PRESS RELEASE

TBS Group: Report on the Purchase of Own Shares
TBS Group announces the purchase of 3,291 own shares (corresponding to 0.00780% of the share capital) in the period between 24/12/2012 and 28/12/2012 through the AIM Italia multilateral trading facility, at an average unit price of euro 0.819912 with an exchange value of euro 2,698.33, upon authorization for the purchase of own shares as decided by the Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting on 31 January 2012 (already addressed in the corporate disclosure pursuant to art. 17 of the Regolamento Emittenti AIM Italia (AIM Italia Rules for Companies).
Details on purchase transactions are provided in the table below and displayed by transaction date:

Transaction date

No. of transactions

Number of shares purchased

% Share

Capital

Weighted average price (euro)

Exchange value (euro)

27/12/2012

2

1,660

0.00393

0.810000

1,344.60

28/12/2012

2

1,631

0.00387

0.830000

1,353.73

TOTAL

3,291

0.00780

0.819912

2,698.33

Following the purchases reported on today's date, the overall sum of own shares held by TBS Group is 751,506, equal to 1.78% of the share capital, of which 501,031 shares were already held.
The number of shares issued minus the total number of own shares held by TBS Group following the purchases announced on today's date is 41,434,070. The purchases of own shares were made in compliance with authorization from the Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting on
31 January 2012, exclusively through the AIM Italia multilateral trading facility, organized and managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A., according to established operating procedures, which do not allow for the direct matching of purchase trading proposals with preset sales negotiation
proposals.
Pursuant to the provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) no. 2273/2003, the daily number of purchases do not exceed 25% of the average daily volume of shares traded in the 20 trading days preceding the date of purchase.

The Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting of 31 January 2012 authorized the purchase of 263,179 own shares, added to the 501,031 own shares owned by the TBS Group on that date, will constitute 1.812% of the share capital.

For further information: www.tbsgroup.com
TBS Group
Paolo Salotto
tel.: +39 040 92291
e-mail: ir@italtbs.com
Trieste, 2 January 2013

This press release is an English translation of the original Italian language version. In the event of any inconsistency or difficult interpretation, the Italian language version shall prevail.

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