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 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.