SINCE JULY 12 TILL JULY 16 SPECIALIZED TRADES ON PRIMARY ADDITIONAL FLOATATION OF THE 1ST ISSUE BONDS OF FOOD CONTRACT CORPORATION JSC (KAZAKHSTAN) WILL BE HELD AT KASE

09.07.04 18:42
/KASE, July 9, 04/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) notifies that since June 12 till July 16 of 2004 specialized trades on primary additional floatation of bonds of Food contract corporation JSC (Astana) of the first issue (KZ2CKY05B091; official "A" listing, PRKRb1; KZT10,000, KZT3.0 bn.; May 17, 04 - May 17, 09; annual coupon, 8.0% APR, actual/actual) will be continued at KASE. The issuer plans to offer on each day 30,000 bonds. The specialized trades will be held in KASE's trade system from 11.30 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. of Almaty time (ALT). The issuer will decide on cut off point before 3:00 p.m. of Almaty time on the day of trades holding. Bonds purchased at the trades are to be paid by purchasers before 4:00 p.m. on deals making day (T+0). Bonds' "clean" price (without accumulated interest) expressed as percentage to security's face value with the accuracy of four decimal figures is to be shown in bid as the price. Total face value of the securities in Kazakhstan tenge divisible by one bond's face value is to be shown in bid as the number of financial instruments. The volume of the bid is determined as the product of number of financial instruments and the price taking into account accumulated interest divided by 100%. When calculating accumulated interest, investor has to include days actually passed at payment date. Method of bids satisfaction for purchase is at stated price. The issuer will satisfy all, or only part of, bids, prices in which will be higher or equal to cut- off price. In the latter case bids submitted to KASE's trade system earlier will be preferred. Bids can be submitted only by KASE's members of "Р" category (the right to participate in trades in corporate securities, which have been included into the stock exchange's official list). Investors may submit their bids through these juridical persons. Full list of KASE's members of "Р" category has been published in the stock exchange's web-site at http://www.kase.kz/kasemembers/. The floated bonds may be purchased at the expense of Kazakhstan accumulative pension funds' assets as included in KASE's official "А" listing category. Food contracted corporation JSC has already offered at KASE's specialized trades 82,298 bonds for a total of 830,985,785.44 (27.43% of the registered issue volume). All bonds have been sold with the yield of 8.00% APR to maturity for purchaser. [2004-07-09]