SET Announcements

1600 /012/ 2004 January 26, 2004 Subject : Close the Subscription of BCP's Depository Receipt for Public Investors Attention : President of The Stock Exchange of Thailand and The Stock Exchange of Thailand As BCP has offered depository receipt (DR) via Siam DR to public investors amounting 37.59 million shares (increase from 34.65 million shares), which will be able to subscribe at Head Quarter and every branches of Siam City Bank during 26th - 27th January 2004 at the hours of 8.30 a.m. - 9.30 p.m. However, the process of subscription will be closed, if the volumes of subscription on 26th January 2004 after 10.30 a.m. exceed 2 times of the allotted shares The Company would like to inform that at 10.30 a.m. on 26th January 2004 the subscription volumes of BCP's DR for the public investor portion already exceeded the allotted volumes by 7.7 times. Therefore, the Company's lead underwriter would close the subscription as informed earlier. The lead underwriter will send the list of subscribers to the SET for random. In addition, the investors who subscribe the BCP's DR can check the result of random at www.settrade.com or www.scis.co.th or at call center 02-229-2222 since 27th January 2004 onwards. Please be informed accordingly. Yours sincerely, (Watcharapong Saisuk) Assistant Vice President Corporate Planning Office Corporate Planning Office Tel: 0-2335-4583