Crescent Hydropolis Resorts PLC
11 September 2006
CRESCENT HYDROPOLIS RESORTS PLC
Isle of Man Munich Qingdao
ANNOUNCEMENT
(for immediate release)
Appointment of Non-Executive Director, Changes to Shareholdings
Crescent Hydropolis Resorts PLC (the Company) is pleased to announce the
appointment of Mr. Alfred Michael Wuttke as a Non-Executive Director.
Mr. Richard Armstrong has today resigned as a director to pursue his other
interests. The Board wishes to thank Mr. Armstrong for his assistance and
counsel during the past year and wishes him well in the future.
Mr. Wuttke, aged 44, is an executive director of UBS Stuttgart-Baden Wurttemberg
in Germany. Prior to his position at UBS, he worked for several years in the
investment trading division of the Baden-Wurttembergische Bank, and for several
years prior to that as a broker for KST-Wertpapierhandels AG at the Stuttgart
Stock Exchange. Mr. Wuttke and members of the Alfred Wuttke family own
5,685,000 shares representing 7.01% of the outstanding shares of the Company,
which shares were acquired from shares held by Mr. Klaus Foerster acting as
trustee for Poseidon, Neptune and Apollo investors in the Company for no
consideration on 4 September 2006.
The Company further announces that Mr. Foerster acting as trustee for Poseidon,
Neptune and Apollo investors in the Company has reduced his holdings on 4
September 2006 in the Company from 56,675,149 shares representing 69.94% to
45,735,149 shares representing 56.44%. As a result of these changes, Mr.
Joachim Hauser, executive chairman of the Company, has transferred for no
consideration to certain of his family members and close associates a total of
9,540,00 shares and continues to hold for the benefit of his family members,
close associates and himself a total of 24,760,149 shares representing 30.56%.
Additionally, as a result of transfers for no consideration to family members
and for the benefit of not-for-profit institutions and charitable organizations,
Mr. Mansoor Ijaz, chief executive of the Company, has reduced his holdings in
the Company as of September 11, 2006 to 625,000 shares, representing 0.77%.
The Board of Directors of the Company also announce certain changes in the
jurisdictional and Companies Act law references in the Company's 2005 Annual
Report on pages 5, 6 and 7 which were identified during a routine review of the
document by the Company's Isle of Man counsel.
These changes appear on pages 5, 6 and 7 of the 2005 Annual Report and are:
• Reference to 'Company law' has now been changed to 'Isle of Man law'; and
• Reference to 'Companies Act 1985' has been changed to 'Companies Acts 1931
to 2004; and
• The Company's auditor is being reappointed at the forthcoming Annual
General Meeting 'in accordance with Section 12(2) of the Companies Act
1982.'
• The number of shares held by Mr Klaus Foerster as printed on Page 5 was
56,300,149. The number should be 56,675,149. The percentage of holdings of
69.94% was correctly stated.
Save as disclosed, there is no other relevant information required under the AIM
Rules.
11 September 2006
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