The recognition highlights Grundfos Pumps India’s market leadership in sustainable pumps, industrial water management, and energy-efficient pumping solutions driven by digitalization and water stewardship.

SAN ANTONIO, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce that Grundfos Pumps India Pvt. Ltd. has received the 2026 Indian Company of the Year Recognition in the Sustainable Pumps for Industrial Water category for its outstanding achievements in sustainability-led innovation, strategy execution, and measurable customer impact. This recognition underscores the company’s consistent leadership in advancing energy-efficient pumping systems, strengthening its position in India’s industrial water market, and enabling customers to manage water and energy more responsibly in an increasingly resource-constrained environment.

Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process across two core dimensions: strategy effectiveness and strategy execution. Grundfos Pumps India excelled in both dimensions, demonstrating a clear ability to align long-term strategic priorities with evolving industrial demand while executing them with discipline, scalability, and consistency. Emphasizing the perspective shared in the assessment, Fredrick Royan, Associate Partner, Sustainability at Frost & Sullivan, said, “Grundfos Pumps India is positioned to shape the next phase of industrial water pumps by combining technological ambition with verifiable sustainability outcomes, transforming water management into a strategic driver of national progress and competitive differentiation.”

Guided by a long-term growth strategy centered on sustainability, digitalization, and application-centric engagement, Grundfos Pumps India has demonstrated strategic agility in adapting global engineering expertise to local industrial realities. The company’s sustained investment in smart pumping technologies, variable-speed solutions, and data-enabled system optimization has allowed it to scale effectively across high-growth industrial sectors in India, including manufacturing, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, mobility, semiconductors, and energy-intensive process industries.

Innovation remains integral to Grundfos Pumps India’s approach to the industrial water ecosystem. Its comprehensive portfolio of sustainable pumps, pump systems, digital controls, and smart filtration solutions addresses the full lifecycle of industrial water management, from intake and treatment to reuse and discharge. By enabling demand-based pumping, advanced monitoring, and adaptive control, these solutions help customers reduce energy consumption, lower operational costs, and improve system reliability.

“India’s industrial transformation will be defined by how intelligently we manage water. At Grundfos, we see technology not just as an enabler, but as a catalyst for a more resilient and resource‑positive future. By combining advanced pumping intelligence with data‑driven water management, we are empowering industries to move beyond incremental efficiency and embrace system‑level sustainability that safeguards both operational continuity and long‑term competitiveness,” said Shankar Rajaram, Head of Sales, IND Division at Grundfos Pumps India.

Grundfos Pumps India’s emphasis on customer experience reinforces its leadership in sustainable pumps for industrial water. The company supports customers through digital services, optimization programs, repair and lifecycle services, and transparent engagement models that allow users to validate performance before and after deployment. Its application-driven methodology, combined with localized sales and service support across India, enables long-term partnerships built on trust, reliability, and measurable outcomes rather than stand-alone product transactions.

Frost & Sullivan commends Grundfos Pumps India for setting a high benchmark in competitive strategy, execution excellence, and market responsiveness. The company’s ability to integrate smart pumping, digital platforms, renewable energy alignment, and water stewardship is shaping the future of industrial water management in India and delivering tangible economic and environmental value at scale.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents the Company of the Year Recognition to an organization that demonstrates outstanding strategy development and implementation, resulting in measurable improvements in market performance, customer value, and competitive positioning. The recognition highlights organizations that are redefining industry standards through innovation, excellence in growth, and long-term impact.

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Grundfos Pumps India Pvt. Ltd. (Grundfos India) is a 100% subsidiary of Grundfos – Denmark. A global leader in advanced pump solutions and a trendsetter in water technology, the company manufactures more than 16 million pump units annually. The company’s main products include circulator pumps for heating and air-conditioning, as well as other centrifugal pumps for the industry, water supply, sewage, and dosing. The company contributes to global sustainability by pioneering technologies that improve the quality of life for people and care for the planet.

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BEIJING, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As artificial intelligence deeply permeates all industries, competition among AI applications has shifted far beyond model parameter comparisons — it now centers on data quality and scenario adaptation capabilities. A clear industry consensus has emerged: private domain data forms the foundational backbone of AI. Without dedicated data support, AI only generates generic, undifferentiated content.

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Correction: The press release on April 27, 2026, regarding buybacks of shares in Ericsson during the period April 20 through April 24, 2026, inadvertently stated the total “Weighted average Share price per day (SEK)” in the table as “SEK 106.74”, and this is now amended in the below table to show the correct figure which is “SEK 105.69”.

STOCKHOLM, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — During the period April 20 – April 24, 2026, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (“Ericsson“) (LEI code 549300W9JLPW15XIFM52) repurchased own Class B shares (ISIN: SE0000108656) as follows:

The share repurchases are a part of the share buyback program of up to SEK 15,000,000,000 which Ericsson announced on April 16, 2026 and which runs between April 23, 2026 and March 31, 2027, at the latest. The Board of Directors intends to propose to the 2027 Annual General Meeting that the repurchased shares, other than those used to fulfil Ericsson’s obligations under its share-related incentive programs, are cancelled.

The share buyback program is executed in accordance with the Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on market abuse (MAR) and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 of 8 March 2016 supplementing MAR (the Safe Harbour Regulation).

All acquisitions have been carried out on Nasdaq Stockholm by Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE on behalf of Ericsson. A full breakdown of the transactions is attached to this announcement.

Following the repurchases above, Ericsson’s holding of treasury stock amounts to 40,402,276 shares of Class B shares. There are in total 3,371,351,735 shares in Ericsson, 261,755,983 shares of Class A and 3,109,595,752 shares of Class B.

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