OREANDA-NEWS. November 21, 2012. Group Performance Highlights:

• Tata Steel Group's profit after tax (after minority interest and share of profit of associates) for the first half of the financial year 2012-13 (H1 FY'13) was '234 crores (USD 44 million) compared to the profit of '5,559 crores (USD 1.05 billion) in the first half of the previous year (H1 FY'12). The H1 FY'12 profits included one-off profits of '3,362 crores (USD 636 million) on sale of investments and '685 crores (USD 130 million) from the TCP arbitration settlement. The Group recorded a loss of '364 crores (USD 69 million) in Q2 FY'13 compared to the profit of '598 crores (USD 113 million) in Q1 FY'13 and profit of '212 crores (USD 40 million) in Q2 FY'12.

• Group EBITDA in H1 FY'13 was '6,034 crores (USD 1.14 billion) compared to '8,092 crores (USD 1.53 billion) in H1 FY'12. EBITDA in Q2 FY'13 was '2,453 crores (USD 464 million) compared to '3,581 crores (USD 677 million) in Q1 FY'13 and '3,021 crores (USD 572 million) in Q2 FY'12.

• Group consolidated turnover of '67,954 crores (USD 12.86 billion) in H1 FY'13 was up by 3.3% from '65,798 crores (USD 12.45 billion) in H1 FY'12. Q2 FY'13 turnover was '34,133 crores (USD 6.46 billion), up by 0.9% from '33,821 crores (USD 6.4 billion) in Q1 FY'13 and up by 4.1 % from '32,798 crores (USD 6.21 billion) in Q2 FY'12.

• The Group's steel deliveries in H1 FY'13 declined by 3.5% to 11.74 million tonnes compared to 12.17 million tonnes in H1 FY'12. Deliveries in Q2 FY'13 increased by 6.9% to 6.07 million tonnes versus 5.68 million tonnes in Q1 FY'13 but were down by 0.8% from 6.11 million tonnes in Q2 FY'12.

• The Indian operations performed steadily with H1 FY'13 turnover of '18,059 crores (USD 3.42 billion) and EBITDA of '5,459 crores (USD 1.03 billion). Q2 FY'13 EBITDA was '2,669 crores (USD 505 million) and deliveries increased to 1.73 million tonnes.

• The European operations suffered from the market slowdown and lower steel prices. H1 FY'13 turnover was '40,720 crores (USD 7.7 billion) and EBITDA was '580 crores (USD 110

million). Q2 FY'13 EBITDA was a loss of '40 crores (USD 8 million) with deliveries of 3.42 million tonnes.

• Net debt at the end of September 2012 increased to '55,167 crores (USD 10.44 billion) compared to '47,657 crores (USD 9.02 billion) at the end of March 2012.

Financial Performance Analysis: Consolidated financial results summary (under Indian GAAP) for the half year and second quarter ended 30 September 2012

All figures in USD million, unless specified

H1 FY'13

H1 FY'12

HIGHLIGHTS

Q2 FY'13

Q1 FY'13

Q2 FY'12

11.74

12.17

Steel Deliveries (Mn tons)

6.07

5.68

6.12

12,857

12,449

Turnover

6,458

6,399

6,205

1,142

1,531

EBITDA

464

677

572

8.9%

12.3%

EBITDA Margin (%)

7.2%

10.6%

9.2%

500

428

Depreciation

253

247

210

310

304

Net Finance Charges

163

147

150

315

1,412

Profit before Taxes (after Exceptional Items)

47

268

198

2.4%

11.3%

PBT Margin (%)

0.7%

4.2%

3.2%

44

1,052

Profit after Taxes, Minority Interest and Share of Associates

-69

113

40

0.3%

8.4%

PAT Margin (%)

-1.1%

1.8%

0.6%

For the purposes of converting all financial numbers to USD for all comparable periods, a USD /' exchange rate of 52.855 has been used throughout this document.

Executive Comment

Tata Steel Managing Director Mr HM Nerurkar said: "The Indian operations continued their steady performance against a backdrop of lacklustre demand in the market place and increasing imports. Ramp-up of the newly expanded capacity at Jamshedpur resulted in increased deliveries in a soft market, primarily because of our focus on the distribution business and customer orientation. The slew of policy announcements by the Government to promote growth augur well for the Indian economy. We are hopeful that these initiatives will ultimately result in increased Government

spending, driving steel demand in the future. The South East Asian operations have responded well to the tough market conditions and are expected to perform better in the coming quarters."

Dr Karl-Ulrich Kohler, MD & CEO of Tata Steel in Europe, said: "European steel demand and prices have weakened since the spring and this took its toll on our financial performance. Our response has been to accelerate our efforts to reduce those costs that we can influence. We are also bringing forward our new product development schedule and other elements of our market differentiation strategy. We expect the benefits of these actions, aimed at meeting our long-term goal of becoming an 'all-weather' business, to be reflected in future performance."

Corporate Development

The Board of Directors of the Company has appointed Mr. Cyrus P. Mistry as the Deputy Chairman of the Company with immediate effect and Chairman Designate to take over as Chairman from Mr. Ratan N. Tata on his retirement in December 2012.

Further, the Board of Directors has also appointed Mr. Koushik Chatterjee, Group Chief Financial Officer of the Company, as a Whole time Director on the Board of the Company, with immediate effect.