Petroplus Holdings AG (SWX: PPHN), in accordance with Art. 20 of
the Federal Act on Stock Exchanges and Securities Trading, received on
December 11, 2006 the following information from a shareholder:
FMR Corp., located at 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, MA 02109, USA,
has acquired through its direct and indirect subsidiaries 3,765,470
registered shares of Petroplus Holdings AG. This represents a total
shareholding of approximately 6.17%. FMR Corp. is the parent holding
company of Fidelity Management & Research Company, investment manager
for US mutual funds, and Fidelity Management Trust Company, a US state
chartered bank which acts as a trustee or investment manager of
various pension and trust accounts.
About Petroplus Holdings AG:
Petroplus Holdings AG is one of the largest independent refiners
and wholesalers of petroleum products in Europe. Petroplus focuses on
refining and currently owns and operates three refineries across
Europe: the Cressier refinery in the canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland,
the Teesside refinery in Teesside, United Kingdom and the Belgium
Refining Company ("BRC") refinery in Antwerp, Belgium. Petroplus has
entered into an agreement with ExxonMobil Central Europe Holding GmbH
("ExxonMobil CE") to purchase a refinery in Ingolstadt, Germany. The
existing refineries have a combined crude oil volume processing
capacity, known as throughput capacity, of approximately 295,000 bpd,
and the Ingolstadt refinery has a throughput capacity of approximately
110,000 bpd.
