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SIGNIFICANT EVENTS DURING THE FINANCIAL YEARaRequotation of Palmco Holdings BerhadOn 10 October 2002, the Company acquired 23,738,316 ordinary shares of RM1.00 each in Palmco Holdings Berhad("Palmco Shares") from Servitel Development Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Sime Darby Berhad (“Sime”) for a cashconsideration of RM109,196,253.60 or RM4.60 per share.During the previous financial year, the Company proposed the Capital Distribution and placement arrangements ofthe Palmco Shares which might otherwise be received under the Capital Distribution by shareholders of theCompany who were not deemed as public shareholders under the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange’s ListingRequirements ("Placement Arrangements"). The Capital Distribution and Placement Arrangements were completedon 31 October 2002.With the acquisition of Palmco Shares from Sime and the completion of Capital Distribution and PlacementArrangements, Palmco Shares were requoted on 8 November 2002.bAcquisition of the Entire Business of Loders CroklaanOn 31 August 2002, the Company entered into an agreement to acquire a 100% interest in Loders Croklaan B.V. andthe related businesses located in United States, Canada and Egypt (collectively called “Loders Croklaan”) fromUnilever <strong>Group</strong> for a total cash consideration of EUR217 million.Loders Croklaan is one of the leading global suppliers of specialty oils and fats to the food sector. It has a longstandingtradition of quality and innovation and has pioneered products and applications in its core snackingredients business. It is also in the development of the potentially high growth area of nutritional lipid andoperates a small special product unit trading in both food and animal feed ingredients.The acquisition was completed on 30 November 2002.cAcquisition of Unipamol Malaysia Sdn Bhd and Pamol Plantations Sdn BhdOn 2 December 2002, Palmco Holdings Berhad (“Palmco”) announced its proposed acquisition of the entire issuedand paid-up share capital of Unipamol Malaysia Sdn Bhd (“Unipamol”) and 49.99% of the issued and paid-up sharecapital of Pamol Plantations Sdn Bhd (“PPSB”) for a total cash consideration of RM567 million, subject toadjustments, from the wholly-owned subsidiaries of Unilever plc.The Unipamol group of companies and the PPSB group of companies (collectively called “Pamol <strong>Group</strong>”) areprincipally involved in oil palm plantation business with a total of 23,045 hectares of oil palm estates, of which8,148 hectares and 14,897 hectares are located in Kluang, Johor and Labuk, Sabah respectively. In addition, thePamol <strong>Group</strong> has two palm oil mills with annual processing capacity of 360,000 and 390,000 metric tonne in Johorand Sabah respectively.125<strong>IOI</strong> Corporation BerhadAnnual Report 2003

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