10:39 MAGNUM INT'L<00305>-Announcement&Resumption of Trading (6) As at the date of this announcement, the Company has 615,024,175 Shares in issue and outstanding Options entitling the Optionholders to subscribe for an aggregate of 20,100,000 Shares at an exercise price of HK$0.111 per Share. Accordingly, apart from the Sale Shares, (i) 298,050,495 Shares (assuming all outstanding Options granted have not been exercised prior to the close of the Offers) will be subject to the Share Offer, and all outstanding Options (if not exercised) will be subject to the Option Offer; or (ii) 318,150,495 Shares (assuming all outstanding Options have been fully exercised prior to the close of the Offers) will be subject to the Share Offer. Save for the outstanding Options disclosed above, there are no outstanding warrants, options, derivatives or securities convertible into Shares as at the date of this announcement. Principal terms of the Offers Upon S&P Completion, Celestial Capital, on behalf of Unichina, will make mandatory unconditional cash offers for all the issued Shares (other than those already owned or agreed to be acquired by Unichina and parties acting in concert with it) and all the outstanding Options on the following basis: The Share Offer for each Share HK$0.04735 in cash The Option Offer for each outstanding Option to acquire one Share HK$0.001 in cash Unichina is required under the Takeovers Code to make a comparable offer for all the outstanding Options as part of the Offers. Unichina offers to pay the Optionholders in cash on the basis set out above in respect of every Option in consideration of the surrender by the Optionholders of all their rights in respect of such Options. The Optionholders have not given any undertaking to accept or not to accept the Option Offer. According to the share option scheme adopted by the Company on 11 June 2002, the Options shall lapse automatically (to the extent not already exercised) on the date on which the Option Offer closes. The Sale and Purchase Agreement is conditional upon the fulfillment of certain conditions and the Offers will only be made in the event of the occurrence of S&P Completion. Investors are therefore advised to exercise caution in dealing in the Shares. Comparison of value The offer price of HK$0.04735 per Share under the Share Offer is approximately the same as the price agreed to be paid by Unichina to MGL for each Sale Share under the Sale and Purchase Agreement and represents: (a) a discount of approximately 56.2% to the closing price of HK$0.108 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange on 7 February 2005, being the last full trading day prior to the suspension of the trading in the Shares at 9:30 a.m. on 8 February 2005; (b) a discount of approximately 42.6% to the average closing price of HK$0.0825 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange for the last ten consecutive full trading days prior to the suspension of the trading in the Shares at 9:30 a.m. on 8 February 2005; and (c) a discount of approximately 40.4% to the average closing price of HK$0.0795 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange for the last 30 consecutive full trading days prior to the suspension of the trading in the Shares at 9:30 a.m. on 8 February 2005. Based on the Company's interim report for the six months ended 30 June 2004, the unaudited consolidated net liabilities of the Company as at 30 June 2004 were approximately HK$45,150,000, which were equivalent to approximately HK$0.0734 per Share (based on 615,024,175 Shares then in issue). The option offer price under the Option Offer is equivalent to the nominal value of each Share upon Capital Reduction Completion.