Nireus Aquaculture SA informs the investing public that it has received four letters from the banks and shareholders of the Company, namely those of Piraeus, Eurobank, National Bank and Alpha Bank, that have informed the Company that they are investigating the available alternatives with respect to the optimization of their shareholdings in the share capital of the Company with the assistance of Lazard Frères SAS, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Alvarez & Marsal, as financial advisors, along with consultation of the law firm Koutalidis as a legal advisor. Within this context, the above banks have decided to instruct their advisers to organize a competitive bidding process, which may result in the sale of all or part of their shareholding participation in Nireus.

The four banks participate in the share capital of Nireus with the following percentage shareholding:

Piraeus Bank 32,51%

Eurobank     15,64%

National Bank of Greece 6,18 %

Alpha Bank    20,65 %