Mermeren Kombinat AD Prilep (the “Company”) refers to a distribution agreement entered into in April 2009 (the “Agreement”) with FHL Manufacturing & Trading Co. I. Kyriakidis Granites & Marbles SA (“FHL”) relating to the international distribution of the Company’s products, and announces that it has exercised an option provided for in the Agreement whereby, for the remaining term of the Agreement the Company will no longer be subject to certain contractual restrictions including, notably, the exclusivity obligation to sell its products through FHL.