2025 marked a milestone for CHG-MERIDIAN, with lease originations surpassing €3 billion for the first time. Our results reflect a clear trend in the market: as the economic environment becomes increasingly challenging, demand for circular tech solutions continues to grow.

As IT investments pick up again – driven by AI, automation, and data-driven applications – companies are rethinking how they access and manage technology. In this context, circular tech is becoming a key solution to stay flexible, efficient, and competitive.

Technology has become a central lever for business success – but also a growing source of complexity. Rising investments are meeting volatile prices, supply chain risks, and geopolitical tensions, making long-term planning more challenging.

As a result, companies are changing the way they approach technology. The focus is shifting from ownership to flexible usage models that help them stay agile, manage risks and control costs.

This shift is clearly reflected in CHG-MERIDIAN’s performance in 2025. Demand for circular tech solutions continued to grow across markets and industries, driving further expansion of our business. By combining financing expertise with lifecycle management, we enable customers to plan investments more effectively, adapt to change, and unlock additional value from their technology.

For us, sustainability starts with circular technology as the core of our business and the principle of using instead of owning. In 2025, this approach enabled more than 1 million IT devices to enter a second lifecycle through refurbishment and remarketing – representing 96% of all our IT lease returns worldwide.

But sustainability does not end there. This circular mindset extends beyond the technology lifecycle, encompassing greater transparency in our supply chain, evolving governance structures, and initiatives that support diversity and inclusion.

In our Sustainability Insights, we share selected perspectives that show how we bring this approach to life – and how we help our customers use technology more responsibly and efficiently.

"The way that our customers think about technology investment has fundamentally changed. It is no longer just about procuring hardware, it is about managing investments flexibly, reducing risk, and creating space for innovation."