Celestica Completes Equity Offering

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(All amounts in U.S. dollars)

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TORONTO — Celestica Inc. (NYSE: CLS) (TSX: CLS) (“Celestica” or the “Company”), a global leader in data center infrastructure and advanced technology solutions, today announced that it has completed its previously announced equity offering of 9,677,419 common shares at a price to the public of $310 per share (the “Offering”). An aggregate of 11,129,031 common shares, which includes the full exercise of the underwriters’ option of 1,451,612 common shares, were sold by Celestica for aggregate gross proceeds, before underwriting discounts and Offering expenses, of approximately $3.45 billion.

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Net proceeds from the Offering are expected to be used for working capital and to support investments in capital expenditures, in addition to other general corporate purposes.

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BofA Securities and Citigroup are acting as joint lead bookrunners (in alphabetical order) and TD Securities, CIBC Capital Markets, J.P. Morgan and RBC Capital Markets are acting as joint bookrunners for the Offering. BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole CIB, MUFG, Scotiabank, Canaccord Genuity, and Stifel are acting as co-managers for the Offering.

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About Celestica

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Celestica is a technology leader dedicated to driving customer success and market advancements. With deep expertise in design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and platform solutions, Celestica enables critical data center infrastructure for AI, cloud and hybrid cloud, and advances technologies in high-growth markets. With a talented team and a strategic global network, Celestica helps its customers achieve competitive advantages. For more information on Celestica, visit www.celestica.com. Our securities filings can be accessed at www.sedarplus.ca and www.sec.gov.

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The information contained on or accessible through www.celestica.com is not incorporated by reference into, and does not form part of, this release.

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Registration Statement and Prospectus

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Celestica has filed a final base shelf prospectus and a final prospectus supplement containing important information relating to the securities described in this press release with the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces and territories of Canada. Delivery of the base shelf prospectus, the final prospectus supplement, and any amendments to the documents have been provided in accordance with securities legislation relating to procedures for providing access to a shelf prospectus supplement, a base shelf prospectus and any amendment. The final base shelf prospectus and the final prospectus supplement and any amendment to the documents are accessible through SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.com. An automatic shelf registration statement (including a base shelf prospectus) on Form S-3 (File No. 333-285515) has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) for the Offering to which this press release relates. The final prospectus supplement has been filed in the United States with the SEC. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, electronic or paper copies of any of the documents may be obtained, without charge, if you request them in Canada from Merrill Lynch Canada Inc., 181 Bay Street-Suite 400, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2V8; Citigroup Global Markets Canada Inc., c/o: Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 (+1-800-831-9146); or TD Securities Inc., Attention: Symcor, NPM, at 1625 Tech Avenue, Mississauga, ON L4W 5P5, by telephone at (289) 360-2009, or by email at [email protected], or in the United States by contacting BofA Securities, NC1-022-02-25, 201 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001 (Attention: Prospectus Department); Citigroup, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 (+1-800-831-9146); or TD Securities (USA) LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 or by email at [email protected], in each case by providing the contact with an email address or address, as applicable.

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No securities regulatory authority has either approved or disapproved the contents of this press release. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration and qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction.

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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements

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This press release contains forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, those related to: strengthening demand in our businesses, demand environment and customer forecasts, and use of net proceeds of the Offering. Such forward-looking statements may, without limitation, be preceded by, followed by, or include words such as “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “intends,” “plans,” “continues,” “projects,” “target,” “outlook,” “goal,” “guidance,” “potential,” “possible,” “contemplate,” “seek,” or similar expressions, or may employ such future or conditional verbs as “may,” “might,” “will,” “could,” “should,” or “would,” or may otherwise be indicated as forward-looking statements by grammatical construction, phrasing or context. For those statements, we claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, where applicable, and for forward-looking information under applicable Canadian securities laws.

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Forward-looking statements are provided to assist readers in understanding management’s current expectations and plans relating to the future. Forward-looking statements reflect our current estimates, beliefs and assumptions, which are based on management’s perception of historic trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors it believes are appropriate in the circumstances, including certain assumptions about: revenue growth in 2026 and 2027 (including continued strengthening of customer demand, close alignment with key customers on demand planning, sustained improvements in demand visibility, and continued strengthening of adjusted operating margins); accelerating growth from our customer base, including our CCS customer base; demand levels across our businesses, including continued growth in demand from data center customers in 2026 and 2027; programs and production ramps occurring and progressing as anticipated in line with expected timelines, specifications, qualification requirements and production schedules, customer decisions, design changes, silicon and component availability, qualification outcomes, deployment timelines and priorities, constraints affecting data center development, construction, equipping or operation, and other technical, commercial, regulatory or supply-chain factors, and our expected role in such programs, including our 800G and 1.6T networking, and AI/machine learning compute programs with data center customers; technology upgrade cycles; our ability to retain programs and customers; continuing operating leverage and improving mix; the impact of anticipated market conditions on our businesses; the reliability of third party market forecasts and customer indications of future demands and roadmaps, including with respect to data center infrastructure; continued advancement and commercialization of AI technologies and cloud computing; supporting sustained high levels of capital expenditure investments by leading hyperscaler, AI, and data center customers; our ability to develop new capabilities; scaling of our operations to meet the anticipated growth in customer demand; the successful recruitment and retention of skilled talent; capital investments proceeding as anticipated, including timely completion of construction and operationalization of assets, securing required materials, utilities, and equipment for our expansion plans; our ability to secure adequate component and materials supply; alignment of our capacity with our business demands; the economy; our customers; our suppliers; tax and interest rates; no material changes to tariffs, trade restrictions, customs administration, or related refund or recovery processes, including developments relating to duties imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 and any replacement, continuing or retaliatory tariff measures, compared to what are in effect as of August 7, 2026; that our customers will retain liability for and we will continue to be able to recover substantially all costs from customers relating to product/component tariffs and countermeasures; no material changes in business activities resulting from current macroeconomic trends and uncertainties, including evolving global tariffs, trade negotiations, and geopolitical conflicts; our ability to achieve our strategic goals; the availability of cash from operations to fund planned capital investments; the availability of capital resources for, and the permissibility under our credit facility of, repurchases of outstanding common shares under our current normal course issuer bid; as well as other market, financial and operational assumptions. Readers are cautioned that such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. Readers should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking information.