Acquisition of Filtral SARL, Bois le Rois, France

mutares AG buys the French Filtral SARL(http://www.filtral.fr/) from the Uvex-Group. Filtral SARL sells and distributes sunglasses under the brands Filtral, elite, Enfandises, Liberto, Polavision, Revlon, Scara, UV Sport und x-treme.

The most important customers of Filtral SARL are almost all major French supermarket chains. Selling about 1,3 million sunglasses annually, the company has a 30% share of the fashionable and well-priced sunglasses market in France.

mutares sees significant potential in increasing Filtral’s sales activities and in the introduction of new brands.