Viohalco : Approval and passporting of the Prospectus and admission to listing of the new shares resulting from the cross-border merger

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PRESS RELEASE OF VIOHALCO SA

Brussels, 1 March 2016

The enclosed information constitutes regulated information as defined in the Belgian Royal Decree of 14 November 2007 regarding the duties of issuers of financial instruments which have been admitted to trading on a regulated market.

Approval and passporting of the Prospectus and admission to listing of the new shares resulting from the cross-border merger

Viohalco SA, a public limited liability company incorporated under Belgian law (Viohalco) announces today that the prospectus (the Prospectus) relating to the admission to listing and trading of 38.250.030 new ordinary shares on Euronext Brussels in the context of the cross- border merger by absorption by Viohalco of the Greek companies Elval Holdings Société Anonyme (Elval), Diatour, Management and Tourism Société Anonyme (Diatour), Alcomet Copper and Aluminium Société Anonyme (Alcomet) and the Luxembourg company Eufina S.A. (Eufina), has been published.

The Prospectus was approved by the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority, the FSMA, on 1 March 2016 and passported to the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, the HCMC, on the same date.

The Prospectus is available in English, with a translation of the summary in French and Dutch. For the purpose of its passporting to Greece pursuant to articles 17 and 18 of Greek law 3401/2005, the Prospectus is also available in its entirety in Greek. The Prospectus will be made available to investors at no cost at the Company's registered seat, and will also be available to investors on Viohalco's website (www.viohalco.com).

Viohalco further announces that Euronext Brussels has approved, on 1 March 2016, Viohalco's request for the admission to listing on the regulated market of Euronext Brussels of the

38.250.030 new shares issued in the context of the cross-border merger. It is expected that the Hellenic Exchange will approve Viohalco's request for the admission to listing (secondary listing) of such 38.250.030 new shares on the Athens Stock Exchange on the 2nd of March 2016.

The effective listing and trading on Euronext Brussels and on the Athex Stock Exchange of the

38.250.030 new shares of Viohalco issued in the context of the cross-border merger is expected to start concomitantly on 7 March 2016.

About Viohalco

Viohalco is the holding company of various metal processing companies in Europe, based in Belgium. With production facilities in Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, FYROM and the United Kingdom, Viohalco's subsidiaries specialise in the manufacture of aluminium, copper and cables, and steel and steel pipes products, generating an annual revenue of EUR 2.9 billion. In addition, Viohalco and its companies own substantial real estate properties in Greece and have redeveloped some of its properties as real estate development projects. For more information about our company, please visit our website at www.viohalco.com.