Pursuant to the instructions of the Kuwait Stock Exchange and pursuant to the provisions of Article 5.4 of the Implementing Regulations of Law No. 7 of 2010 on the Establishment of the Capital Markets Authority (Kuwait) and Regulation of Securities Activities and its Amendments. Specialties Group Holding Company would like to inform shareholders and markets that there have been no recent developments that would affect the trading volume other than what has been previously disclosed. The Group has no information on the reasons for this unusual and high trading of its shares on the Kuwait Stock Exchange on Sunday 5 January 2020.