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Beneficial owner

The Capital Group Companies, Inc. "CGC"

CGC is a holding company for several subsidiary companies engaged in investment management business. The investment management business is divided into two operationnal groups represented by CRMC and Capital Group International, Inc. ("CGII"). CRMC is a U.S.-based investment adviser that manages The American Funds Group of mutual funds. CGII is the parent company of five companies that serve as investment managers to various institutional clients aroud the globe: CGTC in the US, CII in the US and Singapore, CIL in the United Kingdom and CISA in Switzerland. CRMC and CGII are 100% affiliates of CGC. CGTC, CII, CIL, CISA and CIKK are 100% affiliates of CGII. For a more complete description of our organization, please visit our Web site at www.capgroup.com. Neither CGC nor any of its subsidiaries own shares of this comany for their own account. Neither CGC nor any of its subidiaries are beneficial owners of the shares. The shares reported in this notification are owned by accounts under the dicretionnary investment management of one or more of the investment management companies described above. Furthermore, CRMC and CGII act seperately from one another and from CGC in exercising investment discretion over their managed accounts. The discretionnary investment management entitles CGC's management companies to exercise voting rights autonomously and this notification is therefore an "Independant notification according to Disclosure Office Notice Nr. II/99".