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GENERAL: SNK: Snakk Media named "Best for Workers" again.

SNK: NZX MARKET UPDATE
15 April 2015

Snakk Media named one of the world's 'Best for Workers' B Corps for second
year
Global list recognises companies creating positive employee impact

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, 15 April 2015 - Today, Snakk Media Ltd (NZAX: SNK) is
being recognised for creating some of the highest quality jobs in the world
for the second year running, earning a top spot on the fourth annual global
'Best for Workers' list.

Snakk Media is the only public B Corp in the world, and the only company in
Australasia, to make the The 'Best for the Workers' list. This index honours
the top 10 per cent of more than 1,200 Certified B Corporations from over 120
industries on the B Impact Assessment, a rigorous and comprehensive
assessment of a company's impact on its workers, community, and the
environment.

The New Zealand-headquartered mobile advertising technology company was
benchmarked across a range of criteria, including its health and wellness
programs, parent-friendly flex-time and leave policies, salary compensation
and benefits, professional development and company ownership opportunities.
"If you want the best people today, you need to foster an environment that
allows them to be successful, happy and healthy at work and in life," says
Snakk Group CEO Mark Ryan. "This can easily fall by the wayside as a company
grows rapidly. We've undergone plenty of change since we were first honored
last year, and it is pleasing to see we are considered among the world's top
'best for workers' companies for a second year."

The 98 'Best for Workers' companies come from 31 different industries such as
manufacturing, insurance, software development, education and healthcare.
About 35% of honorees are based outside the US, with companies operating in
emerging markets such as Brazil, Ghana, and Venezuela.

Snakk shares a place on the index with the likes of Cooperative Home Care
Associates, a worker-owned cooperative based in the Bronx, Venezuelan
biotechnology firm ETAVENCA, America's oldest flour brand King Arthur Flour
and Kansas-based MAX Insurance. (Full list at
http://bestfortheworld.bcorporation.net/2015-b-corp-best-for-the-world-worker
s-honorees).

"Today's honorees inspire all companies to compete not only to be best in the
world, but best for the world. We hope many will take the first step by
using the B Impact Assessment to measure and manage their impact with as much
rigor as their profit," said Jay Coen Gilbert, Co-Founder of B Lab, the
nonprofit organisation that certifies B Corporations.

Each honored company is a Certified B Corporation. There are now 58 certified
B Corporations in Australia and New Zealand, and more than 500 companies are
currently working through the assessment process.

These companies use the power of business to solve social and environmental
problems and have met rigorous standards of social and environmental
performance, accountability, and transparency. Today there are over 1,200
Certified B Corporations, across 121 industries and 38 countries. Any company
can measure and manage social and environmental performance at
bimpactassessment.net.

ENDS

Media
Julie Landry, 021 895 098, [email protected]
Investors
Malcolm Lindeque, Company Secretary, 021 464 392, [email protected]
www.snk.co.nz, www.twitter.com/snakkmedia

About Snakk Media Limited
NZAX-listed Snakk Media helps brands find and reach consumers using apps,
games and social media on their smartphones, tablets and other smart screens.
The company generates revenue every time it successfully targets and delivers
an ad across its networks of mobile websites, apps and games. The ads are
targeted to ensure the right audiences see them at the right time and place.

Snakk is one of the first public companies in the world that has met the
rigorous social and environmental performance standards required to become a
certified B Corporation.

About B Corps and B Labs
B Corp is to business what Fair Trade certification is to coffee or USDA
Organic certification is to milk. B Corps are certified by the nonprofit B
Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance,
accountability, and transparency. Today, there is a growing community of more
than 1,000 Certified B Corps from 33 countries and over 60 industries working
together toward 1 unifying goal: to redefine success in business.
B Lab is a nonprofit organization that serves a global movement of people
using business as a force for good.  Its vision is that one day all companies
compete not only to be the best in the world, but the best for the world and
society will enjoy prosperity for all for the long term.

B Lab drives this systemic change by: 1) building a community of Certified B
Corporations to make it easier for all of us to tell the difference between
"good companies" and good marketing; 2) passing benefit corporation
legislation to give business leaders the freedom to create value for society
as well as shareholders; 3) helping businesses measure, compare and improve
their social and environmental performance with the free B Impact Assessment;
4) driving capital to impact investments through use of its B Analytics and
GIIRS Ratings platform.

For more information, visit www.bcorporation.net.
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