Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company S.A. (Coca-Cola Hellenic, the Company) announced today that Mr. Samir Toubassy has retired from the Company's Board of Directors. The Company expressed its gratitude to Mr. Toubassy for his services as a non-executive member of Coca-Cola Hellenic's Board of Directors for the past nine years and as a member of the Group's Audit Committee since 2001. A separate announcement will be made on the appointment of a new non-executive member to Coca-Cola Hellenic's Board of Directors in due course.

The Board of Directors has nominated its member Mr. Antonio D'Amato to succeed Mr. Toubassy as a member of the Audit Committee of Coca-Cola Hellenic. Mr. D'Amato started his career in 1979 with the Finseda Group, a leading European company in the production of food packaging. He was employed in various capacities and became president of the Finseda Group in 1991. Since 1996, Mr. D'Amato has been a member of the board of directors of Confindustria, the Confederation of Italian Industry. Mr. D'Amato has served on the Board of Directors of Coca-Cola Hellenic as a non-executive director since 2002.