LILLY (ELI) & COMPANY: Half-yearly Report

Company Lilly (Eli) & Co.

TIDM LEL

Headline Half-Yearly Report

Lilly (Eli) & Co.

24 January 2013

Eli Lilly and Company

Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended 30 June 2012

Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended 30 June 2011

Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended 30 June 2010

The Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended 30 June 2012, 30 June 2011 and 30 June 2010 have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http:// www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM. The Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q are also available on the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission website at http://www.sec.gov.

CONTACT:

Jamie E. Haney

Counsel - Corporate Securities and Assistant Secretary

(317) 277-3278

(317) 407-1288 (M)

haney_jamie_e@lilly.com

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