2015 Annual General Meeting Invitation, Proxy Statement and Annual Report (iii) To Our Shareholders It’s clear that those parts of Logitech’s business that we focus on most – the Company’s future – show great We are pleased to report that Fiscal Year 2015 was a promise. Here’s more detail: strong year for Logitech, further advancing the Company’s transformation that started two years ago. Growth Category Logitech’s Growth category comprised Tablet and Other This past year demonstrated the effectiveness of our Accessories, Gaming, and Mobile Speakers at the start strategy and its resilience even in the face of challenges. of Fiscal Year 2015. By Q4 we added a fourth business: The PC market declined, the iPad market declined and we Video Collaboration. underwent a lengthy internal investigation. By November 2014 the internal investigation was behind us and our Our growth businesses are key engines of our growth financial statements had been corrected. Against this transformation. And these engines showed horsepower: backdrop, we delivered solid Fiscal Year 2015 results: our Growth category contributed nearly $600 million in sales for FY 2015 and grew 25 percent year over year. • Sales of $2.11 billion, down 1 percent compared to FY Both our Mobile Speakers and Video Collaboration 2014, and up 2 percent in constant currency. businesses more than doubled over the course of the fiscal year. • GAAP operating income was $15 million with earnings per share at $0.06. In constant currency, the Growth category increased by 28 percent year over year in FY 2015, and by 45 percent • Cash flow from operations was $179 million. We in Q4, demonstrating the momentum we carried into the ended the year with more than $0.5 billion in cash, new fiscal year. up $68 million over last year. That is after distributing $44 million in dividends to our shareholders. Profit Maximization In FY 2015, sales in our PC Peripherals business L e While these numbers are solid, once you analyze them in decreased by 5 percent year over year – 2 percent in t t more detail they are even more impressive. constant currency. e r t o Excellent results We achieved this in a PC market environment that’s S Logitech’s primary focus is on our Retail Strategic declining between 5 and 7 percent. That means we grew h a business – the company’s Profit Maximization and Growth share in most of our PC Peripheral categories. We have r e categories. It does not include OEM and Lifesize, which market leadership in all of them. We also delivered record h together broke even. Retail Strategic is nearly 90 percent gross margins and, through the strength of our product o l of our business – the future of our company. If you look at innovations, even drove 5 percent growth in constant d e our performance in this business – in constant currency currency in our Keyboards and Combos category. r s to take out the unusually significant impact of exchange rates – you will see we grew FY 2015 sales by 6 percent We expect the Profit Maximization category to continue compared to last year. In the last half of the year, they to decline. We will manage that decline, maximizing profit grew 7 percent. This means the business that represents as category leaders along the way. And we will continue the future of Logitech is already growing within our high- to optimize our performance in this business over the single-digit, long-term growth target. It also shows that coming years, regardless of declines in the PC market. we ended FY 2015 with momentum. Our Products Are Big Experiences In FY 2015, we took a non-cash, non-tax-deductible We have also been working to reinvent Logitech as a goodwill impairment charge related to the acquisition Design-centric company – one in which Design is part of of Lifesize of $123 million. We began to reorganize this our culture and used as a strategic differentiator. business and accelerate the transition to Lifesize’s new cloud-based offering, which is gaining significant market To achieve this, we have changed our innovation traction. If you put aside this one-time charge, Logitech machine. We have opened up our office spaces to make delivered our best earnings in seven years in FY 2015 and them more collaborative. We have encouraged a small we tripled profitability in just two years. company culture where hierarchy and bureaucracy are being replaced by team-work, hunger and speed. We are seeing the fruits of our Design-focused work. Thanks to our design and innovation teams, our products have A few years ago, we promised to evolved into big experiences. deliver fewer, bigger products. And we are delivering. (iii) A few years ago, we promised to deliver fewer, bigger Thanks to this price and cost management initiative, we products. And we are delivering. Take the UE BOOM mobile expect to be able to invest more deeply into the many speaker for example. Not only was it our biggest product growth opportunities we see ahead of us. Over the last in Fiscal Year 2015, it has become our best performing two years, we have already reduced our R&D spend in product in the 34-year history of the company. The UE traditional PC Peripherals by over two thirds, reinvesting MEGABOOM – UE BOOM’s big brother – immediately the savings into our Growth category and future projects. became a top five selling product in Q4. And we launched We will also invest in new capabilities, both in R&D another family member, the wild child of UE BOOM, UE and in our regional go-to-market organizations. Last, ROLL, just a few weeks ago. but not least, we are returning more