Moscow, 17 September 2012
X5 Retail Group N.V., (“X5” or the “Company”), Russia’s largest retailer in terms of sales (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), announced today that the Company and the Tula Regional Administration have signed a Cooperation Agreement (the “Agreement”) to implement an investment project to develop the region’s retail infrastructure. The Agreement was signed by Mikhail Susov, X5’s Corporate Relations Director, and Vladimir Gruzdev, Governor of the Tula Region. Yulia Peskovskaya, Deputy Governor, Deputy Chief of the Representative Office of the Administration of the Tula Region in the Russian Government, also attended the signing ceremony.