HEINEKEN Extends Closing Date of Offer for Remaining APB Shares

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Amsterdam, 8 January 2013 – Heineken N.V. (‘HEINEKEN’) today announced that the closing date of Heineken International B.V.’s (‘HIBV’) mandatory unconditional cash offer (the ‘Offer’), launched on 4 December 2012, for all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares (‘APB Shares’) in the capital of Asia Pacific Breweries Limited (‘APB’), other than those already owned or controlled by HIBV, shall be extended to Friday, 18 January 2013 at 5:30 p.m. (Singapore time), or such later date(s) as may be announced by or on behalf of HIBV.

As of 5.30 p.m. (Singapore time) on 7 January 2013, the total number of (a) APB Shares owned by HIBV and (b) valid acceptances of the Offer, amount to an aggregate of 256,532,896 APB Shares, representing approximately 99.34% of the total issued share capital of APB.

HEINEKEN furthermore announced that APB shall be delisted from the Singapore Exchange on or around 14 March 2013, or such earlier date as permissible under applicable Singapore regulations.

The regulatory announcement made by HIBV in Singapore today is attached to this media release.

Directors’ Responsibility Statement

The directors of each of HIBV and HEINEKEN (including those who may have delegated 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 there are no other material facts not contained in this Announcement the omission of which would make any statement in this Announcement misleading.

Where any information has been extracted or reproduced from published or otherwise publicly available sources or obtained from F&N or APB, the sole responsibility of the directors of each of HIBV and HEINEKEN has been to ensure through reasonable enquiries that such information has been accurately and correctly extracted from such sources or, as the case may be, accurately reflected or reproduced in this Announcement. The directors of each of HIBV and HEINEKEN jointly and severally accept responsibility accordingly.