value to you, our shareholders, through dividends and share buybacks. Another example can be found in our Video Collaboration business. The Logitech ConferenceCam CC3000e – a video camera, mic and speaker in a single unit – has Thanks to this price and cost seen a very positive reception. It’s another top-selling management initiative, we expect to product, just like the G502 PROTEUS CORE Tunable Gaming Mouse that quickly became our biggest gaming be able to invest more deeply into the mouse after launch last year. many growth opportunities we see ahead of us. Five of our top 13 products in the company are now from our Growth category. And innovative products from our traditional businesses, like the Logitech Bluetooth We thank our committed and hard-working employees. Multi-Device Keyboard K480, are catching consumers’ They have helped transform Logitech into a company that attention too. Last quarter, six of our products were can grow again. And we thank you, our most committed honored with Red Dot 2015 Product Design Awards. shareholders, for your loyalty over this last year. We L We were also multiple honorees at CES. Over the last look forward to Fiscal Year 2016 as we accelerate our e t eighteen months, we’ve received over 50 prestigious transformation for growth. t e design awards – more product design awards than in any r t period in our history. o S h This shows the power of the long-term strategies we a have put in place to transform Logitech for the future. r e h o Looking Ahead ld Guerrino De Luca We closed a solid Fiscal Year 2015 with healthy e Chairman of the Board r momentum. Looking ahead, however, the strong U.S. s dollar is presenting a challenge for Logitech. The dollar’s strength has negatively affected our margins over the last few months. We do not believe this is simply a short-term change and we went on the offensive. Bracken P. Darrell President and Chief Executive Officer We deployed price increases in impacted markets across most of our products and will continue to assess prices as products launch throughout Fiscal Year 2016. We developed new cost reduction initiatives targeting our products, overhead and infrastructure. These build on FY 2015’s disciplined spend management – our operating expenses were down for the second consecutive year and fell to their lowest level in five years. We are also undertaking a targeted realignment of resources, notably exiting our OEM business and reorganizing Lifesize as a cloud-based provider. (iv) 2 0 1 5 A n n u a l 2015 Annual General Meeting G Invitation, Proxy Statement and Annual Report e n e r a l M e e t i n This page is intentionally left blank. g I n v i t a t i o n , P r o x y S t a t e m e n t This page is intentionally left blank. July 24, 2015 To our shareholders: You are cordially invited to attend Logitech’s 2015 Annual General Meeting. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at the SwissTech Convention Center, EPFL, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Enclosed is the Invitation and Proxy Statement for the meeting, which includes an agenda and discussion of the items to be voted on at the meeting, instructions on how you can exercise your voting rights, information concerning Logitech’s compensation of its Board members and executive officers, and other relevant information. Whether or not you plan to attend the Annual General Meeting, your vote is important. 2 0 Thank you for your continued support of Logitech. 1 5 A n n u a l G e n Guerrino De Luca e r a Chairman of the Board l M e e t i n g I n v i t a t i o n , P r o x y S t a t e m e n t This page is intentionally left blank. LOGITECH INTERNATIONAL S.A. Invitation to the Annual General Meeting Wednesday, September 9, 2015 2:00 p.m. (registration starts at 1:30 p.m.) SwissTech Convention Center, EPFL – Lausanne, Switzerland ***** AGENDA A. Reports Report on Operations for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015 2 B. Proposals 0 1 5 1. Approval of the Annual Report, the consolidated financial statements and the statutory financial A statements of Logitech International S.A. for fiscal year 2015 n n 2. Advisory vote to approve executive compensation u a l 3. Appropriation of retained earnings and declaration of dividend G e 4. Release of the Board of Directors and Executive Officers from liability for activities during fiscal year n e 2015 r a l 5. Elections to the Board of Directors M e 5.A. Re-election of Mr. Kee-Lock Chua e t i n 5.B. Re-election of Mr. Bracken Darrell g I 5.C. Re-election of Ms. Sally Davis n v i 5.D. Re-election of Mr. Guerrino De Luca t a t i 5.E. Re-election of Mr. Didier Hirsch o n , 5.F. Re-election of Dr. Neil Hunt P r 5.G. Re-election of Mr. Dimitri Panayotopoulos o x y 5.H. Election of Dr. Edouard Bugnion S t 5.I. Election of Ms. Sue Gove a t e 5.J. Election of Dr. Lung Yeh m e 6. Election of the Chairman of the Board n t 7. Elections to the Compensation Committee 7.A. Re-election of Ms. Sally Davis 7.B. Re-election of Dr. Neil Hunt 7.C. Election of Mr. Dimitri Panayotopoulos 8. Approval of Compensation for the Board of Directors for the 2015 to 2016 Board Year 9. Approval of Compensation for the Group Management Team for Fiscal Year 2017 10. Re-election of KPMG AG as Logitech’s auditors and ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP as Logitech’s independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2016 11. Re-election of Ms. Béatrice Ehlers as Independent Representative Apples, Switzerland, July 24, 2015 The Board of Directors This page is intentionally left blank.