NIREUS S.A.

Payment of Interest, Capital Surcharge and Withholding Tax on the Convertible Bond Loan (Tenth Period)

NIREUS SA informs that Wednesday, July 11, 2012, is the record date to ascertain the beneficiaries for making the 10th period payment of interest on its Convertible Bond Loan (CBL) traded in the Athens Exchange and issued on 12/7/2007 with Bondholders' Representative and Proxy Payer the Bank EFG Eurobank-Ergasias SA.

At 12.07.2012, the Issuer will pay a total amount of 689.067,51 € that breaks down as follows:

  • accrued interest for the 10th interest period the amount of 94.786,82 €, or € 0.049393 per bond
  • the amount of 12.875,37 €, that is portion of the total surcharge of 31,01% and of the capital, or  0,0067093 € per bond, and that will be paid without withholding tax
  • the amount of 581.405.32 € which corresponds to 10% (withholding tax) to be paid on the total surcharge (€ 5.814.053,17), or 0,302968 € per bond.

All the 1.919.034 bonds of the CBL currently trading in the Athens Exchange are entitled to the above amount.  The amount due will be paid to the bondholders on Thursday, July 12, 2012.