Samsonite Group S.A. — Share Issue/Capital Change 2013

Jan 8, 2013

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Samsonite

SAMSONITE INTERNATIONAL S.A.

新秀麗國際有限公司*

13-15 Avenue de la Liberté, L-1931 Luxembourg

R.C.S. LUXEMBOURG: B 159469

(Incorporated in Luxembourg with limited liability)

(Stock code: 1910)

ANNOUNCEMENT GRANT OF SHARE OPTIONS

This announcement is made pursuant to Rule 17.06A of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Listing Rules").

The Board of Directors (the "Board") of Samsonite International S.A. (the "Company") announces that on January 8, 2013, the Company granted share options (the "Options") to certain Directors and employees of the Company and its subsidiaries (the "Grantees") pursuant to the Company's Share Award Scheme which was adopted on September 14, 2012, subject to acceptance by the Grantees. The Options entitle the Grantees to subscribe for a total of 15,532,227 new shares with a nominal value of US$0.01 each (the "Shares") in the capital of the Company.

Details of the Options granted are set out below:

Date of grant : January 8, 2013

Number of Shares issuable under Options granted : 15,532,227

Exercise price of Options granted : HK$17.36

Closing price of the Shares on the date of grant : HK$17.36

Validity period of the Options : 10 years from the date of grant and the Options will lapse on January 8, 2023

Vesting dates of the Options : The Options will vest in respect of 25% of the underlying Shares on each of January 8, 2014, January 8, 2015, January 8, 2016 and January 8, 2017

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Of the Options granted as referred to above, Options with respect to a total of 3,991,081 Shares were granted to three Executive Directors of the Company, details of which are set out below:

Name	Position(s) in the Company	Number of Shares issuable under Options granted
Timothy Charles Parker	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer	2,368,749
Ramesh Dungarmal Tainwala	Executive Director and President, Asia-Pacific and Middle East	843,208
Kyle Francis Gendreau	Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer	779,124

Pursuant to Rule 17.04(1) of the Listing Rules, the grant of the Options to each of the Executive Directors of the Company has been approved by the Independent Non-executive Directors of the Company.

Save as disclosed above, none of the Grantees is a director, chief executive or substantial shareholder of the Company, or any of their respective associates (as defined in the Listing Rules).

By Order of the Board
SAMSONITE INTERNATIONAL S.A.
TIMOTHY CHARLES PARKER
Chairman

Hong Kong, January 8, 2013

As of the date of this announcement, the Executive Directors are Timothy Charles Parker, Kyle Francis Gendreau and Ramesh Dungarmal Tainwala, the Non-Executive Directors are Nicholas James Clarry, Bruce Hardy McLain (Hardy) and Keith Hamill and the Independent Non-Executive Directors are Paul Kenneth Etchells, Miguel Kai Kwun Ko and Ying Yeh.

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