Flint Group Provides Insight into Expected Raw Material Cost Developments in 2012

LUXEMBOURG—March 9, 2012—“There is a misplaced view that raw material costs for the graphic art industry are coming down” says Jan Paul van der Velde, senior vice president procurement of Flint Group. “After more than 1.5 years of costs constantly increasing, people have clearly been looking for good news and the fact that we witnessed prices generally stabilize in the fourth quarter of 2011, caused a sensing that things were actually improving. The fact that people were hearing on an almost daily basis about the economic crisis, prompted them to also assume that these difficult times would contribute to raw material costs going down.”