09:02 HUA YI COPPER<00559> - Results Announcement (1) Hua Yi Copper Holdings Limited announced on 17/03/2005: (stock code: 00559 ) Year end date: 30/06/2005 Currency: HKD Auditors' Report: N/A Interim report reviewed by: Both Audit Committee and Auditors (Unaudited ) (Unaudited ) Last Current Corresponding Period Period from 01/01/2004 from 01/01/2003 to 31/12/2004 to 31/12/2003 Note ('000 ) ('000 ) Turnover : 931,564 535,666 Profit/(Loss) from Operations : 41,324 17,671 Finance cost : (14,922) (6,506) Share of Profit/(Loss) of Associates : N/A N/A Share of Profit/(Loss) of Jointly Controlled Entities : N/A N/A Profit/(Loss) after Tax & MI : 26,044 7,244 % Change over Last Period : +259.5 % EPS/(LPS)-Basic (in dollars) 5 : 0.0578 0.0181 -Diluted (in dollars) : N/A N/A Extraordinary (ETD) Gain/(Loss) : N/A N/A Profit/(Loss) after ETD Items : 26,044 7,244 2nd Interim Dividend : Nil N/A per Share (Specify if with other : N/A N/A options) B/C Dates for 2nd Interim Dividend : N/A Payable Date : N/A B/C Dates for (-) General Meeting : N/A Other Distribution for : N/A Current Period B/C Dates for Other Distribution : N/A Remarks: 1. GENERAL The Company is incorporated in Bermuda as an exempted company with limited liability and its shares are listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Stock Exchange"). The directors consider Solartech International Holdings Limited ("Solartech"), also incorporated in Bermuda as an exempted company with limited liability and its shares being listed on the Stock Exchange, to be its ultimate holding company. Following the completion of the reverse acquisition as detailed in note 2, to reflect the change in control and management of the Company and to provide for co-terminous accounting years throughout the group companies of Solartech, the name of the Company has been changed to Hua Yi Copper Holdings Limited and the financial year end date of the Company changed from 31 December to 30 June. As a result, the condensed financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries (the "Group") for the current period covered the 12 month period ended 31 December 2004 and have been prepared in accordance with Statement of Standard Accounting Practice ("SSAP") 25 "Interim Financial Reporting" issued by the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants ("HKICPA") and with the applicable disclosure requirements of Appendix 16 to the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. 2. BASIS OF PREPARATION On 25 March 2004, the Company and Solartech entered into an acquisition agreement (the "Agreement"). Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company agreed to issue and allot 8,000,000,000 new ordinary shares of par value HK$0.01 each of the Company (the "New Shares") to Solartech to acquire Solartech's interests in certain companies and other plant and machinery and land and buildings engaging in the business of manufacture and trading of copper rods and related products (the "Copper Group").