ICA confirms payment of debt secured by OMA shares

MEXICO CITY, March 18, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Empresas ICA, S.AB. de C.V. (BMV:ICA) (NYSE:ICA), the largest infrastructure and construction company in Mexico, confirmed today the payment of a Ps. 600 million loan granted by Arrendadora Value, S.A., SOFOM ER by means of selling OMA B shares that had been pledged to secure the loan.  To date, 6,814,578 OMA B shares have been sold in order to pay the loan.

Such forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties and may differ materially from actual results or events due to important factors such as changes in general economic, business or political or other conditions in Mexico, Latin America or elsewhere, changes in capital markets in general that may affect policies or attitudes towards lending to Mexico or Mexican companies, changes in tax and other laws affecting ICA's businesses, increased costs, unanticipated increases in financing and other costs or the inability to obtain additional debt or equity financing on attractive terms and other factors set forth in ICA's most recent filing on Form 20-F and in any filing or submission ICA has made with the SEC subsequent to its most recent filing on Form 20-F. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to ICA on the date hereof, and ICA assumes no obligation to update such statements.

Empresas ICA, S.A.B. de C.V. is Mexico's largest infrastructure company. ICA carries out large-scale civil and industrial construction projects and operates a portfolio of long-term assets, including airports, toll roads, water systems, and real estate. Founded in 1947, lCA is listed on the Mexican and New York Stock exchanges. For more information, visit ir.ica.mx.

For more information, please contact:

Gabriela Orozco
gabriela.orozco@ica.mx

Christianne Ibánez
christianne.ibanez@ica.mx

relacion.inversionistas@ica.mx
+(5255) 5272 9991 x 3012

Pablo Garcia
Chief Financial Officer
pablo.garcia@ica.mx

In the US:
Daniel Wilson, Zemi Communications
+(1212) 689 9560
dbmwilson@zemi.com