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 More options Dec 16 2008, 12:47 pm
From: josephzhang2...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:47:24 -0800 (PST)
Local: Tues, Dec 16 2008 12:47 pm
Subject: Re: What does it mean? Vimicro Announces the Adoption of a Shareholder Rights Plan
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This plan is designed to protect the company from being taken over.
However, the 5 us dollars exec price is so high that also means the
individual shareholders's rights was ignored and the share price will
never go up to 5 dollars.
Dafei wrote:
> Can someone explain what this means? Thnx.

> Vimicro Corporation Logo. (PRNewsFoto/VIMICRO CORPORATION)

> BEIJING CHINA

> BEIJING, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Vimicro International
> Corporation (Nasdaq: VIMC) ("Vimicro" or the "Company"), a leading
> fabless semiconductor company that designs and develops multimedia
> semiconductor products and solutions, today announced that the Company
> has adopted a shareholder rights plan. The rights plan is designed to
> protect the best interests of the Company and its shareholders.

> (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070528/CNM014LOGO )

> The Board of Directors authorized the execution of a rights agreement
> and a distribution of one right for each outstanding ordinary share of
> the Company at the closing of business on December 22, 2008. The
> rights will be deemed attached to the certificates representing
> outstanding ordinary shares, and no separate rights certificates will
> be issued. The rights will become exercisable only if a person or
> group obtains ownership of or announces a tender offer for 20% or more
> of Vimicro's voting securities (including Vimicro's American
> Depositary Shares representing ordinary shares). The shareholder
> rights plan will continue to be in effect until December 12, 2018,
> unless the plan is terminated by Vimicro or the rights are redeemed by
> Vimicro before the plan expires. The rights are not being distributed
> in response to any specific effort to acquire control of the Company.

> About Vimicro International Corporation

> Vimicro International Corporation is a worldwide leading fabless
> semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets proprietary
> embedded multimedia signal processing chips and solutions that enable
> multimedia applications for mobile phones over 2.5G/3G networks and
> PCs over broadband Internet. Vimicro's ADSs, each of which represents
> four ordinary shares, are currently trading on the NASDAQ global
> market under the ticker symbol "VIMC."

>     For further information about Vimicro, please contact:

>     Investor Contact:
>      Emilie Deng
>      Investor Relations Manager
>      Tel:   +86-10-6894-8888 x7143
>      Email: dengli...@vimicro.com
>      Web:  http://www.vimicro.com

>     Shelton Group
>      Ryan Bright
>      Tel:   +1-972-239-5119 x159
>      Email: rbri...@sheltongroup.com


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