The Board of Directors of Samsonite International S.A. (the Company) announced that Mr. Tom Korbas has been re-designated from a Non-Executive Director to an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company with effect from March 17, 2021. Mr. Korbas was appointed as an Executive Director of the Company in June 2014 and was re-designated as a Non-Executive Director of the Company in April 2016. He was re-designated as a Non-Executive Director and not an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company in April 2016 as he was the Company's President, North America from 2014 until April 2016 and subsequently served as a consultant to the North America business of the Company and its subsidiaries (the Group) from April 2016 to December 2018.