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* The company meets EPR commitment of collecting and diverting equivalent volumes of plastic

* Reducing packaging, evolving packaging, and helping improve diversion systems

As you all know Mother Earth needs all the help we can give. I am glad that more and more companies are launching sustainable projects to preserve our environment, and Mondelēz International is one of them.

Global snacking leader Mondelēz International strives to advance its support for a more circular economy for packaging in the Philippines. Recently, the Company has made strides to advance more sustainable snacking by reducing its packaging use, evolving its packaging, and helping improve diversion systems in the Country. Most notably, the Company has achieved its commitment to collect and divert the equivalent volumes of its post-consumer plastic packaging used in the Philippines in 2023. This is in support of the local Extended Producer

Responsibility (EPR) Law, obliges companies to be responsible for the plastic they use in their operations.

As part of its mission to lead the future of snacking, Mondelēz International empowers people to snack right, by offering the right snack, for the right moment, and made the right way. Making snacks the right way for both the people and the planet means focusing on making snacks with more sustainable ingredients as well as supporting a more circular economy for packaging. Mondelēz International is the maker of Oreo, Toblerone, Cadbury Dairy Milk, Tang, Eden Cheese, Cheez Whiz, and Tiger Biscuits.

Reducing Packaging

Mondelēz International aims to utilize packaging that is light, safe and, when appropriate, can

be reused or recycled. Globally, the Company aims to reduce 5% of its virgin plastic packaging by 2025. In 2023, the Company has reduced the amount of plastic packaging it uses for its products in Southeast Asia, particularly for its brands Oreo Mini and Chips Ahoy!. This was achieved through redesigning the packaging to be more efficient and removing the use of plastic trays for some of its products.

Evolving Packaging

Recently the Company released its 2023 global ESG report entitled the Snacking Made Right. In it, the Company shares its 2025 goal to have approximately 98% or more of its packaging designed to be recyclable. As of 2023, 96% of its packaging worldwide has been designed to be recyclable, while it continues to work on its goal of ensuring 5% of its plastic packaging worldwide will be made of recycled content. Designed to be recyclable means the materials used in its packaging have available waste streams for easier recycling and diversion.

Improving Systems

Systems and infrastructure are critical for packaging materials to be recycled in practice. As

such, along with local market engagement, the Company continues to play an active role in the UN Global Treaty for Plastic Pollution via the Business Coalition.

In the Philippines, the Company has partnered with Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX) with a goal for the recovery and diversion of all the equivalent in-market yearly plastic packaging output for 2023 and now for 2024 as well. PCX partners with organizations that collect and divert post-consumer waste in a credible, traceable, transparent, and socially responsible manner. As part of the then-voluntary commitment to recycle plastic, the Company started collecting and diverting plastic packaging as early as 2019. In 2023 during the first year of the EPR Law, the Company was able to collect and divert the equivalent volumes of all its post-consumer plastic packaging used during the year.

The plastic collected for the Company has been diverted to avoid being marine waste or landfill and has been recycled into plastic flakes and upcycled into boards for building materials, among others. The partnership between Mondelēz International and PCX also supports the latter’s Aling Tindera program, which provides livelihood for sari-sari store owners who use their enterprises as plastic collection sites.

The Company has also invested in Circulate Capital in Southeast Asia and India, a fund which

aims to enhance focus on the physical collection of flexible films – lightweight, multi-layer plastics used by the snacking industry – that have traditionally been more difficult to collect, sort, recycle, and reuse. In 2023, Circulate Capital helped Mondelēz International prevent additional plastic pollution of 4,201 metric tons across Southeast Asia and India. This amount of plastic collected has also resulted in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Mondelēz International's efforts underscore its dedication to environmental responsibility and sustainability leadership. By prioritizing greener practices and embracing innovation, the Company continues to set the standard for Sustainable Snacking in the country.

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About Mondelēz International

Mondelēz International, Inc. (Nasdaq: MDLZ) empowers people to snack right in over 150

countries around the world with 2023 net revenues of approximately $36 billion, MDLZ is leading the future of snacking with iconic global and local brands such as OREO, belVita, and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka, and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. Mondelēz International is a proud member of the Standard and Poor’s 500, Nasdaq 100, and Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Visit www.mondelezinternational.com or follow the company on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MDLZ.

About Mondelez Philippines

Mondelez Philippines, Inc. has been providing consumers with delicious snack products for the

past 61 years - since 1963. Its product portfolio includes Tang powdered beverages, Eden cheese, mayonnaise, sandwich spread, Cheez Whiz spread, Oreo cookies, Tiger energy biscuits, as well as Toblerone and Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolates. The company employs about 450 people in the Philippines, with a manufacturing facility in Parañaque City. Visit https://ph.mondelezinternational.com/home

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Metro Manila, May 24: Teachmint, a leading classroom technology company, today signed an MoU with the Private Education Assistance Committee (PEAC) in the Philippines. This partnership aims to empower educators and learners at scale in the digital era of education by implementing cutting-edge technology under the Rethinking Education, Championing, and Accelerating School Transformation program (RECAST). RECAST is an innovative program spearheaded by PEAC, dedicated to supporting private schools to transform the teaching and learning experience with technology.

“Harnessing technology in education holds immense promise for transforming learning experiences and improving educational outcomes, said Doris F. Ferrer, PEAC Executive Director. “RECAST supports the private schools to be more effective in addressing the challenges in educational delivery by providing them digital assistance through a partnership with Teachmint.”

Through this partnership, Teachmint will enable educators and learners in select private schools across Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and the National Capital Region with its state-of-the-art Connected Classroom solution. With a targeted outreach of about 10 schools in phase one, as part of the collaboration for the academic year 2024-2025, Teachmint will:

Set up 8 Teachmint AI-Enabled Connected Classrooms in the participating schools that will be identified by PEAC.
Equip the classrooms with Teachmint's proprietary software to facilitate seamless learning across pre-class, in-class, and post-class.
Provide comprehensive training to educators to upskill them to maximize the potential of technology and drive superior learning outcomes.

"We are excited to partner with PEAC to bring connected classroom solutions to the forefront of education in the Philippines," said Ekansh Bansal, VP - International Business at Teachmint. "Through the RECAST program, we aim to empower educators with the tools, learnings, and resources they need to create enriching learning experiences and transform classroom engagement, seamlessly."

Teachmint also recently opened their Center for Excellence in the Makati district while they serve educational institutes and teachers across the Philippines.

About Teachmint:

Teachmint is a classroom technology company dedicated to moving the world forward, one

classroom at a time. We enable technology to work for educators and manage every need of

institutions across K–12, higher education, and academic coaching centers. Our products have served over 20 million users in more than 50 countries in 17 languages. Visit

http://www.teachmint.com to learn more.

About PEAC:

The Private Education Assistance Committee, PEAC, is a five-member committee constituted as trustee of the Fund for Assistance to Private Education (FAPE), a permanent and irrevocable trust fund for programs of assistance to private education.

The PEAC has co-implemented the national education subsidy programs, JHS Education Service Contracting (ESC) and the SHS Voucher Program (SHS VP), which are concrete demonstrations of the public-private complementarity in the Philippine education system. An estimated 9.7 million Filipino students in approximately 8,000 private schools have benefited from PEAC’s work through more than 20 years of service.

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Shreya Daga - +91 9884693290

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