Rosinter Restaurants Holding Announces Successful Bond Put Option Exercise Payment

By Prne, Gaea News Network
Thursday, June 4, 2009

MOSCOW - OJSC Rosinter Restaurants Holding (Rosinter), the leading casual dining restaurants chain in Russia and CIS (RTS and MICEX ticker: ROST), announces that on June 4th, 2009 it purchased non-convertible bonds from its bondholders who exercised their Put Option. The funding was provided by a three-year loan which the Company received from Sberbank for a total amount of 950,000,000 Roubles.

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Alexander Roslavtsev, CFO commented:

“We are very pleased with this long-term financing from Sberbank, one of our main traditional banking partners. This loan, which has been secured in such a difficult credit environment, is an important component of our financing plans and supports our strategy to continue expanding the geographical coverage of our brands to a wider guest base”

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OJSC Rosinter Restaurants Holding is the leading casual dining restaurant company that operates 337 outlets in Russia, the CIS and Central Europe, including Baltic countries (as of December 31, 2008). The Company offers Italian, Japanese, American and Russian cuisine under its proprietary brands IL Patio, Planet Sushi and 1-2-3 Cafe and its licensed brands T.G.I. Friday’s and Sibirskaya Corona. Also, through a Joint Venture with Whitbread PLC (LSE ticker WTB.L) the company is currently developing the Costa Coffee chain in Russia (12 outlets as of December 31, 2008). The Group reported consolidated revenues of US$ 268.2 million, in accordance with its audited IFRS accounts, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2007. Rosinter Restaurants Holding is listed in RTS (www.rts.ru) and MICEX (www.micex.ru) under the stock ticker ROST.

Investors and analysts enquiries: Amin Muci Head of Investor Relations Eduard Pilipenko Deputy Head of Investor Relations e-mail ir@rosinter.ru Office +7-495-788-44-88 ext. 2785 Press enquiries: Valeria Silina PR director Ekaterina Korobkova Press-secretary e-mail: 2pr@rosinter.ru tel.: +7-495-788-44-88 ext.2426

Source: Rosinter Restaurant Holding

Investors and analysts enquiries:, Amin Muci, Head of Investor Relations, Eduard Pilipenko, Deputy Head of Investor Relations, e-mail ir at rosinter.ru, Office + 7-495-788-44-88 ext. 2785; Press enquiries:, Valeria Silina, PR director, Ekaterina Korobkova, Press-secretary, e-mail: 2pr at rosinter.ru, tel.: +7-495-788-44-88 ext.2426

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