HATZIOANNOU HOLDINGS S.A. ANNOUNCES VIRGIN WARE OPENS NEW STORE IN THE UK

London, 05. 04. 2004 (PROTEXT/ots) - VIRGIN ware OPENS A NEWSTORE IN THE UK. Hatzioannou, the leading European group in thesecond skin manufacturing and value for money retailing,announced that its 100% UK subsidiary Virgin ware opened a newstore in Croydon, UK.

Virgin ware had opened another store in Guildford, UK onMarch 17th, reaching in total 14 stores in England. (Please seetable). OPENING DATE

STORES-LOCATIONJULY 2002

FOUBERTS-LONDONAPRIL 2003

READINGAUGUST 2003

BULL RING-BIRMINGHAMAUGUST 2003

FIGLEAVES (Online Store)SEPTEMBER 2003

TRAFFORD-MANCHESTEROCTOBER 2003

BRAINTREE-ESSEX (Stock House)NOVEMBER 2003

CHESTERDECEMBER 2003

PETERBOROUGHDECEMBER 2003

HATFIELD (Stock House)DECEMBER 2003

CRAWLEYJANUARY 2004

YORKFEBRUARY 2004

BROMLEYMARCH 2004

GUILDFORDMARCH 2004

CROYDON

Virgin ware will be consolidated to the group for the firsttime in 2004.

Hatzioannou shares are listed on the Athens Stock Exchange(Reuters: HADr.AT), (Bloomberg: HATZK GA) and also traded on theDeutsche Borse.

Hatzioannou's full year end results are available fordownload: http://www.rns- pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/6354w_hatzioannou-2004-3-17.pdf

This information is also available on Hatzioannou's websiteat www.hatzi.gr

ots Originaltext: Hatzioannou Holdings S.A. Im Internetrecherchierbar: http://www.presseportal.de

For further information, contact:

Nick Demos, IRO, Tel.: ++30 210 6387820, Email:nick.demos@hatzi.gr

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