TDM BERHAD (6265-P ) (Incorporated in Malaysia) Directors’ Report and Audited Financial Statements 31 December 2003 6265-P TDM BERHAD (Incorporated in Malaysia) CONTENTS PAGE Directors’ Report 1 - 6 Statement by Directors 7 Statutory Declaration 8 Report of Auditors 9 - 10 Income Statements 11 Balance Sheets 12 - 13 Statements of Changes in Equity 14 - 15 Cash Flow Statements 16 - 18 Notes to the Financial Statements 19 - 72 6265-P TDM BERHAD (Incorporated in Malaysia) DIRECTORS' REPORT The directors present their report together with the audited financial statements of the Group and of the Company for the financial year ended 31 December 2003. PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES The principal activities of the Company are investment holding and provision of management services and operates its own oil palm estates. The principal activities of its subsidiary companies are described in Note 13 to the financial statements. There have been no significant changes in the nature of subsidiaries activities during the financial year. EVENT DURING THE YEAR On 18 July 2003, TDM Plantation Sdn Bhd ("TDMP"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, disposed of Nescaya Palma Sdn Bhd for RM700 upon the approval from Sarawak state government. The above transaction has no material impact on the earnings and net tangible assets of the Group and as such, no separate disclosure on the disposal has been made in the financial statements. FINANCIAL RESULTS Group RM'000 Profit/(Loss) before taxation 29,079 Taxation (12,555) Profit/(Loss) after taxation 16,524 Minority interests (1,628) Profit attributable to shareholders 14,896 Accumulated losses brought forward (as restated) (44,132) Accumulated losses carried forward (29,236) 1 6265-P FINANCIAL RESULTS (CONT'D.) There were no material transfers to or from reserves or provisions during the financial year other than as disclosed in the statement of changes in equity. In the opinion of the directors, the results of the operations of the Group and of the Company during the financial year were not substantially affected by any item, transaction or event of a material and unusual nature. DIVIDENDS No dividend has been paid, declared and proposed by the Company since the end of the previous financial year. DIRECTORS The names of the directors of the Company in office since the date of the last report and at the date of this report are: YB Wan Hisham bin Dato' Wan Salleh Chairman (Appointed on 15 Apr Y Bhg Dato' Wan Zakaria bin Abd Rahman (Appointed on 15 Apr Y Bhg Dato' Awi @ Alwi bin Said (Appointed on 27 Apr Y Bhg Dato' Senara Muda (Dato' Mazlan @ Mohd Nanri bin Hashim) YM Raja Haji Idris bin Raja Kamarudin Y Bhg Dato' Haji Hassan @ Shugib bin Lebai Mat Tuan Haji Zakaria bin Awang (Appointed on 15 Apr Tuan Haji Abd Jalil bin Ali Y Bhg Dato' Ustaz Haji Harun bin Taib (Resigned on 1 April Y Bhg Md. Azmi bin Lop Yusof (Resigned on 1 April Y Bhg Dr Wan Hassan bin Wan Embong (Resigned on 15 Apri DIRECTORS' BENEFITS Neither at the end of the financial year, nor at any time during the year, did there subsist any arrangement, to which the Company was a party, whereby the directors might acquire benefits by means of the acquisition of shares in or debentures of the Company or any other body corporate. Since the end of the previous financial year, no director has received or become entitled to receive a benefit (other than benefits included in the aggregate amount of emoluments received or due and receivable by the directors as shown in Note 6 to the financial statements or the fixed salary of a full-time employee of the Company) by reason of a contract made by the Company or a related corporation with any director or with a firm of which he is a member, or with a company in which he has a substantial financial interest. 2 6265-P DIRECTORS INTERESTS According to the register of directors' shareholdings, the interests of directors in office at the end of the financial year in shares in the Company and its related corporations during the financial year were as follows: Number of Ordinary Shares of RM1 Each The Company 1 January 31 December 2003 Bought Exercised Sold 2003 Direct Interest YM Raja Haji Idris 209,000 73,000 202,000 43,000 441,000 Bin Raja Kamarudin None of the other directors in office at the end of the financial year had any interest in shares in the Company or its related corporations during the financial year. ISSUE OF SHARES During the financial year, the Company increased its issued and paid-up share capital from RM105,999,161 to RM215,524,302 by way of the following: (a) Issuance of 209,700 new ordinary