Nokian Tyres plc: Shares subscribed with option rights

After 20 May, 2010 registered increase in share capital a total of 150 Nokian Tyres plc’s shares have been subscribed with the 2007A option rights. These option rights are attached to the Nokian Tyres plc’s Option Programs of 2007. New shares have been registered into the Trade Register 19 August, 2010.

The share capital will not increase with subscriptions made by 2007A option rights. The sum, corresponding to earlier nominal value, will be entered into the reserve for invested unrestricted equity.

The shares will be traded on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd together with the old shares as of 20 August, 2010.

Identifiers of Nokian Tyres plc’s share after the registration of new shares:

Trading code: NRE1V
ISIN code: FI0009005318
Number of shares: 127,189,980
Share capital: 25,437,906.00 euros

Nokian Tyres plc

Antti-Jussi Tähtinen
Vice President, Marketing and Communications

Distribution: NASDAQ OMX, media, www.nokiantyres.com