Notification of the adjustment of ESOP
22 สิงหาคม 2551
-Translation-
AIS-CP 101/2008
August 22, 2008
Subject: Notification of the adjustment to exercise price and exercise ratio
of ESOP Warrants Grant III, IV, and V
To The President
The Stock Exchange of Thailand
According to the Board of Directors' Meeting of Advanced Info Service Public
Company Limited (the "Company") No. 5/2008 held on August 13, 2008 passed a
resolution to approve an interim dividend for the first half of 2008 at the
rate of Baht 3.00 per share, approximately totaling Baht 8,885 million to the
Company's shareholders.
Upon the resolution, the Company has announced to distribute the dividends in
excess of 50% of the net profit of its consolidated financial statement. 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 III, IV, and V 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 III Before adjustment After adjustment
Exercise price (Baht per share) 80.574 79.646
Exercise ratio (warrant : common shares) 1:1.13920 1 : 1.15247
Number of shares to be allotted (shares) 5,314,173 5,369,012*
ESOP Grant IV Before adjustment After adjustment
Exercise price (Baht per share) 94.820 93.728
Exercise ratio (warrant : common shares) 1 : 1.12490 1 : 1.13801
Number of shares to be allotted (shares) 10,391,434 10,482,324*
ESOP Grant V Before adjustment After adjustment
Exercise price (Baht per share) 83.923 82.956
Exercise ratio (warrant : common shares) 1 : 1.08989 1 : 1.10259
Number of shares to be allotted (shares) 9,931,349 10,025,300*
Number of additional shares to be Total 239,679 shares
allotted after adjustment of exercise
price and exercise ratio of ESOP
* The Company will allot the additional shares to reserve for the new exercise
ratio of ESOP in the AGM 2009.
The new exercise price and new exercise ratio shall be effective immediately
on August 22, 2008 or the first day of XD sign posting onwards. The Company
will allot the additional shares to reserve for the new exercise ratio of ESOP
Grant III, IV, and V in the 2009 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.
Yours faithfully,
-Signed-
Mr. Pong-amorn Nimpoonsawat
Chief Finance Officer
Advanced Info Services Plc.
Compliance Department
Tel. 02-687-4278, 02-615-3277