Autohellas S.A. in accordance with Regulation of the Committee of European Community no 2273/2003, article 4, par.4, announces that following the decision of the Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Company (dated April 24, 2012) and the Board of Directors’ resolution (dated May 17, 2012) purchased own shares through the Athens Exchange Member EUROXX Securities Investment Firm S.A., as follows:

On August 07, 2012 the Company purchased 1000 shares, with average cost price € 1.13 per share and total purchase value €1,130.00

Athens, 8/8/2012

Purchase of own shares

In effect of the article 4, paragraph 4 of the 2273/2003 Regulation of the European Commission, the company GR. SARANTIS S.A. announces that according to article 16, Law 2190/1920, and based on the resolution of the Shareholder's Ordinary General Meeting which took place on the 30/06/2010, as renewed by decision of the Ordinary General Meeting of 21/06/2012, during the trading session of 7/8/2012, acquired 14,811 own shares through "INVESTMENT BANK OF GREECE S.A." at a price of 1.9195 euro per share worth of 28,429.23 euro.

In accordance with Law 3556/2007 as well as decisions 1/434/03.07.2007 and 33/03.07.2007 of Greece’s Capital Markets Commission, J&P-AVAX SA announces the purchase on 07.08.2012 of 6,000 shares of J&P-AVAX SA for a consideration of euro 5,061.75 by D&S JOANNOU (INVESTMENTS) LTD, a legal entity related to Board Chairman Mr Leonidas Joannou and Executive Director Mr Christos Joannou. 

Marousi, August 08, 2012

Corporate Disclosure Service

SPRIDER STORES S.A. announces based on Law 3556/2007 (articles 3 and 21) in combination with article 11 of Decision 1/434/03.07.2007 of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission that on August 7, 2012, DELTA PRIME HOLDINGS LIMITED, a related legal entity to Mr. Dorotheos Athanasios Hatzioannou, Executive Member of the Board of Directors (bound person according to article 13 of Law 3340/2005), sold 6.110 common shares, with a total net value of € 343,55.

It is hereby announced that on August 7^th,  2012, Mr. Petros T. Tzannetakis, Deputy Managing Director – Chief Financial Officer and Executive BoD Member (person obliged to acknowledge his   Stock Exchange transactions on Company shares, according to article 13 of the Law 3340/2005), bought 500 MOTOR OIL (HELLAS) S.A. shares of total value EURO 2,450.

Maroussi, August 8^th, 2012

Financial Results for the First Semester of 2012

DIVERSIFICATION AND EXPORT ORIENTATION

SHIELD THE GROUP FROM STRONG PRESSURES

IN THE DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

2012-H1 Highlights:

• Marginal increase of consolidated Turnover
• Launch of operation of all thermal and RES plants (with the exception of the Cogeneration plant) counterbalances the expected decline in turnover for METKA and the Metallurgy & Mining sector
• With exports accounting for 80% of activities and having successfully carried out €1 billion of investments in leading-edge energy assets during the last five years, the Group is making huge efforts to maintain its strong export orientation and successful course, despite all the institutional, banking, energy and operational problems in the Greek economy.

For the 1^st Semester of 2012 MYTILINEOS Group posted a consolidated turnover of €714.4 million, up 0.5% from €710.7 million for the same period in 2011, as a result of the increased contribution from the Energy sector. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for 2012-H1 stood at €80.0 million, down from €107.0 million in 2011. Net profits after tax and minority rights stood at €8.5 million, compared to €30.5 for the same semester of the previous year.

The EPC Projects Sector posted an already forecasted decline in turnover from the figures for 2011, which was a year of extraordinary but surely unsustainable performance, especially given the current situation in Greece and in the other countries where METKA operates. Activities in Greece were affected by the recession, which led to cancellation or postponement of any investments planned for projects of interest to the Company. In addition, the projects under way, especially with the PPC, have become a loss-generating activity for METKA, because of significant delays in implementation and financing for which the Company has no responsibility whatsoever. Activities abroad performed better than expected and counteracted the losses from the PPC projects. In particular, the turnover of the Group’s subsidiary METKA in 2012-H1 stood at €298.7 million, against €477.8 million in 2011. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) stood at €50.7 million, down from €72.3 million last year, while the EBITDA margin remained high (17.0%). Net profits after tax and minority rights stood at €40.1 million against €49.6 million for the same period in 2011.

