Company Announcements – October 2006

Big Bon Finance plc

The Annual General Meeting of Big Bon Finance plc is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, 11th October 2006, at the Group’s premises in order to consider and approve the Company’s Financial Statement for the financial year ended on 30th April 2006.     

Maltacom

Maltacom has announced that it has signed the Interconnection agreement with Melita Cable plc.

Bank of Valletta

The Government Privatisation Unit, by its letter dated 4th October 2006, has informed Bank of Valletta plc that the Government of Malta (“GM”) has decided to take its BOV shareholding off the market for the time being, and to cease any further proactive marketing efforts at this time.

In January 2005 the GM and Banco di Sicilia (“BdS”) had agreed jointly to appoint Rothschild SpA as independent financial advisors to assist them with the sale of their respective shareholdings in BOV. GM’s shareholding amounts to 25.22% of the issued capital of BOV, whilst BdS represented a 14.55% of the holding.  Please click on the above heading to view official announcement.

Simonds Farsons Cisk

At a meeting held on 4th October 2006, the Board of Directors of Simonds Farsons Cisk plc approved the Farsons Group’s Financial Statements and Half Yearly Report for the six month period ending 31st July 2006. Please click on the heading in order to view the original announcement including the financial statements.