OREANDA-NEWS. January 13, 2012. OJSC Rosinter Restaurants Holding (Rosinter), the leading casual dining restaurants chain in Russia and CIS (RTS and MICEX ticker: ROST), announces its financial results for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 prepared in accordance with IFRS.

9 MONTHS 2011 HIGHLIGHTS

Consolidated Net Revenue increased by 7.2% vs. 9M 2010 to RUB 7,635 mln

Gross profit amounted to RUB 1,473 mln in 9M 2011, for a gross margin of 19.3% vs. 23.7% in 9M 2010

Operating losses amounted to RUB 174.7 mln in 9M 2011 vs. operating profit of RUB 463.8 mln in 9M 2010

EBITDA[1] amounted to RUB 137.9 mln in 9M 2011 vs. RUB 764.5 mln in 9M 2010

EBITDA before Impairment provisions amounted to RUB 342.7 mln in 9M 2011 vs. RUB 762.0 mln in 9M 2010

Net loss (including impairments) amounted to RUB 276.6 mln in 9M 2011 vs. Net profit of RUB 213.6 mln in 9M 2010

Net debt increased by 16.2% to RUB 1,331 mln with Net debt/EBITDA (12M Rolling) of 3.2x reflecting EBITDA contraction in 9M 2011

Hugh Carroll, acting President and CEO, commented:

"The first nine months of 2011 were challenging for Rosinter as we experienced a decline in financial performance, but at the same time operating trends were steadily improving and in the third quarter we have already delivered significant positive EBITDA margin improvements to 7.6% as compared to negative EBITDA figures in the first half of the year.

In the first three quarters of 2011 our consolidated revenue increased by 7.2% as compared to the same period of the prior year and reached 7,635 million rubles. Sales in comparable stores increased by 3.1% driven by 4.3% average check growth partially offset by a decline in traffic. Our new initiatives on labor productivity and supply chain resulted in gross profit margin improvement to 22% in third quarter as compared to 17.9% in the first half of 2011.