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第一太平有限公司

(Incorporated with limited liability under the laws of Bermuda)

Website: http://www.firstpacific.com

(Stock Code: 00142) CONTINUING CONNECTED TRANSACTIONS FURTHER DELAY IN DESPATCH OF CIRCULAR

Reference is made to the announcements of First Pacific Company Limited (the "Company") dated 10 November 2016 (the "10 November Announcement") in relation to certain continuing connected transactions in respect of the Indofood Group and dated 29 November 2016 (the "29 November Announcement", and, together with the 10 November Announcement, the "Announcements") in relation to a delay in despatch of circular. Unless defined herein or the context otherwise requires, capitalised terms and expressions used in this announcement have the respective meanings given to them in the Announcements.

The 29 November Announcement stated that a circular containing, among other things, further information in relation to the continuing connected transactions which are subject to the Independent Shareholders' approval requirement as described in the 10 November Announcement, a letter from each of the Independent Financial Adviser and the Independent Board Committee containing its opinion and recommendation in relation to those transactions, and the SGM notice, will be despatched to shareholders of the Company on or before 6 December 2016.

As additional time is required to prepare and finalise the information to be contained in the circular, the Company expects that the date of despatch of the circular will be further postponed to a date falling on or before 30 December 2016.

By Order of the Board

First Pacific Company Limited Nancy L.M. Li

Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 6 December 2016

As at the date of this announcement, the board of directors of the Company comprises the following directors:

Executive Directors:

Manuel V. Pangilinan, Managing Director and CEO

Edward A. Tortorici Robert C. Nicholson

Non-executive Directors: Anthoni Salim, Chairman Benny S. Santoso

Tedy Djuhar

Ambassador Albert F. del Rosario

Independent Non-executive Directors: Prof. Edward K.Y. Chen, GBS, CBE, JP Margaret Leung Ko May Yee, SBS, JP Philip Fan Yan Hok

Madeleine Lee Suh Shin

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