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On behalf of People Operations, we inform you about the changes that will be implemented in the telephone contact as of January 1, 2025 for questions about the savings account and withdrawals.

The Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development (VBDO) investigates the sustainable investment policy of the fifty largest pension funds in the Netherlands. This is published annually in the VBDO Benchmark Pension Funds. Heineken Pensioenfonds has risen to 34th place in the ranking.

The state pension age will not change in 2025. It will remain 67 years, just like in 2024. The state pension age for 2030 was announced at the beginning of November. This has been set at 67 years and 3 months, which is the same as 2028 and 2029.

We look back on three days of great conversations and informative webinars in which we took a total of 341 live viewers through the transition to the new pension scheme. We have noticed that pensions are not an issue for everyone, but when we talk to colleagues, questions do arise.

The new pension scheme is a solidarity-based contribution scheme. An important and mandatory element of this scheme is the solidarity reserve. The solidarity reserve is a separate reserve that protects the pension benefits. The solidarity reserve has two objectives:

On November 12, 13 and 14 the annual Three Days of Pensions will take place. During these three days, we will organise various (online) activities where we will tell you more about the pension scheme we have at HEINEKEN and the upcoming changes to the pension scheme and what this means for your pension at HEINEKEN.

Your opinion counts! On Monday October 14, you received an invitation from the Heineken Pension Fund, from the e-mail address pensioenfonds@heineken.nl to participate in the survey about your knowledge about the Future Pensions Act, our provision of information about the new pension scheme and the means of communication we use. Your answers will help us improve our communication and information provision.

If you work or have worked at HEINEKEN, you will receive the Uniform Pension Statement (UPO) from us every year. The UPO provides insight into your pension.

When investing, we take environmental and social aspects and good corporate governance into account. We have laid down how we do this in our policy on socially responsible investment (SRI policy). In our Sustainability Report 2023 you can read how this took place in 2023. In the first part, we tell you what our policy looked like in 2023. In part 2 we report on the implementation and results of our SRI policy in the past year.

The first half of 2024 is over and we would like to look back on the year 2023 with you. We have laid down the most important facts and figures in the Annual Overview 2023. Worth checking out!