/KASE, January 21, 08/ - Kant JSC (Taraz), common shares of which are traded in Kazakhstan stock exchange's (KASE) securities list under "A" category, has presented to KASE an extract from shareholders registers system complied as of January 1, 2008.

The company's register holder is Registration service JSC (Almaty).

According to the extract as of January 1, 2008, a total number of KZ1C35690011 announced common shares of Kant JSC was 11,587,500, KZ1P35690513 issue preferred stocks - 3,862,500. Out of them, 6,890,031 common shares and 10,423 preferred stocks were offered, and 60 preferred shares were repurchased by the issuer. 3,065,617 common shares were in the nominal holding.

As of the mentioned date, the following entities held 5% and more from total number of Kant JSC's offered shares (based on Central depositary of securities JSC)

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Names,                             Number of        Stake among
places of residence            shares, units  offered shares, %
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D.N. Nazarbayeva (Kazakhstan)      3,036,367               44.0
BEATRICE ALLIANCE LTD
(United Kingdom)                   2,177,903               31.6
Omar Kassem (Lebanon)              1,646,611               23.9
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[2008-01-21]