Wienerberger AG: Announcement In Accordance With § 82 Par. 9 Of The Austrian Stock Exchange Act In Connection With § 95 Par. 6 Of The Austrian Stock Corporation Act

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Report of the Managing Board and Supervisory Board of Wienerberger AG

The strategy of Wienerberger AG includes the implementation of stock option plans for management in order to systematically direct corporate policies toward the value of the Company and also strengthen the identification of managers with the Company. These value-based incentive systems are designed to improve management's focus on budgeting and goals as well as to strengthen joint responsibility and the identification of management with the interests of shareholders.

Therefore, the Managing Board will ask the Supervisory Board (Personnel and Nominating Committee) to approve a stock option plan for key managers in the Wienerberger Group for the 2008 Business Year. The Supervisory Board intends (Personnel and Nominating Committee) to grant stock options to the members of the Managing Board for the 2008 Business Year. The Supervisory Board (Personnel and Nominating Committee) is scheduled to approve the 2008 stock option plan for key managers and the granting of stock options to members of the Managing Board for 2008 on February 8, 2008.

The 2008 stock option plan for key managers and the 2008 stock option plan for the members of the Managing Board are based on the following terms:

Legal framework: Non-transferable options for shares of Wienerberger AG will be granted to eligible participants, whereby the legal right to the granting of additional options in future years will be excluded. The shares required for the options will be provided either from treasury stock purchased as part of a share buyback program or from authorized conditional capital.

Eligibility:

Level 1 Members of the Managing Board Level 2 Key managers of Wienerberger AG and key managers of subsidiaries with a direct influence on corporate policies and special responsibility as approved by the Managing Board

Number of options:

Level 1 Up to 63,000 options for the entire Managing Board Level 2a Up to 5,000 options for each key manager Level 2b Up to 3,000 options for each key manager Total level 2: up to 272,000 options

Option terms:

Granting of options: Options will be granted during the first four months of each year under the suspensive condition that profit after tax (before minority interest and after the deduction of expenses for hybrid bond(s) or similar financing instruments) reaches at least 95% of the targeted indicator for 2008.

Term of options: 5 years from the date of granting.

Exercise price: The average of all daily closing prices over a period of four weeks beginning on the date preliminary Group results are announced for the business year prior to the year in which the options were granted.

Exercise window: Within four weeks - after the eighth calendar day following the annual general meeting of Wienerberger AG for the past business year - after the date on which quarterly results are announced for the second and third quarters of the current business year.

Waiting period/earliest exercise date: The earliest possible exercise date is the first exercise window that appears two years after the options are granted.

Retention period: A retention period of two years applies to one-third of the shares purchased with the options.

Information on the stock options granted to management during the period from 2002 to 2007 is provided in the relevant annual reports.

For additional information contact: Karin Hofmann, Public Relations T +43(1)60192-463 | communication@wienerberger.com

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