Update to Credit Rating

RNS Number : 5688A

Plaza Centers N.V.

21 March 2013

 



21 March 2013

STANDARD & POOR'S UPDATES CREDIT RATING FOR PLAZA CENTERS' NOTES

Plaza Centers N.V. ("Plaza" or the "Company"), a leading emerging markets property developer, today announces that S&P Maalot ("Maalot"), the Israeli credit rating agency which is a division of International Standard & Poor's, has updated the credit rating of Plaza's two series of Notes to "ilBB+/Negative" on a local Israeli scale with exclusion from the negative CreditWatch list. On an international scale the rating was updated to CCC+.

A full copy of S&P Maalot's reports is available at: http://www.plazacenters.com/index.php?p=financial_reports_2013

For further details please contact:

Plaza Ran Shtarkman, President and CEO Roy Linden, CFO	[phone] [phone]
Financial Dynamics Stephanie Highett/Daniel O'Donnell	[phone]

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, on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (LSE:"PLAZ", WSE: "PLZ/PLAZACNTR"). Plaza Centers N.V. is an indirect subsidiary of Elbit Imaging Ltd. ("EI"), an Israeli public company whose shares are traded on both the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in Israel and on 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 17 years.

 

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