The Group’s Metallurgy & Mining Sector is the business activity area that faces the biggest challenges during 2012. At the global level, around 50% of the sector’s companies are posting negative cash costs and cash flows. Within this negative global juncture, the Group’s Metallurgy & Mining Sector saw its turnover declining to €232.6 million, from €260.8 million for the same semester in 2011.

In this global environment, the Group has already under full swing a programme for the drastic reduction of operational costs in its Metallurgy & Mining sector, targeting $145 million annual savings, aimed at ensuring the long-term viability of this important sector for the domestic economy. In this effort, the Group has to overcome obstacles from the Greek bureaucracy, which is still holding back the Group’s Cogeneration plant (a €200 investment fully completed four years ago) from entering into full commercial operation. As a result, this plant generated €11.5 million of losses for the Group in 2012-H1 alone.

The Energy Sector, with two of Europe’s more efficient thermal plants now in full operation, along with wind farms and photovoltaic parks, made a significant contribution to the Group’s financial results for the 1^st Semester of 2012. In particular, the Sector’s turnover stood at €198.5 million, up from €34.6 million for the same period in 2011, and now accounts for 28% of the Group’s total turnover. It is pointed out here that the 2^nd Quarter of 2012 saw the first contribution from the 437 MW plant of KORINTHOS POWER, which entered into commercial operation in April 2012.

Other important developments during the 1^st Semester of 2012 were the following:

• The new three-year Joint Management Agreement signed for the supply of natural Gas by the Public Gas Corporation (DEPA) S.A., which ensures the smooth supply of natural gas to the Group’s three thermal power plants, while allowing the Group the flexibility to also make its own imports, constantly assessing the conditions that prevail in the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) market. At the same time, with the operation of all three thermal plants the Group continues to expand steadily its share of the domestic market for electricity production.

• The significant drop in prices in the London Metal Exchange (LME).

• The intensified strengthening of the US Dollar against the Euro.

• The higher prices for raw materials (mainly for Natural Gas), which are significantly de-escalating as of the mid-year.

• The continuing over-taxation of production (special taxes, charges etc.).

• The continuous upward pressures on borrowing rates, as a result of the Greek crisis.

• The great difficulty in securing Letters of Guarantee from acceptable Banking Institutions for participation in International Tender Procedures.

In this asphyxiating economic environment, the Group is rising to the challenges it is facing, thanks to the diversification and strong export orientation of its business activities, and to its considerable liquidity (€178 million as at 30/6/12).

For the rest of this year, the significant decline in the prices for raw materials, the launch of the implementation of new EPC projects, the progress in the implementation of the “MELLON” Programme, the increased liquidity and the contribution from the Group’s power plants, which will now span the whole of the 2^nd Semester, allow the Management to keep the forecast made in the General Meeting of the Shareholders of 12 May 2012, that “every possible effort will be made in order for the Group to maintain the results (Turnover, EBITDA, Net Profits) of 2011, which was a record year in the Group’s long history.”

For more details, please contact:

Mrs Katerina Mouzouraki, MYTILINEOS Group Press & Media Relations Supervisor (Tel.: 210 6877484, Fax: 210 6877400, e-mail: katerina.mouzouraki@mytilineos.gr).

MYTILINEOS Group is a leading Greek industry active in Metallurgy & Mines, Energy and EPC Projects. Established in Greece in 1990, the Group’s holding company, MYTILINEOS HOLDINGS S.A., is listed on the Athens Exchange, has a consolidated turnover in excess of €1.6 billion and employs some 2,500 people directly and many more indirectly in Greece and abroad. For more details, please visit the Group’s website at: www.mytilineos.gr.

