In connection with the abovementioned publication the Council and the Management Board of the company intend to give the following statement:

1. JSC „Ditton pievadķēžu rūpnīca” has not provided any information about the situation in the company to the news agency LETA. The sources used by LETA are not known to us.

2. JSC „Ditton pievadķēžu rūpnīca” has time and again faced publishing of untrue information, but sometimes even tendentiously false information in mass media. Unfortunately, all claims of the company about revoking and stopping of publishing such kind of information, including in supervisory institutions, have not been satisfied.

3. In these circumstances the Council and the Management Board do not see an expedience to comment information, which is obtained not from the company, but from third persons. The Council and the Management Board call repeatedly depositors and investors to use an official information by evaluating of the company which in published of the website of Riga Stock Exchange and in the ORICGS system of the Financial and Capital Market Commission.

4.  The Council and the Management Board is informing depositors and investors that all relevant indices, including number of employees, based on the results of 9 months of 2008 will be published on the abovementioned websites on November 28, 2008 after their approval by the Council and the Management Board in legal terms. The Council and the Management Board is drawing attention of depositors and investors to that that besides theses indices the financial statement of the company contain also analysis of market, risks and tendencies of development prospects and production development from the point of view of the JSC „Ditton pievadķēžu rūpnīca”. The company does not regard it as necessary and reasonable to analyse and comment opinion and arguments of the third persons.