edition. Along with receiving an amazing iMac Pro® she will have her design layout displayed around the world on the reams of Navigator Students' 2018.

e young Portuguese designer Maria Gonçalves Silva used the "Paper Dreams" concept to create the winning layout of Navigator Dreams - Global Talent Design Contest, an initiative of Navigator, the world's leading premium office paper brand. e second place was awarded to Tayrine Cruz Carvalho from Brazil and the Spanish designer Irene Martinez won the third place.

ese three designers drew the jury's attention out of almost 600 design proposals.

With the claim "A Stage for your Talent", the 4th edition of Navigator Dreams brought together designers spanning 49 different countries, with Portugal, Russia and Ukraine being the three most represented countries in the contest, followed by Mexico, Italy and Finland. All with the same purpose of letting their creativity shine and boost their professional career with a project powered by Navigator.

Maria Gonçalves Silva will have her work showcased as the 2018 edition of the Navigator Students ream, a multifunctional office paper made for academic purposes, and will be awarded with an amazing iMac Pro®. Being also the producer of the best Making-Of video, Maria will also get a Polaroid® One Step 2.

Tayrine Cruz Carvalho, the author of the second winning design, will receive a Cintiq 27 QHD®, and third place winner Irene Martinez will be awarded with an iPad Pro®, along with an Apple Pencil and Keyboard.

" e outstanding quality and diversity of the projects did not make it easy for the jury panel to select the three best layouts. As the competition is growing further each year, with both quantity and quality increasing exponentially, we are proud to know that young designers perceive Navigator as a reliable partner for their professional career start." explains Ricardo Ferreira, Navigator's Global Brand Manager.

ABOUT THE NAVIGATOR COMPANY e Navigator Company is the new face of the former Portucel Soporcel group, after its rebranding in 2016.

e Navigator Company is Portugal's third leading exporter, and the exporter generating the highest level of national value added. e Group accounts for approximately 1% of

Portugal's GDP, around 3% of the country's total exports of goods, close to 8% of all containerized cargo and 7% of all containerized and conventional cargo exported through Portuguese ports.

In 2017, the Company's annual turnover stood at 1.637 million euros, sustained essentially by strong performance in sales of pulp, power and tissue.

Having consolidated its position as the leading European manufacturer, and the fourth largest in the world, of uncoated woodfree (UWF) printing and writing paper, e Navigator Company is also Europe's top producer of BEKP (Bleached Eucalyptus Kraft Pulp), the fifth largest in the world. In tissue business, the sales volume was up by 9% in relation to 2016.

e Navigator Company has successfully pursued a strategy of innovation and development of its own brands, which today account for 62% of sales of manufactured products. Special mention should be made of the Navigator brand, the world's best-selling product in the premium office paper segment.

e Navigator Company sells its products to 130 countries over five continents, with a special focus on Europe and the US, giving it the broadest export base of any Portuguese company.

As a vertically integrated forestry Company with its own forestry research institute RAIZ, it manages vast tracts of forest in Portugal certified under the FSC® and PEFC™ systems (FSC license C010852 and PEFC license 13-23-001), and boasts annual production capacity for 1.6 million tons of paper, 1.4 million tons of pulp (of which 1.1 million is integrated into paper), 63 thousand tons of tissue paper and power generation of 2.5 TWh, adding up to annual turnover of approximately 1.6 billion euros.

e Navigator Company operates one of Europe's largest nurseries for forestry plants, with annual production capacity of approximately 12 million certified plants of various species, destined for use in renewing Portugal's woodlands.

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