CHANGE OF FINANCIAL YEAR END DATE - Hsin Chong

CHANGE OF FINANCIAL YEAR END DATE The Board announces that the financial year end date of the Company will be changed from 31 March to 31 December wit...

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CHANGE OF FINANCIAL YEAR END DATE The Board announces that the financial year end date of the Company will be changed from 31 March to 31 December with effect from the financial period ending 31 December 2008. The board of directors (the “Board”) of Hsin Chong Construction Group Ltd. (the “Company”, together with its subsidiaries, collectively the “Group”) announces that the financial year end date of the Company will be changed from 31 March to 31 December. The next published audited financial statements of the Company will cover a period of nine months from 1 April 2008 to 31 December 2008. In November 2007, the Mission Hills Group (“MHG”) completed the acquisition of a controlling interest in the Company, and the Company became a subsidiary of MHG. MHG currently has its subsidiaries (other than the Group) prepare financial statements for each year ended 31 December. The Board has decided to change the financial year end date of the Company from 31 March to 31 December primarily to ensure that it is coterminous with that of MHG, thereby facilitating the preparation of consolidated financial statements and saving audit costs accordingly. Following the change of the financial year end date, the Company will announce and publish its: (a)

audited final results for the nine months ending 31 December 2008 on or before 30 April 2009; and

(b)

unaudited interim results for the six months ending 30 June 2009 on or before 30 September 2009.

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The Board considers that there will not be any material adverse impact on the Group nor is there any other matter of significance that needs to be brought to the attention of the shareholders of the Company as a result of the change of the financial year end date of the Company.

By order of the Board Hsin Chong Construction Group Ltd. David CHU Shu-ho Chairman Hong Kong, 5 December 2008 Website: http://www.hsinchong.com As at the date of this announcement, the Board comprises Dr. David CHU Shu-ho as non-executive chairman; Mr. WONG Ying-wai (executive deputy chairman), Mr. CHAN Ka-kui (managing director), Mr. Barry John BUTTIFANT and Mr. Edmund LEUNG Kwong-ho as executive directors; Dr. Kenneth CHU Ting-kin as non-executive director; and Mr. Jeffrey LAM Kin-fung, Dr. Peter LAU Kwok-kuen and Hon. Abraham SHEK Lai-him as independent non-executive directors. *For identification purpose only

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