Justice department of Astana registered changes in the charter of Food contract corporation JSC (Kazakhstan) and changes in the charter of subsidiary Asyl Biday LLP

/KASE, January 7, 05/ - Food contract corporation JSC (Astana), whose bonds are traded in Kazakhstan stock exchange's (KASE) official "A" listing category, has informed KASE that on November 26 of 2004 Justice department of Astana city registered changes in the corporation's charter. The changes are concerned with: - increasing of the corporation's authorized capital to KZT7,491,583,000, which has been divided into 7,491,583 common shares with the face value of KZT1,000; - enlargement of an article in the corporation's charter "Purposes and types of company's activity" with the paragraph "make separate types of banking operations including giving of loans"; - correction of the list of questions concerning the exceptional competence of the corporation's board of directors (confirmation of business-plan, estimate of company's expenses, and also confirmation of the report about fulfillment of the estimate of administrative expenses for previous and planned period of activity, have been excluded from the list). Besides, Food contract corporation JSC says on October 22 of 2004 Justice department of Astana city registered changes in the charter of corporation's subsidiary Asyl Biday LLP (Astana). As was informed before, in accordance with these changes Asyl Biday LLP has been renamed into Expert agrarian company LLP and has changed address, which is now: 39/1, Moskovskaya str., 473000, Astana, Kazakhstan. Primary activities of Expert agrarian company LLP: giving guarantees to agricultural goods producers, who apply to Food contract corporation JSC for financing. Primary activities of Food contract corporation JSC - purchase, formation, registration, organization of storage, renewal, displacement, sale of state reserves of grain and products of its processing, and other functions determined by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. [2005-01-07]