Nokian Renkaat - Company Announcement

Nokian Tyres plc: Shares subscribed with option rights

Nokia, Finland, 2012-12-17 07:45 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nokian Tyres plc Stock
Exchange Release 17 December 2012  8.45 a.m. 

Nokian Tyres plc: Shares subscribed with option rights

After 12 November 2012 registered new shares a total of 350 Nokian Tyres plc's
shares have been subscribed with the 2007C option rights. These option rights
are attached to the Nokian Tyres plc's Option Program of 2007. 

New shares have been registered into the Trade Register on 17 December 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 2,236.50 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 131,957,127 shares. 

The shares will be traded on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd together with the old
shares as of 18 December 2012. 

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

Trading code: NRE1V

ISIN code: FI0009005318

Number of shares: 131,957,127

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