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directors’report cont’dSIGNIFICANT EVENTS DURING THE FINANCIAL YEAR cont’dcAcquisition of Unipamol Malaysia Sdn Bhd and Pamol Plantations Sdn Bhd cont’dThe acquisition was completed on 17 January 2003. The purchase consideration has been revised from RM567million to RM555 million as mutually agreed between Palmco and the vendors.The acquisition has been part financed by a term loan of RM350 million. The term loan is secured by a pledge overthe shares in Unipamol and PPSB.dProposed Acquisition of Interest in Oil Palm Estates and Palm Oil Mill in SabahOn 19 March 2003, the Company had entered into several conditional sale and purchase agreements with severalvendors to acquire the entire equity interest in the following companies for a total consideration of RM607.7 million:iiiiiiivvB. A. Plantations Sdn BhdMayvin (Sabah) Sdn BhdPine Capital Sdn BhdRight Purpose Sdn BhdMayvin Incorporated Sdn BhdThe above companies are principally involved in oil palm plantation business with a total of 21,722 hectares of oil palm estatesand a palm oil mill in Sabah. The oil palm estates are located adjacent or within the vicinity of oil palm estates of the <strong>Group</strong>.The proposed acquisition has been approved by the Securities Commission (“SC”) on 25 August 2003 with a revision in thepurchase consideration from RM607.7 million to RM535.6 million to be satisfied by the issuance of 72,105,305 newordinary shares of RM0.50 each at RM5.20 per share and RM160.7 million by cash. The approval of the Foreign InvestmentCommittee (“FIC”) has also been obtained vide the same SC’s letter in accordance with the SC regulations, applicable to theproposed acquisition.The Directors and/or major shareholders of the Company who are interested or deemed to be interested in theproposed acquisition are as follows:iiiiiiivvTan Sri Dato’ Lee Shin ChengDato’ Lee Yeow ChorLee Cheng LeangPuan Sri Datin Hoong May KuanProgressive Holdings Sdn BhdThe proposed acquisition is still pending approvals from the followings:<strong>IOI</strong> Corporation BerhadAnnual Report 2003126iiishareholders of the Company at an extraordinary general meeting to be convened in which interestedshareholders and persons connected shall abstain from voting;Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange for the listing of and quotation for the new shares be issued.The full details of the proposed acquisition and the approvals by the SC and the FIC have been announced by theCompany on 20 March 2003 and 2 September 2003 respectively.

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