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Nokian Tyres plc: Shares subscribed with option rights

Nokia, Finland, 2013-05-14 10:30 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nokian Tyres plc
Stock Exchange Release 14 May 2013, 11.30 a.m. 

Nokian Tyres plc: Shares subscribed with option rights

After 19 February 2013 registered new shares a total of 160,246 Nokian Tyres
plc's shares have been subscribed with the 2007C option rights and 127,320 with
the 2010A option rights. These option rights are attached to the Nokian Tyres
plc's Option Programs of 2007 and 2010. The subscription time with the 2007C
option rights ended on 31 March 2013. 

New shares have been registered into the Trade Register on 14 May 2013, as of
which date the new shares will establish shareholder rights. 

The share capital will not increase with subscriptions made by 2007 and 2010
option rights. The entire subscription price of EUR 2,915,091.44 will be
entered in the invested unrestricted equity reserve. As a result of the share
subscriptions, the number of Nokian Tyres plc shares will increase to
132,609,496 shares. 

The shares will be traded on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd together with the old
shares as of 15 May 2013. 
Identifiers of Nokian Tyres plc's share after the registration of new shares:

Trading code: NRE1V
ISIN code: FI0009005318
Number of shares: 132,609,496
Share capital: 25,437,906.00 euros

Nokian Tyres plc
Antti-Jussi Tähtinen
Vice President, Marketing and Communications

Distribution: NASDAQ OMX, media, www.nokiantyres.com