EDISON AWARDS OVERVIEW

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Company Overview The Award Categories The Edison Awards™ is an annual competition designed to honor excellence in new Categories may be broken down product and service development, marketing, human-centered design and innovation. into sub-categories which reflect Winners represent “game changing” products, services, excellence and leadership in the emerging innovations of each year. innovation around four criteria: Concept, Value, Delivery and Impact.

Started in 1987, The Awards are named after inventor Thomas A. Edison and symbolize + Aerospace Innovation the persistence and excellence in innovation as personified by him. + Applied Technology

+ Athletics, Sports The Value of an Edison Award & Recreation Collective Disruption Award winners gain broad national recognition and significant market visibility + through the publicity their award generates. The annual event draws hundreds of + Consumer Electronics & Information Technology fellow innovators into a nexus of powerful networking opportunities. + Consumer Goods Winners broadcast their award-winning status to the business media and promote their + Energy & Sustainability innovation to their audiences by using the Edison Awards seal. As companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500 feature the Edison Awards seal, the Edison Awards brand + Health & Wellness makes millions of impressions worldwide. + Industrial Design

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The Power of 3rd-Party Validation + Living, Working & Learning Environments An unbiased review by a network of industry experts, business executives and academics provides a 3rd-party validation that delivers an affirmation of superior quality — + Media, Visual Communications a confirmation that can reach customers in a way that marketing and advertising cannot. & Entertainment Receiving an Edison Award is one of the most prestigious accolades honoring excellence + Medical/Dental in new product and service development. + Materials Science & Engineering

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Hundreds of companies have won an Edison Award including Fortune 500 companies, Past Winners small start-ups, and everything in between. Here are just a few:

The Coca-Cola Co. Cisco Lockheed Martin AfterShokz® Proteus Digital Health Dow Chemical Co. 3M Healthsense, Inc. Dyson Inc. GE Healthcare Thermo Fisher Scientific Liquid Robotics Ralph Lauren Intuit CoorsTek Narrative Science AT&T Inc Nike, Inc. miraclefeet Sonomax SpaceX Procter & Gamble Qualcomm® Levi Strauss & Co. Braun Lumen Touch Rockwell Collins Beltone Avon Products, Inc Oru Kayak LIFX Nielsen Hanson Robotics Nest Consumers

Small Business Public Relations Audience Owners Professionals International of Edison Award Attendees are C-level Professionals C-level executives in the fields of: Scientists Marketing, Technology, Science, Business Membership Engineering, and Retail Health 52% Associations Professionals Marketing Entrepreneurs of Edison Award Attendees have Professionals expressed interest in funding Engineers opportunities to help grow Designers 30% their business

Number of people employed Size of company (annual sales) by 2018 Nominee companies $1.5MM or less 23% Start-ups Combined Annual Revenue 10 or fewer 17% $1.5-10MM 20% Small of 2012-18 Attendees 11-50 22% $11-50MM 18% Medium $ More than 50 61% $50MM+ 39% Fortune 500 Over 1.4 Trillion

Recent Edison Achievement Award Winners

Marillyn Hewson, Jeff Immelt, Astro Teller, John Chambers, Bob Lutz, General Motors; Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo; Lockheed Martin Corp. General Electric X Cisco Systems Clayton Christensen, , Tesla/SpaceX Harvard Business School

Award winners represent a multitude of industries including: Collaborative & Knowledge Management Food & Beverage Preparation & Safety Sustainable Systems, Conservation Tools and Platforms for Business and Utilization Resources Home Improvement and Home Learning Support & Behavior Smart Systems Commercial and Industrial Design Change Solutions Innovations Lifestyle, Sports and Recreation Security & Safety Products Equipment and Solutions Medical Analytics, Diagnostics, Detection and Treatment Solutions Research & Business Optimization Tools Computer & Entertainment Design and Electronics Assistive Devices & Surgical Aids Electronic Funding Solutions Commercial Resource Management Transportation Systems Beauty, Personal Care, Wellness and Models and Tools Wearables Products The Global REACH of Social Media Outreach tHOMAS EDISON In less than one second, a search of “Thomas Edison” yields 10,083+ 101,203+ over 55 million results. Followers Youtube Views twitter.com/edisonawards .com/user/EdisonAwards 24,964+ 551+ Bi-Monthly E-Newsletter LinkedIn Group Members SUBSCRIBERS .com/company/edison-awards

WEBSITE TRAFFIC (monthly average) 13, 200+ 423+ edisonawards.com Facebook FOLLOWERS INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS 20,580 Visits facebook.com/edisonawards instagram.com/edisonawards 15,574 unique Visits 40,740 Page Views

Information current as of July 2018.

“Being a recipient of a prestigious Edison Award has opened many new doors for our company. Relation- International Outreach ships and partnerships forged during Distribution of non-u.s.A. the event itself and as a result of the Nominees by continent since 2012 award have significantly helped to l Asia 38.5% further our brand recognition among l Europe 38.5% stakeholders, media, the online com- l Canada/Mexico 11.5% munity and target customers.” l S. America 3.8% l Australia 3.8% Art Jacobsen, General Manager, CarMD Corp l Africa 3.8%

Edison Awards Supporters Include: Edison Awards strategically integrates goals into a 360° marketing plan. Utilizing our powerful reach, the Edison 360° Marketing Awards amplifies its “marketing DNA” through our own By using comprehensive and shared network, then exponentially magnifies that exposure as every nominee, finalist, partner and sponsor promotes marketing avenues, Edison Awards and their Edison Awards connection through their own the entire Edison community benefits. marketing campaigns.

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