Nokian Renkaat - Company Announcement

NOKIAN TYRES PLC: SHARES SUBSCRIBED WITH OPTION RIGHTS

Nokia, Finland, 2011-12-14 08:00 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nokian Tyres plc 
Stock Exchange Release 14 December 2011 9.00 a.m. 

NOKIAN TYRES PLC: SHARES SUBSCRIBED WITH OPTION RIGHTS

After 14 November 2011 registered new shares a total of 125 Nokian Tyres plc's
shares have been subscribed with the 2007B option rights and 40 000 with the
2007C option rights. These option rights are attached to the Nokian Tyres plc's
Option Programs of 2007. 

New shares have been registered into the Trade Register on 14 December 2011, as
of which date the new shares will establish shareholder rights. 

The share capital will not increase with subscriptions made by 2007 option
rights. The entire subscription price of EUR 306 390.00 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 129,609,840 shares. 

The shares will be traded on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd together with the old
shares as of 15 December 2011. 

Identifiers of Nokian Tyres plc's share after the registration of new shares:

Trading code: NRE1V

ISIN code: FI0009005318

Number of shares: 129,609,840

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