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Payment of the interim dividend for the year 2007

It is announced that the Board of Directors of the Company in its meeting of November 8th, 2007 decided the distribution of an interim dividend of 0.20 Euro per share as advance payment for the year 2007 dividend. Shareholders entitled to the interim dividend are the owners of the shares of the Company at the closing of the trading day of the Athens Exchange of December 3rd, 2007 according to the clearing of the Hellenic Exchanges S.A (previously Central Securities Depository – CSD – S.A.). The shares of the Company will be trading ex-interim dividend as of December 4th, 2007. 

The payment of the interim dividend for the year 2007 to the shareholders will be effected according to one of the following options through the payee bank BANK OF PIRAEUS S.A on December 12th, 2007: 

1.Through the Dematerialized Securities System (S.A.T) Operators (banks, brokerage – securities firms) according to the payment procedure defined in article 329 of the Athens Exchange Regulation and in article 39 of the CSD Regulation

2.Shareholders who have revoked the dividend collection authorization to their S.A.T Operators will be attended to at any branch of BANK OF PIRAEUS S.A

3. Shareholders not credited by their S.A.T Operators, for whatever reason, will be attended to at any branch of BANK OF PIRAEUS S.A after December 18th, 2007. 

For the cases 2 and 3 described above, shareholders can collect the interim dividend in person or through their legally authorized representative until June 30th, 2008 by presenting to the payee bank a copy of their S.A.T details and their Identification Card. 

After June 30th, 2008 the collection of the interim dividend will be possible only from the Headquarters of the Company, Shareholders´ Department (12A Irodou Attikou str., 151 24 Maroussi tel. 210 8094 042). 

Interim dividend collection certificates (for tax purposes) for the cases 2 and 3 will be issued by BANK OF PIRAEUS S.A while shareholders falling into case 1 will be attended to by the Shareholders´ Department of the Company (tel. 210 8094 042). 

Dividends which will not be collected within 5 years are written off in favor of the Hellenic State.

 

MAROUSSI, 13 NOVEMBER 2007 

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Amount of interim dividend for the year 2007

The Board of Directors of the Company in its meeting dated November 8th, 2007 decided the distribution of the amount of Euro 0.20 per share as an interim dividend for the year 2007. 

The interim dividend will be paid at least twenty (20) days after the fulfillment of the publications and formalities provided for by Law 2190/1920 as this Law has been amended and it is in force.  The ex – interim dividend date as well as the interim dividend payment commencement date will be determined with a subsequent decision of the Board of Directors. 

In  any case the ex-interim dividend 2007 and the first day of payment will take place prior to December 21st, 2007 which signifies the expiration date for the Futures Contracts on the Company´ s stock and on the FTSE/ATHEX 20 index in which it is included.

MAROUSSI, 8 NOVEMBER 2007 

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Announcement in the context of Law 3556/2007

It is hereby announced that on November 6th, 2007 Mr. Demosthenes N. Vardinoyannis, non-executive BoD Member (person obliged to acknowledge his stock exchange transactions on the Company’s shares according to article 13 of Law 3340/2005) bought 500 Company shares of total value  € 8,500.

Maroussi, November 7th, 2007.