RB 21/2013 Information on Candidate to AmRest Supervisory Board

The Management Board of AmRest Holdings SE (“AmRest”,”Issuer”) informs about receiving on June 4th, 2013 from one of the AmRest shareholders, Warburg Pincus Holdings VII B.V., with its registered head office in Amsterdam, the notice of intention to nominate Mr. Peter A. Bassi (“the Candidate”) as independent candidate to AmRest Supervisory Board during Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting on June 27th, 2013.

Mr. Peter A. Bassi recently served as Managing Director/Partner of Verto Partners LLC. Between 1997 and 2005 Mr. Bassi was President and Chairman of YUM! Restaurants International (YRI) responsible for more than 12,000 restaurants located in more than 100 countries. He was also in charge of YRIs Asian business.

Prior to that Mr. Bassi held a number of management positions in PepsiCo/ YRI (including Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer roles), working for Pepsi-Cola Company, PepsiCo Restaurants International, Frito-Lay, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Mr. Bassi joined the Pepsi-Cola Company in 1972.

Mr. Bassi sits on two Boards of Directors – BJ’s Restaurants Inc. where he is the Lead Independent Director (also sits on Audit and Compensation Committees) and Potbelly Sandwich Works where he chairs the Audit Committee. He was previously on the Board of Directors of EPL Intermediate Inc. (2008 to 2009) and The Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack (2002-2009).

Mr. Bassi received his Bachelor’s BS in Mathematics and MBA in Finance from the University of Rhode Island.

In accordance with the statement received from the Candidate, AmRest informs that Mr. Peter A. Bassi performances outside the Issuer’s business are not competitive towards the business of the Issuer and the Candidate does not participate in a competitive company as a partner in a registered partnership or other types of partnership, a member of the governing bodies in a corporate organization and does not participate in another competitive legal person as a member of its governing bodies. Mr. Bassi is not listed in the Insolvent Debtor Register kept in accordance of the Law on National Court Register.

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