Press Release

8/8/2012                 

Financial Results for the First Semester of 2012

DIVERSIFICATION AND EXPORT ORIENTATION

SHIELD THE GROUP FROM STRONG PRESSURES

IN THE DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

2012-H1 Highlights:

• Marginal increase of consolidated Turnover
• Launch of operation of all thermal and RES plants (with the exception of the Cogeneration plant) counterbalances the expected decline in turnover for METKA and the Metallurgy & Mining sector
• With exports accounting for 80% of activities and having successfully carried out €1 billion of investments in leading-edge energy assets during the last five years, the Group is making huge efforts to maintain its strong export orientation and successful course, despite all the institutional, banking, energy and operational problems in the Greek economy.

For the 1^st Semester of 2012 MYTILINEOS Group posted a consolidated turnover of €714.4 million, up 0.5% from €710.7 million for the same period in 2011, as a result of the increased contribution from the Energy sector. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for 2012-H1 stood at €80.0 million, down from €107.0 million in 2011. Net profits after tax and minority rights stood at €8.5 million, compared to €30.5 for the same semester of the previous year.

The EPC Projects Sector posted an already forecasted decline in turnover from the figures for 2011, which was a year of extraordinary but surely unsustainable performance, especially given the current situation in Greece and in the other countries where METKA operates. Activities in Greece were affected by the recession, which led to cancellation or postponement of any investments planned for projects of interest to the Company. In addition, the projects under way, especially with the PPC, have become a loss-generating activity for METKA, because of significant delays in implementation and financing for which the Company has no responsibility whatsoever. Activities abroad performed better than expected and counteracted the losses from the PPC projects. In particular, the turnover of the Group’s subsidiary METKA in 2012-H1 stood at €298.7 million, against €477.8 million in 2011. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) stood at €50.7 million, down from €72.3 million last year, while the EBITDA margin remained high (17.0%). Net profits after tax and minority rights stood at €40.1 million against €49.6 million for the same period in 2011.

The Group’s Metallurgy & Mining Sector is the business activity area that faces the biggest challenges during 2012. At the global level, around 50% of the sector’s companies are posting negative cash costs and cash flows. Within this negative global juncture, the Group’s Metallurgy & Mining Sector saw its turnover declining to €232.6 million, from €260.8 million for the same semester in 2011.

In this global environment, the Group has already under full swing a programme for the drastic reduction of operational costs in its Metallurgy & Mining sector, targeting $145 million annual savings, aimed at ensuring the long-term viability of this important sector for the domestic economy. In this effort, the Group has to overcome obstacles from the Greek bureaucracy, which is still holding back the Group’s Cogeneration plant (a €200 investment fully completed four years ago) from entering into full commercial operation. As a result, this plant generated €11.5 million of losses for the Group in 2012-H1 alone.

The Energy Sector, with two of Europe’s more efficient thermal plants now in full operation, along with wind farms and photovoltaic parks, made a significant contribution to the Group’s financial results for the 1^st Semester of 2012. In particular, the Sector’s turnover stood at €198.5 million, up from €34.6 million for the same period in 2011, and now accounts for 28% of the Group’s total turnover. It is pointed out here that the 2^nd Quarter of 2012 saw the first contribution from the 437 MW plant of KORINTHOS POWER, which entered into commercial operation in April 2012.

Other important developments during the 1^st Semester of 2012 were the following:

• The new three-year Joint Management Agreement signed for the supply of natural Gas by the Public Gas Corporation (DEPA) S.A., which ensures the smooth supply of natural gas to the Group’s three thermal power plants, while allowing the Group the flexibility to also make its own imports, constantly assessing the conditions that prevail in the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) market. At the same time, with the operation of all three thermal plants the Group continues to expand steadily its share of the domestic market for electricity production.

• The significant drop in prices in the London Metal Exchange (LME).

• The intensified strengthening of the US Dollar against the Euro.

• The higher prices for raw materials (mainly for Natural Gas), which are significantly de-escalating as of the mid-year.

