Neo Industrial Oyj - Company Announcement

NEO INDUSTRIAL PLC’S DEMERGER PROSPECTUS APPROVED

NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR
INTO THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, HONG KONG, SOUTH AFRICA OR JAPAN OR
ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. 

NEO INDUSTRIAL PLC         STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE    1 November 2012 at 15.00

The Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority has today, 1 November 2012,
approved Neo Industrial Plc's ("Neo Industrial" or the "Company") demerger
prospectus (the "Prospectus") relating to the separation of Neo Industrial
Group's businesses so that after the entry into force of the demerger, the
fibres business will be operated in a newly established public company, Avilon
Plc, and its Group, as published by Neo Industrial on 16 August 2012. 

From this day on the Finnish language Prospectus is available on the Company's
webpage http://www.neoindustrial.fi/en/demerger-prospectus.html and at the
registered office of the Company located at Aleksanterinkatu 48 A, 00100
Helsinki, Finland. 

Neo Industrial releases its financial statements for January-September 2012 on
7 November 2012. 



Neo Industrial Plc



Jari Salo
Managing Director



For further information, please contact:
Jari Salo, Managing Director, tel. +358 207 209 196
Sari Tulander, Chief Financial Officer, tel. +358 207  209 192

www.neoindustrial.fi

Neo Industrial's strategy is to invest mainly in industrial companies with
similar synergic benefits. The aim of investments is with active ownership to
develop the purchased companies and establish additional value. Returns are
sought through both dividend flow and an increase in value. Neo Industrial's
class B shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Stock Exchange. Neo
Industrial's business segments are Cable and Viscose Fibers. 

The distribution of this Prospectus in certain countries is prohibited by law.
The shares are not being offered to the public either inside or outside of
Finland. Persons resident outside of Finland may receive this Prospectus only
in compliance with applicable exemptions or restrictions. Persons into whose
possession this Prospectus may come are required to inform themselves about and
comply with such restrictions. This Prospectus may not be distributed or
published in any country or jurisdiction if to do so would constitute a
violation of the relevant laws of such jurisdiction or would require actions
under the laws of a state or jurisdiction other than Finland, including the
USA, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan. The information contained herein
shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy
the Recipient Company's shares to any persons in any jurisdiction in which such
offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. Neither the Recipient Company
nor the Recipient Company's representatives assume any legal responsibility for
such violations, regardless of whether the parties contemplating investing in
the Recipient Company's shares are aware of these restrictions or not. The
shares of the Recipient Company have not been and will not be registered under
the US Securities Act of 1933, nor under any securities legislation of any
state in the USA, and they may not be offered, sold, resold delivered,
distributed, bought or transferred in the United States or to US citizens or on
behalf of US citizens, except pursuant to an exemption from the registration
requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 or from state legislation