Throughout the years, Gorenje, d.d., has been encouraging all shareholders to actively exercise their rights by organised collection of proxies and in accordance with the Slovenian Corporate Governance Code recommendation is announcing that as of today, the company officers authorised to collect proxies i.e.

1. Mr. Franc Bobinac, President of the Management Board,
2. Mrs. Mirjana Dimc Perko,
3. Mr. Drago Bahun,
4. Mr. Franc Košec,.
5. Mr Uroš Marolt and
6. Mr. Branko Apat, all members of the Management Board;
7. Mr. Peter Kobal, Chairman of the Gorenje, d.d., Employee Council and Employee Representative of the Gorenje, d.d., Supervisory Board, and
8. Mr. Emil Krušič, President of the Gorenje, d.d., SKEI Union,

have started collecting proxies for the shareholders to exercise their voting rights at the 13th General Meeting of Gorenje, d.d., scheduled for 18 June 2009.

By issuing this invitation for granting proxies the authorised company officers want to encourage the shareholders to exercise their decision-making rights at the General Meeting as well as notify the shareholders of the proposed decisions of the General Meeting.