Financial  and  Capital Market Commission (FCMC), pursuant to Item 1.10

of  FCMC "Regulations on buyout of shares", hereby advises that a share

buyout  offer  was  received on 23.09.2003 from SIA "Linstow Varner", a

shareholder  of   JSC  "Universālveikals "Centrs"", offering to buy out

JSC  "Universālveikals "Centrs"" shares with nominal value LVL 1 at LVL

0.94  per share, and shares with nominal value LVL 0.05 at LVL 0.05 per

share.  Shareholders  may  respond to the offer within 6 weeks starting

from  the next business day after the advertisement on the share buyout

has been published in the newspaper "Latvijas Vēstnesis".



Share  buyout  comes into effect only after it has been approved by the

Financial and Capital Market Commission.