Imerys

Capital/Financing Update • Nov 19, 2013

Imerys successfully completes the issue of 7-year €300 million bonds

Imerys announces the successful placement of €300 million bonds maturing in November 2020, with an annual coupon of 2.5 %.

This offer, made under Imerys Euro Medium Term Note Programme, was very well received by a diversified investor base, having been more than 5 times oversubscribed.

This issue will allow Imerys to lengthen its debt average maturity and anticipate the refinancing of its next bonds maturity while benefiting from very favorable market conditions.

The settlement date is scheduled on November 26, 2013, date on which the notes will be admitted to trading on the regulated market of Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, ING and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities acted as co-lead managers for the offering.

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The world leader in mineral-based specialty solutions for industry, with €3.9 billion revenue and 16,000 employees in 2012, Imerys transforms a unique range of minerals to deliver essential functions (heat resistance, mechanical strength, conductivity, coverage, barrier effect, etc.) that are essential to its customers' products and manufacturing processes.

Whether mineral components, functional additives, process enablers or finished products, Imerys' solutions contribute to the quality of a great number of applications in consumer goods, industrial equipment or construction. Combining expertise, creativity and attentiveness to customers' needs, the Group's international teams constantly identify new applications and develop high value-added solutions under a determined approach to responsible development. These strengths enable Imerys to develop through a sound, profitable business model.

More comprehensive information about Imerys may be obtained from its website (www.imerys.com) under Regulated Information, particularly in its Registration Document filed with the Autorité des marchés financiers on March 21, 2013 under number D.13-0195 (also available from the Autorité des marchés financiers website, www.amf-france.org). Imerys draws the attention of investors to chapter 4, "Risk Factors", of its Registration Document.

Disclaimer

This press release is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell notes, or a solicitation of an offer to buy notes in any jurisdiction, and there shall not be any sale of these notes in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. The notes referred to herein may not be and will not be offered or sold to the public.

This press release may not be sent, published or distributed in any and all countries where such action would constitute a violation of the applicable laws or regulations.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell the notes of Imerys in the United States. The notes have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons except in certain transactions exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

No prospectus (including any amendment, supplement or replacement thereto) or any other offering material has been prepared in connection with the offering of the notes that has been approved by the Autorité des marchés

financiers or by the competent authority of another state that is a contracting party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and notified to the Autorité des marchés financiers; no notes have been offered or sold nor will be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, to the public in France; the prospectus or any other offering material relating to the notes have not been distributed or caused to be distributed and will not be distributed or caused to be distributed to the public in France; such offers, sales and distributions have been and shall only be made in France to persons licensed as providers of investment services relating to portfolio management for the account of third parties or to qualified investors (investisseurs qualifiés), as defined and in accordance with Articles L.411-1, L.411-2 and D.411-1 of the French Code monétaire et financier.

Analyst/Investor Relations:	Press Contacts:
Pascale Arnaud +33 (0)1 4955 6401	Pascale Arnaud +33 (0)1 4955 6401
finance@imerys.com	Raphaël Leclerc +33 (0)6 7316 8806

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