8 December 2008
Plaza Centers N.V.
('Plaza' or the 'Company')
MARKET PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES
Plaza Centers, a leading emerging markets property developer, today announces that, pursuant to an authority granted by the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting on 27 May 2008 to make market purchases of its own shares, Plaza purchased on Friday, December 5, 2008, 349,683 shares at a price between 53.75 Pence and 54 Pence per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.
Following the purchase of these shares the number of shares with voting rights in issue (excluding shares held in treasury) will be 285,594,942 and the number of shares in treasury will be 6,836,439.
ENDS
For further details please contact:
Plaza
Mordechay Zisser, Chairman
Ran Shtarkman, President and CEO
Roy Linden, CFO
+972 3 6086000
+36 1 462 7221
+36 1 462 7105
Financial Dynamics
Stephanie Highett/Laurence Jones
+44 20 7831 3113
Notes to Editors
Plaza Centers N.V. (www.plazacenters.com) is a leading emerging markets developer of shopping and entertainment centres. It focuses on constructing new centres and, where there is significant redevelopment potential, redeveloping existing centres in both capital cities and important regional centres. The Company is dual listed on the Main Board of the London Stock Exchange and, as of 19 October 2007, the Warsaw Stock Exchange (LSE:'PLAZ', WSE: 'PLZ/PLAZACNTR'). Plaza Centers N.V. is an indirect subsidiary of Elbit Imaging Ltd. ('EIL'), an Israeli public company whose shares are traded on both the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in Israel and the NASDAQ Global Market in the United States.
Plaza Centers is a member of the Europe Israel Group of companies which is controlled by its founder, Mr. Mordechay Zisser. It has been active in real estate development in emerging markets for over 12 years.