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ASIA PACIFIC BREW ERIES LTD

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193100007K

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ASIA PACIFIC BREW ERIES LTD

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ASIA PACIFIC BREW ERIES LTD

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Anthony Cheong Fook Seng

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Company Secretary

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17-Jan-2013 19:25:19

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00101

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COMPULSORY ACQUISITION BY HEINEKEN INTERNATIONAL B.V.

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ASIA PACIFIC BREWERIES LIMITED

(Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Company Registration No.: 193100007K)

COMPULSORY ACQUISITION BY HEINEKEN INTERNATIONAL B.V. 1. DESPATCH OF COMPULSORY ACQUISITION NOTICE

The Company refers to the announcement (the "Heineken Announcement") issued today by Credit Suisse (Singapore) Limited and Citigroup Global Markets Singapore Pte. Ltd. (the "Financial Advisers"), for and on behalf of Heineken International B.V. (the "Offeror") in connection with, inter alia, the acquisition of 10,983,571 issued ordinary shares (the "Shares") in the capital of the Company by the Offeror and its related corporations which represent more than 90 per cent. of the Offer Shares (as defined in the Heineken Announcement) as of
5.30 p.m. on 15 January 2013.
According to the Heineken Announcement, the Offeror is entitled, and intends, to exercise its right of compulsory acquisition under Section 215(1) of the Companies Act, Chapter 50 of Singapore and the Financial Advisers have today, for and on behalf of the Offeror, despatched the Letter (as defined in the Heineken Announcement) and Form 57 (as defined in the Heineken Announcement) to the Dissenting Shareholders (as defined in the Heineken Announcement).
Based on the Letter, the Offeror will exercise its right of compulsory acquisition to acquire all the Shares held by the Dissenting Shareholders on 18 February 2013, being the day immediately following the expiration of one month from the date of Form 57, subject to and on the terms set out in Form 57.
As previously stated by the Company in the circular to shareholders dated 13 December 2012 (the "Circular"), the Company would be delisted from the Main Board of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited on the earlier of the completion of the Section 215(1) Process (as defined in the Circular) and the completion of the Section 215(3) Process (as defined in the Circular). In light of the indicative date by which the Offeror will exercise its right of compulsory acquisition to acquire all the Shares held by the Dissenting Shareholders, being 18 February 2013, it is expected that the Section 215(1) Process will complete earlier than the Section 215(3) Process and the Company will be delisted thereafter.
The Company will in due course make an announcement providing the definitive date of the delisting of the Company.

2. DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT

The Directors of the Company (including any who may have delegated detailed supervision of this Announcement) have taken all reasonable care to ensure that the facts stated and all opinions expressed in this Announcement are fair and accurate and that no material facts have been omitted from this Announcement, and the Directors jointly and severally accept full responsibility accordingly.
Where any information has been extracted or reproduced from published or otherwise publicly available sources (including, without limitation, the Heineken Announcement), the sole responsibility of the Directors has been to ensure through reasonable enquiries that such information is accurately extracted from such sources or, as the case may be, reflected or reproduced in this Announcement.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD Anthony Cheong Fook Seng
Company Secretary
17 January 2013

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