Adjustment to exercise price and exercise ratio of ESOP
08 มีนาคม 2548
-Translation-
AIS-CP 024/2005
March 7, 2005
Subject: Notification of the adjustment to exercise price and exercise
ratio of ESOP Warrants Grant I, II and III
To: President
The Stock Exchange of Thailand
According to the Board of Directors' Meeting of Advanced Info Service Public
Company Limited (the "Company") No.2/2005 held on February 17, 2005 passed
a
resolution to approve the dividend payment for the second half of 2004 to
shareholders at the rate of 2.60 Baht per share, totaling 7,653.39 million
Baht to the shareholder of the company.
Upon the resolution, the Company has announced to distribute the dividends
in
excess of 50% of the net profit after income tax. This has affected on the
adjustment to exercise price and exercise ratio of warrants to purchase the
Company's ordinary shares, which were offered to directors and employees of
the Company (ESOP) Grant I, II and III as stated in Clause 2.6 (v) of the
Prospectus offering the ESOP Program of the Company. The ESOP warrant
holders
shall not be decreased their rights. The adjustment to exercise price and
exercise ratio of ESOP Warrants were shown as follow;
ESOP Grant I Before adjustment After adjustment
Exercise price (Baht per share) 47.147 46.780
Exercise ratio (warrant : common shares) 1 : 1.01751 1 : 1.02549
Number of shares to be allotted (shares) 5,447,889 5,567,692*
ESOP Grant II Before adjustment After adjustment
Exercise price (Baht per share) 42.634 42.302
Exercise ratio (warrant : common shares) 1 : 1.01751 1 : 1.02549
Number of shares to be allotted (shares) 5,992,746 6,134,583*
ESOP Grant III Before adjustment After adjustment
Exercise price (Baht per share) 91.348 90.637
Exercise ratio (warrant : common shares) 1 : 1.00484 1 : 1.01272
Number of shares to be allotted (shares) 8,999,500 9,113,973*
Number of additional shares to be allotted
after adjustment of exercise price and
exercise ratio of ESOP (shares) Total 376,113
* calculated from the remaining of unexercised warrants
The new exercise price and new exercise ratio shall be effective immediately
on March 7, 2005 or the first day of XD sign posting onwards. As a result,
provided that, the Company currently has sufficiently reserved shares for
the
exercise of ESOP warrants. The Company, therefore, will allot the additional
shares to reserve for the new exercise ratio of ESOP Grant I, II and III in
the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders for fiscal year 2005.
Please be informed accordingly.
Yours sincerely,
-Signed-
Mr. Pong-Amorn Nimpoonsawat
Chief Financial Officer
Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited