isissuing an additional corporate bond with a nominal value of €500.0 million,after offering itsfirst corporate bond, for the same amount, in November 2015.

Theunsecured, fixed-rate corporate bond has a maturity of around seven years,according to an April 5 news release.

Alstrianoted that Standard & Poor's is expected to give a preliminary rating ofBBB to the bond, which will be admitted to trading on the regulated market ofthe Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

J.P.Morgan, Société Générale CIB, UBS Investment Bank and UniCredit Bank AG areacting as joint bookrunners.