• The continuing over-taxation of production (special taxes, charges etc.).

• The continuous upward pressures on borrowing rates, as a result of the Greek crisis.

• The great difficulty in securing Letters of Guarantee from acceptable Banking Institutions for participation in International Tender Procedures.

In this asphyxiating economic environment, the Group is rising to the challenges it is facing, thanks to the diversification and strong export orientation of its business activities, and to its considerable liquidity (€178 million as at 30/6/12).

For the rest of this year, the significant decline in the prices for raw materials, the launch of the implementation of new EPC projects, the progress in the implementation of the “MELLON” Programme, the increased liquidity and the contribution from the Group’s power plants, which will now span the whole of the 2^nd Semester, allow the Management to keep the forecast made in the General Meeting of the Shareholders of 12 May 2012, that “every possible effort will be made in order for the Group to maintain the results (Turnover, EBITDA, Net Profits) of 2011, which was a record year in the Group’s long history.”

For more details, please contact:

Mrs Katerina Mouzouraki, MYTILINEOS Group Press & Media Relations Supervisor (Tel.: 210 6877484, Fax: 210 6877400, e-mail: katerina.mouzouraki@mytilineos.gr).

MYTILINEOS Group is a leading Greek industry active in Metallurgy & Mines, Energy and EPC Projects. Established in Greece in 1990, the Group’s holding company, MYTILINEOS HOLDINGS S.A., is listed on the Athens Exchange, has a consolidated turnover in excess of €1.6 billion and employs some 2,500 people directly and many more indirectly in Greece and abroad. For more details, please visit the Group’s website at: www.mytilineos.gr.

"MARFIN INVESTMENT GROUP HOLDINGS S.A." hereby announces, according to Laws 3556/2007 and 3340/2005, resolution 1/434/03.07.2007 and Circular no. 33 of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission that on August 08, 2012 Mr. Andreas Vgenopoulos, Chairman of the Board of Directors of MIG, acquired 70,000 MIG shares, with total net value of EUR 13,492.41.

AutoHellas Hertz SA

PRESS RELEASE

Consolidated turnover reached €68.4mill from €81.5mill in the respective last year’s period, mainly as the result of the slow-down in sales of used vehicles returning from renting by €8.6mill or 45.5%. Short and long term rentals, which is the company’s main activity showed a decrease of €4.5mill or 7.2%.  

Consolidated earnings before tax, depreciation and financial results (EBITDA) reached €31.1mill, while operating cash flow has been increased to €19.6mill allowing the strengthening of cash deposits which in consolidated level reached €91.8mill despite loans being reduced by €14.5mill and dividend payment of another €5.5mill.

Mainly because of the extraordinary loss from investment activity (devaluation of Bank shares by €1.5mill) and the reduction of deferred tax due to change in tax rates in last year’s respective period, the company reported in consolidated losses after tax of €0.8mill . It must be noted that the main volume of short term renting takes place in the second half of the year which is when the company’s result is formed.

As of the 15^th of May, Autohellas possess the franchise for short term renting for Romania (Company had license only for Operating leasing up until now). Hence and with the recent addition of Serbia and Montenegro, the company now operates in 5 foreign countries, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Serbia and Montenegro, following a moderate growth plan with consistency, building a strong and healthy position in these countries.  

Current uncertainty and lack of economic stability affect substantially and in a negative way the market of used cars, something that is expected to have a similar influence in the company’s 2012 results. In addition, increased financial cost is expected to influence negatively the results as well.

          The combination of strong capital base of €135mill, the leading market position and the highly competitive cost base and cash reserves, guarantee the company’s stamina as well as its ability to support its growth in the Balkan countries.      

Athens, August 8, 2012

Press Release

Eurobank submits offer for the acquisition of Emporiki Bank

In the framework of procedures and conditions defined by the regulatory authorities and the Financial Stability Fund, Eurobank has today submitted a binding offer, subject to regulatory approval, to acquire 100% stake in Emporiki Bank from Credit Agricole.-

ANNOUNCEMENT