shares by the Company for cash by virtue of the exercise of options pursuant to the Company's ESOS at an exercise price of RM1.47 per share. (b) Issuance of 1,553,290 new ordinary shares of RM 1.00 each by the Company to the participating creditors of TDM Plantation Sdn Bhd and Kumpulan Mediiman Sdn Bhd, the subsidiaries of TDM Berhad at an issue price of RM1.58 per share. (c) Bonus issue of 107,762,151 new ordinary shares of RM1 each on the basis of one (1) new ordinary share for every one (1) existing ordinary share of RM1.00 each held. (d) Increase in authorised share capital from RM200,000,000 comprising 200,000,000 ordinary shares of RM1.00 each to RM500,000,000 comprising 500,000,000 ordinary shares of RM1.00 each. EMPLOYEE SHARE OPTION SCHEME The Employee Share Option Scheme ("ESOS") was approved by shareholders of the Company at an Extraordinary General Meeting held on 24 June 1999. The ESOS granted options to eligible employees of the Group with the right to subscribe for new ordinary shares of RM1.00 each ("Share") of the Company at the predetermined subscription price. 3 6265-P EMPLOYEE SHARE OPTION SCHEME (CONT'D.) The main features of the ESOS are as follows: (a) Eligible employees of the Group who have been confirmed in their employment and have been in the service of the Group for at least one year on or prior to the Date of Offer. Where an employee is serving under a fixed term contract of employment, the contract should be for a period of at least three years. In respect of employees who are non-Malaysians, they may be considered for eligibility when they serve any company within the Group on a full-time basis. (b) The option is personal to the grantee and is non-assignable. (c) The maximum number of Shares to be offered under the ESOS shall not exceed in aggregate ten (10) percent of the total number of issued and paid-up shares of the Company at any point of time during the existence of the ESOS which shall be in force for a period of five (5) years from 9 December 1999 being the date of approval by the Securities Commission. (d) The subscription price for the new Shares shall be determined by the closing market price of the Company's ordinary shares on the market day immediately preceding the date of offer, the average of the mean market quotation of the Shares as shown in the daily official list issued by the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange for the five (5) market days immediately preceding the date the options are offered, or at the par value of the ordinary shares of the Company, whichever is higher. (e) The options granted under the ESOS shall be capable of being exercised by the grantee at anytime within a period of five (5) years commencing from the date of the offer or such shorter period as may be specifically stated in the offer by notice in writing to the Company. The option does not confer on any person the rights to participate in any share issue of any other company. The movements in the options since the date of the last report are as follows: Option Unissued Share Price Options RM As at 1 January 2003 1.47 3,131,000 Less: Entitlement Forfeited - Resignation (196,000) - Retirement (93,500) - Exercise (209,700) Bonus Issue 2,631,800 As at 31 December 2003 5,263,600 4 6265-P OTHER STATUTORY INFORMATION (a) Before the income statements and balance sheets of the Group and of the Company were made out, the directors took reasonable steps: (i) to ascertain that proper action had been taken in relation to the writing off of bad debts and the making of provision for doubtful debts and satisfied themselves that all known bad debts had been written off and that adequate provision had been made for doubtful debts; and (ii) to ensure that any current assets which were unlikely to realise their value as shown in the accounting records in the ordinary course of business had been written down to an amount which they might be expected so to realise. (b) At the date of this report, the directors are not aware of any circumstances not otherwise dealt with in this report or financial statements of the Group and of the Company which would render: (i) the amount written off for bad debts or the amount of the provision for doubtful debts inadequate to any substantial extent; and (ii) the values attributed to current assets in the financial statements of the Group and of the Company misleading. (c) At the date of this report, the directors are not aware of any circumstances which have arisen which render adherence to the existing method of valuation of assets or liabilities of the Group and of the Company misleading or inappropriate.