Press Releases

• 2010 Corporate events. Variation of date and time of the Board meeting to examine the 2009 preliminary year-end data.

• Turin, February 8, 2010. Pininfarina S.p.A. informs that, partially amending the communication of January 11 2010, the Board meeting to examine the 2009 preliminary year-end data is anticipated to February 16 2010, 4 p.m. instead of February 26, 11 a.m., as previously communicated.

• 8 February 2010

• The Olympic Museum shows the Torino 2006 icons designed by Pininfarina

• Turin, February 3rd, 2010. They have been the icons of Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games and they are both signed by Pininfarina. The Olympic Torch and a 1:50 scale model of the Cauldron raised outside the Olympic Stadium are exposed in the new Olympic Museum in Turin.  …

• 3 February 2010

• Pininfarina at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, the first official image of the concept car

• A 2-seater spider on Alfa Romeo basis, which will be unveiled on March 2nd at the Pininfarina stand, thus starting the celebrations for the 80th anniversary

  Turin January 29th, 2010 – Pininfarina discloses the first official image of its new concept car, world debut on March 2nd at the Geneva Motor Show.
  
  The Pininfarina new concept is meant to be part of the tradition of successful spiders born from the relationship with Alfa Romeo, among the most significant and long-lasting ones in the automobile history, and interprets the innovative vision of an antique theme strongly present in the Pininfarina roots, the 2-seater spider.

  An iconic object that, binding with an ideal thread the past and the future of Pininfarina, starts the celebrations for its 80th anniversary, representing at the same time an homage to the Alfa Romeo 100th birthday.

• 29 January 2010

• Pininfarina and De Tomaso Automobili Sign the Final Contract for the Sale of Business Operations

• Pininfarina also signed a final agreement for the sale of the Grugliasco industrial facility to Sviluppo Investimenti Territorio S.r.l., a subsidiary of FinPiemonte-Partecipazioni S.p.A., which is a finance company controlled by the Piedmont Regional Administration.…

• 31 December 2009

• Revealed the new Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta one-off designed by Pininfarina

• Turin, December 15 2009 - The first shake-down has been held at Fiorano of a very special one-off, the P540 Superfast Aperta, built for an American client. The car, designed by Pininafrina, the second in a new Special Projects programme created by Ferrari to meet requests from the most discerning clients and collectors to create truly unique models, is based on the 599 GTB Fiorano and was inspired by a Carrozzeria Fantuzzi-designed Ferrari built specifically for the 1968 Fellini film, “Toby Dammit”, itself inspired by one of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.  …

• 15 December 2009

• Pininfarina elected best designer of the year 2009

• For the fourth time Pininfarina receives the prestigious “Trophée du Design” assigned by the French magazine L’Automobile Magazine

  Turin December 10, 2009 - Pininfarina is the best designer of the year 2009. It has been established by the jury of the French magazine L’Automobile Magazine, that assigned the 2009 Trophée du Design to the Pininfarina Group for having confirmed its supremacy in the automotive design signing two among the most appreciated cars of this year, the Ferrari 458 Italia and the Maserati GranCabrio. On December 15th in Paris the award will be collected by the Chairman Paolo Pininfarina, accompanied by the CEO Silvio Angori and the Design Director Lowie Vermeersch.  …

• 10 December 2009

• Pininfarina-De Tomaso, union consultation procedure positively completed

• Turin, November 20 2009 – Pininfarina S.p.A. and De Tomaso Automobili SpA (former Innovation Auto Industry S.p.A. (IAI)) met today with union organisations at Unione Industriale-AMMA of Turin for the union consultation procedure required by Article 47 of Law No. 428 of December 29, 1990 in connection with the sale of the Business Operations related to the Grugliasco plant.  …

• 20 November 2009

• Quarterly Report of the Pininfarina Group. Going Concern Viability and Outlook for the Balance of 2009.

• Results in line with the Financial Plan.
  Compared with the first nine months of 2008: value of production decreases by 62%, EBITDA are lower but remain positive and the net loss is reduced by 27%.
  Compared with December 31, 2008: significant improvement with regard to net borrowings (down more than 50%) and shareholders’ equity following the completion of the Second Phase of the recapitalization and debt restructuring agreements executed with the Lender Institutions.

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• 12 November 2009

• Pininfarina and Innovation in Auto Industry (IAI) started the union consultation procedure for the sale of the Business Operations

• Turin, November 10 2009 – Pininfarina S.p.A. and Innovation Auto Industry S.p.A. (IAI) started today the union consultation procedure required by Article 47 of Law No. 428 of December 29, 1990 in connection with the sale of the Business Operations and transfer of employees to IAI, a company wholly owned by the Rossignolo Family whose Chairman of the Board of Directors is Gian Mario Rossignolo. The consultation procedure is preparatory to the final conclusion of the operation, whose preliminary contract was signed on October 15 2009.

• 11 November 2009

• Agreement between Pininfarina and IAI and irrevocable offer to buy the Grugliasco industrial facility by FinPiemonte-Partecipazioni - Additional information amending the previous press release

• Turin, October 15, 2009.

  As additional information concerning the press release issued this morning, the Company specifies that the consideration for the sale of the business operations subject of a preliminary sales contract signed by Pininfarina and IAI (Innovation in Auto Industry S.p.A.) is 2 million euros. The irrevocable offer to buy the Grugliasco factory received from FinPiemonte-Partecipazioni S.p.A., a finance company controlled by the Piedmont Regional Administration, is for 15 million euros. The abovementioned sale of business operations and real estate transaction are parts of an overall agreement, pursuant to which, among other stipulations, the proceeds from the real estate sale will be used to fund the provision for termination indemnities applicable to the transferred employees and the guarantees and other charges arising from the implementation of the contracts.

• 15 October 2009

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