RB 4/2007 Memorandum of Understanding with Starbucks

The Management Board of AmRest Holdings N.V. (AmRest) announces the confidential information which public disclosure was delayed pursuant to § 57 (1) of the Act on Public Offering, Conditions Governing the Introduction of Financial Instruments to Organized Trading, and Public Companies dated July 29th 2005 (the Offering Act). The information about the delay discharge of the obligation resulting from the § 56 (1) of the Offering Act was forwarded to Financial Supervision Authority on the 26th of January 2007.

The delay concerned the information about the signing of the non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between AmRest and Starbucks Coffee EMEA B.V. (Starbucks) on the 25th of January 2007. The MOU concerns the potential cooperation with regards to opening and operating Starbucks restaurants by a joint venture company between AmRest and Starbucks.

Legal act:

§ 56 (1) of the Offering Act dated July 29th 2005