Notice regarding the attainment of the bid threshold for the buy-back of ordinary shares in KD Holding d.d.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Rules of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange d.d. and the ZTVP-1 (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 56/99), KD d.d., Ljubljana, hereby issues the following announcement:

KD Group, financial company, d.d., Celovška 206, Ljubljana, as the offeror for the purchase of ordinary shares in KD Holding d.d., Ljubljana, hereby announces, pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 12 of the Takeovers Act and Article 66 of the Securities Market Act, that on 13 August2002, the minimum threshold set by the offeror as a condition for the success of the offer was reached (185,027 ordinary shares in KD Holding d.d. with the ticker symbol KDHR, which, together with the 231,210 KDHR shares already held by KD Group d.d. at the time of the offer’s announcement, represents 416,237 KDHR shares, or more than 45 per cent of the total issue of KDHR shares).
Up to and including 13 August 2002, the offer was accepted by shareholders holding a total of 248,895 ordinary shares in KD Holding d.d., representing 26.91% of all issued ordinary shares in KD Holding d.d. On the date of the buy-back offer, KD Group d.d. held 231,210 ordinary shares in KD Holding d.d., meaning that KD Group d.d. now holds a total of 480,105 ordinary shares, or 51.90 per cent of all ordinary shares in KD Holding d.d.
The buy-back offer was published on 31July 2002 in the newspaper Dnevnik and on the website of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange d.d. (SEOnet), and is valid from 1 August 2002 up to and including 29 August 2002.


KD Group d.d.
Management Board