Basis of Allotment

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FOUR SOFT LIMITED
(Incorporated as Four Soft Pvt Ltd. on December 24, 1999, Hyderabad and converted to a Public Limited Company vide Fresh Certificate of Incorporation dated April 23, 2003)
Regd.Office: 5 Q1A3, 5th Floor, Cyber Tower, Hitec City, Madhapur, Hyderabad-500033
Telephone:(040) 23100600,23100601 Fax: (040)23100602 email: investorinfo@four-soft.com
Website : www.four-soft.com

PUBLIC ISSUE OF 79,50,000 EQUITY SHARES OF Rs.5 EACH ISSUED FOR CASH AT A PREMIUM OF Rs.20 PER SHARE AGGREGATING Rs.1987.50 LACS

The Board of Directors of the Four Soft Limited ("Company") thank the investing public for their overwhelming response to the Public Offer of Equity Shares of the Company which opened for subscription on February 16, 2004 and closed on February 23, 2004. The Company has received 29,918 valid applications for a total of 4,81,00,900 shares resulting in over subscription of 6.05 times. The Basis of Allotment was finalized on March 4, 2004 in consultation with the National Stock Exchange of India Limited and the Board of Directors have allotted the shares at their meeting held on March 5, 2004 as per details given below :

No. of times subscribed Overall 6.05 times
Public Category Retail 5.48 times
Non Retail 6.62 times
Total No. of Valid Applications 29,918

a) Net Offer to Indian Public

i) Retail Category (upto Rs. 50,000)

The Company has received 29,255 valid applications for a total of 2,18,05,500 Equity Shares resulting in 5.48 times over subscription in the category. Allotments have been made to the appllications in proportion to the inverse of the subscription ratio, rounded off to the nearest marketable lot of 100 shares and the number of shares allotted is 41,08,500, including 1,33,500 shares additionally allotted due to rounding off. Allotment of Shares upto the category of 400 shares has been made on the basis of draw of lots.

Details of allotment made under this category are :

Category No. of Shares
Applied
Ratio No. of Shares
Allotted to each Allottee
Total No. of Shares
Allotted in this Category
200 1323200 2:5 100 264600
300 1221600 3:5 100 244300
400 661600 3:4 100 124100
500 2715500 1:1 100 543100
1000 4578000 1:1 200 915600
1300 50700 1:1 200 7800
1600 156800 1:1 300 29400
1900 4290200 1:1 300 677400
2000 4146000 1:1 400 829200


ii) Non-retail Category - Individuals above Rs. 50,000/-, Corporates & Others

The Company has received 663 valid applications for a total of 2,62,95,400 Equity Shares resulting in over subscription of 6.62 times. Allotments have been made to applicants in proportion to the inverse of the subscription ratio, rounded off to the nearest marketable lot of 100 shares and the number of shares allotted is 39,81,800, including 6,800 shares additionally allotted due to rounding off. Details of allotment made under this category are :

Category No. of Shares
Applied
Ratio No. of Shares
Allotted to each Allottee
Total No. of Shares
Allotted in this Category
2100 56700 Firm 300 8100
2500 240000 Firm 400 38400
3000 87000 Firm 500 14500
5000 610000 Firm 800 97600
10000 510000 Firm 1500 76500
20000 260000 Firm 3000 39000
50000 1100000 Firm 7600 167200
100000 2600000 Firm 15100 392600
500000 2500000 Firm 75600 378000
1200000 2400000 Firm 181400 362800
2500000 2500000 Firm 377900 377900
3000000 3000000 Firm 453500 453500

Despatch of Refund Orders and electronic credit of shares to the beneficiary account allottees with CDSL/NSDL has been completed by March 8, 2004.

Four Soft Limited has submitted listing applications to National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange on March 9, 2004.

All future correspondence in this respect should be addressed to the Registrar to the issue quoting Full Name of the first applicant, Serial no. of the application form, No. of Shares applied for, and Name of the Bank Branch where the application was lodged, at the following address :

KARVY COMPUTERSHARE PRIVATE LIMITED
(Formerly Registry Division of Karvy Consultants Limited)

Unit Four Soft Public Issue
Karvy House, 46, Avenue 4, Street No. 1, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad - 500 034
Tel No. (040) 2331 2454; Fax No. (040) 2331 1968
E-mail : mailmanager@karvy.com

For FOUR SOFT LIMITED
Sd/-
Naresh Kumar Patro
Company Secretary

Place : Hyderabad
Date  : March 11th, 2004

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