Notice regarding the acquisition of a qualifying holding

Pursuant to the provisions of the Rules of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange d.d. and the Securities Market Act (ZTVP-1) (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 56/99), KD d.d., Ljubljana, hereby issues the following announcement:

KD Group, finančna družba d.d., Celovška 206, Ljubljana, in accordance with the second paragraph of Article 66 of the Securities Market Act (ZTVP-1, Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 56/99), paragraph 2 of Article 64 of the Takeovers Act (ZPre, Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, Nos. 47/97, 56/99), Articles 6 and 10 of the Decision on the detailed content and method of publication of notices by public companies, and Article 43 of the Stock Exchange Rules, we hereby announce that on 2 August 2004 we received a notification from Deželna banka Slovenije d.d., Ljubljana, a notification regarding the acquisition of a qualifying holding, in which it informs us that, with effect from 1 July2004, through the assumption of the receivables and liabilities of the HKS Association, it had acquired 2.804 per cent of the shares in KD Group d.d. Consequently, Deželna banka Slovenije d.d., Ljubljana, is the holder of 12,782 shares in KD Group d.d. (share code SKDR), representing a 6.856 per cent stake in all shares of KD Group d.d. that confer voting rights.


KD Group d.d.
Director
Matjaž Gantar