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"Fiat S.p.A." Registered Office: via Nizza 250, Turin Share capital ...

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present at the FIAT INDUSTRIAL shareholder meeting<br />

held the day before;<br />

he commented that, despite the awful year for Eu-<br />

rope, FIAT had closed 2012 with results which ex-<br />

ceeded both the objectives it had set at the be-<br />

ginning of the year and analysts’ forecasts;<br />

he noted that, from the figures officially ap-<br />

proved by the Board of Directors, it emerged that<br />

revenues were about 84 billion, representing an<br />

increase of about 24 billion compared to 2011, and<br />

that trading profit amounted to 3.9 billion;<br />

he added that he believed the Company had never<br />

achieved such a good result, even before the de-<br />

merger of FIAT INDUSTRIAL;<br />

he noted that the largest contribution came from<br />

the subsidiary CHRYSLER and from North America,<br />

which accounted for 52% of revenues;<br />

he pointed out that the European businesses penal-<br />

ized the Company with losses of approximately 700<br />

million;<br />

he acknowledged that the Board of Directors had<br />

chosen not to pay a dividend out of prudence and<br />

to maintain the current level of liquidity in<br />

light of the requests presented by VEBA, the trade<br />

union fund that still holds a 41.5% share in<br />

CHRYSLER;<br />

he stated that shareholders accepted the sacrifice<br />

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