Within the framework of the release of HELLENIC FABRICS S.A. Group's interim financial statements, for the first half of 2015, and in accordance to paragraph 4.1.4.4. of ATHEX Regulation, the GroupΆs management announces the following:

 ATHEX Board of Directors in its meeting of 24.11.2011 decided the transfer of the companyΆs shares to the “Under Supervision Category”, effective from Friday, 25.11.2011, based on the fact that the companyΆs annual financial report of 31.12.2010 reported losses in excess of 30% of its net value.

 Also ATHEX Board of Directors, decided in its meeting of 01/04/2014 and after a request of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, the temporary suspension of the trading of the shares of the Company, due to the fact that the Company did not publish its annual financial statements for 2013 within the appropriate deadlines. In a new announcement dated 30/07/2014, after a request of the Capital Market Commission, the ATHEX Board of Directors informed that the temporary suspension of the trading of the CompanyΆs shares is still active and will be lifted when the independent auditor expresses an opinion for the financial statements of fiscal year 2013 and the Company publishes the interim financial statements of the first quarter of 2014, which were published on August the 6^th 2014. 

 In the time elapsed between the decision for the transferring of the companyΆs shares to the “Under Supervision Category” and the publication of the annual financial statements of 2014, it has not been possible to meet the necessary and sufficient criteria and conditions laid down in the regulation of the Athens Stock Exchange in order to request the exit of the shares from the supervision category.

 As the GroupΆs Management referred in the published annual report of 2014, the lack of working capital created by the flood of 2013 in the factory facilities of denim in Pella, has resulted to stop temporarily the activity of the factory in order to constraint fixed costs of the specific factory and until the finalization of the process with the lending banks for its loan restructuring and also until sufficient conditions are created for its proper reoperation. 

 Main concern of the GroupΆs Management still remains the implementation of actions aiming at the best possible utilization of all business units of the Group, while it is in an final stage of concluding the negotiations with the banks in order to continue providing support for refinancing and loansΆ restructuring, whereas these efforts are expected to reach a final agreement soon.

 The above financial statements together with the Figures and Information for the first half of 2015 are posted on the Athens Stock Exchange (www.helex.gr) and the companyΆs websites (www.hellenicfabrics.gr).