SOL GROUP

PRESS RELEASE NINE MONTHS 2016 SALES The Board of Directors has examined the Consolidated Net Sales of Nine Months 2016 Consolidated net sales € 522.2 ml, (+4.2% vs 3Q 2015, € 501.3 ml)

These are the highlights of the sales of the first nine months of 2016 examined earlier today by the Board of Directors of SOL S.p.A., a listed company on the Italian Stock Exchange that acts as holding company to a multinational group with more than 3,100 employees, involved in the businesses of technical gases and home-care assistance, operating in Europe, in Turkey, in Morocco, in India and in Brasil.

In an uncertain economic framework, in the nine months of 2016 Sol Group achieved a growth of

4.2 % in sales volume compared with the same period of 2015.

The positive result is due to the sales abroad, amounting to € 275.3 with an increase of 6.3%, and also to the improvement of the sales in Italy, equal to € 246.9, where the growth was of 1.9%.

With reference to the two businesses of the Group, the sales of the Technical Gases Division were € 255.6 with a growth of 2.1%, whereas the sales of the Home Care Division, in which the Group operates through VIVISOL, were € 266.6 and marked a growth of 6.2%.

"We consider in a positive way the results achieved in the first nine months of 2016" affirmed Marco Annoni, Vice-President of SOL S.p.A. "which confirm the capability of SOL group to grow in a difficult economic framework".

"In the year 2016", concluded SOL Chairman Aldo Fumagalli Romario, "our target is to pursue the growth of sales, continuing the investment program sustaining the development, the diversification and the innovation".

Pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 154-bis of the Unified Financial Act of February 24, 1998, the manager responsible for preparing the financial reports Marco Filippi declares that the accounting information contained in this press release corresponds to the results documented in the books, accounting and other records.

Monza, November 11, 2016

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