Visa and Citystars announce winners of annual shopping festival in Egypt

Visa and Citystars Present Prizes to Lucky Shoppers

Cairo, EGYPT - April 11, 2011 - Visa and Citystars, Egypt's largest retail shopping centre, announced today the winners of this year's annual shopping festival 'Around Citystars in 60 Day's' in Atrium C of Citystars shopping centre. Five lucky winners were each presented with $10,000 from Visa and one lucky shopper was awarded the festival's grand prize; a brand new Jeep Wrangler Unlimited offered by Citystars.

Ms. Naglaa Abd Allah Ameen, the lucky winner of the Jeep Wrangler Unlimited and the five winners of Visa's cash prize of USD10,000: Bassam Youssry Ibrahim, Haytham Aly Mohamed, Maged Saad Fahmy, Mona Ibrahim Ibrahim, and Tarek Kassem Mohamed were invited to the stage to claim their prizes and take memorable photos with Citystars and Visa teams.

"Visa would like to congratulate the winners of this year's shopping festival and thank Citystars for hosting this campaign," said Tarek Elhousseiny, General Manager of Visa International North and West Africa. "Visa sees this campaign not only as a great way to showcase the convenience, security and reliability of using Visa payment cards but also as an opportunity to reward shoppers for their role in helping to drive digital currency among some of the leading merchants in Egypt."

From December 18, 2010 until March 2011, shoppers who spent EGP 250 cumulatively or at one time with their Visa or Visa Electron cards at any Citystars outlet*, were given a coupon to enter the draw to win one of five cash prizes of $10,000**. Those who spent EGP 250 with their Visa cards or any other payment method at any Citystars outlet* were given a coupon for a chance to win the Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. Shoppers had to present their sales receipts and coupons at one of the shopping centre information desks to be part of the draw.

"This year, we have witnessed exceptional demand from the shoppers and excellent participation in our shopping festival, thanks to our loyal customers and Visa as our valued partner," said Elhamy El Kerdany, Asset General Manager Co. S.A.E. "We're looking forward to offering more fun and exciting shopping and entertainment opportunities for shoppers in the future in order to showcase Citystars as a premier shopping and entertainment destination."

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*Excluding cinema, mobile bill payments, Spinneys (non electronics) and banks.

Visa Promotion is sponsored by Visa.

**No payments other than Visa card payments are eligible for entry into the Visa Exclusive Promotion.

About Visa
Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories to fast, secure and reliable digital currency. Underpinning digital currency is one of the world's most advanced processing networks--VisaNet--that is capable of handling more than 20,000 transactions a second, with fraud protection for consumers and guaranteed payment for merchants. Visa is not a bank and does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa's innovations, however, enable its financial institution customers to offer consumers more choices: pay now with debit, ahead of time with prepaid or later with credit products. For more information, visit www.corporate.visa.com..