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Relations with shareholders<br />
The Company maintains a dialogue with major shareholders and holds meetings following the announcement of<br />
the annual and interim results with institutional shareholders.A corporate website is maintained containing a wide<br />
range of information of interest to investors at www.mandarinoriental.com.<br />
The 2006 Annual General Meeting will be held on 14th June 2006.The full text of the resolutions and explanatory<br />
notes in respect of the meeting are contained in the Notice of Meeting which accompanies this report.<br />
Securities purchase arrangements<br />
At the Annual General Meeting held on 4th May 2005, shareholders renewed the approval of a general mandate<br />
authorizing the Directors to effect purchases by the Company or its subsidiaries of the Company’s own ordinary<br />
shares of less than 15% in aggregate of its issued share capital.<br />
On 30th December 2005, the Company repurchased and cancelled 2,192,000 ordinary shares representing 0.2%<br />
of the Company’s issued ordinary share capital for an aggregate consideration of US$2.3 million from <strong>Mandarin</strong><br />
<strong>Oriental</strong> Trustees <strong>Limited</strong>, a subsidiary and the trustee of the Company’s Senior Executive Share Incentive Schemes.<br />
The repurchase related to options previously granted under the Company’s Senior Executive Share Incentive<br />
Schemes which had ceased to be exercisable and was carried out in accordance with the Schemes’ rules at the<br />
respective issue prices.<br />
Arrangements under which shareholders have agreed to waive dividends<br />
<strong>Mandarin</strong> <strong>Oriental</strong> Trustees <strong>Limited</strong> has undertaken to waive the recommended final dividend for 2005 in respect of<br />
the ordinary shares in which it is interested as trustee of the Company’s Senior Executive Share Incentive Schemes.<br />
Related party transactions<br />
Details of transactions with related parties entered into by the Company during the course of the year are included<br />
in note 30 to the financial statements on pages 68 and 69.There were no transactions entered into by the Company<br />
during the course of the year to which the related party transaction rules of the UK Listing Authority apply.<br />
ANNUAL REPORT 2005 79