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Nokian Tyres plc: Shares subscribed with option rights

Nokia, Finland, 2012-05-22 07:45 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nokian Tyres plc
Stock Exchange Release 22 May 2012  8:45 a.m. 

Nokian Tyres plc: Shares subscribed with option rights

After 21 February 2012 registered new shares a total of 1,041,159 Nokian Tyres
plc's shares have been subscribed with the 2007B option rights and 325,172 with
the 2007C option rights. These option rights are attached to the Nokian Tyres
plc's Option Programs of 2007. The subscription time with the 2007B option
rights ended on 31 March 2012. 

New shares have been registered into the Trade Register on 22 May 2012, 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 25,319,679.96 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
131,862,726 shares. 

The shares will be traded on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd together with the old
shares as of 23 May 2012. 

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

Trading code: NRE1V

ISIN code: FI0009005318

Number of shares: 131,862,726

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