RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE

COMPANY'S ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED

31 MARCH 2021

The Board of Directors (the "Board") of Addvalue Technologies Ltd (the "Company" and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") hereby enclosed the response of the Company to the questions raised by the shareholders of the Company (the "Shareholders") and the Securities Investors Association (Singapore) ("SIAS") in connection with the annual report of the Company for the financial year ended 31 March 2021 ("FY2021") released on 14 September 2021.

Some of the statements contained in the enclosed response constitute 'forward-looking statements' that do not directly or exclusively relate to historical facts. These forward- looking statements reflect the Company's current intentions, plans, expectations, assumptions, and beliefs about future events and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside the control of the Company and may affect the extent of the realization of the Company's prevailing indicative orders for the financial year ending 31 March 2022 and beyond. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations expressed or implied in the forward- looking statements include known and unknown risks and factors such as general economic and business conditions, including the uncertainties arising from the current ongoing trade war and stand-off between US and China; continued concerns of the scale of the possible adverse fallouts and their implications on the global scene triggered by the prevailing global Covid-19 pandemic as well as other political and economic issues confronting the world; deflationary pressures and undue currency movements; change in technology; delay in signing, commencement, implementation and performance of programs, or the delivery of products or services under them or the implementation of improved airtime package by the satellite operators. Because actual results could differ materially from our intentions, plans, expectations, assumptions and beliefs about the future and any negative impacts arising from these issues will affect the performance of the Group's businesses, undue reliance must not be placed on these statements.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD

Dr Colin Chan Kum Lok

Chairman & CEO

27 September 2021

RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE COMPANY'S

ANNUAL REPORTFOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

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Question

The Company's Response on 27 September 2021

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Lo Tak Meng,

1. The Company is skipping from

The Group, being a people oriented and technology-based (rather than a

a Shareholder

one financing episode to another.

tangible asset-based) company, is acutely aware that the intrinsic values

The Board and Management

of its intangibles have not (for the many past years) and are not

have done an extremely poor job

meaningfully reflected in the trading prices of the shares of the Company.

in avoiding such stress. How

The Board believes the poor showing of the share price performance of

could the Board have sanctioned

the Company was due largely to:

a rights issue without

underwriting? Such episodes

1. the market's inability to better comprehend the complex economic

consume management time and

potentials availed by the relatively technologically advanced

create much uncertainty for

intangibles developed by the Group; and

investors who believe in you. The

2. the market's tilted weight on the short-termbottom-line performance

Board should explore M&A

of the Group, which pre-necessitates the Group to undergo certain

possibilities a lot more actively. I

gestation periods prior to the delivery of the bottom-line and, to

believe the Company is worth a

certain extent, also hinges on the success of the Company's fund-

lot more to someone who

raising efforts.

understands its potential. Time is

running out.

Amidst the challenging fund-raising environment faced by the Company

aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic situation then and in response to

the past repeated requests by the Shareholders for participation in the

Company's fund-raising efforts, the rights issue was eventually carried

out by the Company on a non-underwritten basis. The Board shares the

sentiments that the Group is worth a lot more had its unearthed

potentials been better understood and appreciated by the market. In this

regard, the Company continues with its lookout for possible new avenues

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and discussions with possible interested partners to unlock the potentials

of the Group in enhancing the Shareholders' value, including but not

limited to exploring potential new businesses, joint ventures, mergers,

acquisitions, purchase or sale of assets. The Company would like to

highlight that the said ongoing discussions are at various preliminary

stages of negotiation, and there is no certainty that the Company will

eventually proceed with one or more of them. More details about any of

such potential ventures will be announced by the Company as and when

there is any material development concerning which.

2. At the appropriate time, the

The Board had considered the consolidation of the shares of the

Company should consider share

Company. It had decided against it after learning that many of the

consolidation. Given the current

companies listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited

share price, the bid-offer spread

("SGX-ST") which had carried out such a share consolidation exercise had

results in high transaction costs

saw a significant amount of their respective market capitalizations

for investors. I would suggest

'evaporated away' over time for no apparent fundamental reason.

100 to 1 consolidation.

2

Lee Chong

1. Pg 106 of Annual Report, has

The said convertible loan note will be redeemed from the S$8.5 million

Meng, a

convertible loan note 1 which

loan proceeds as mentioned in Note 43 on page 134 of the Company's

Shareholder

matured on 6 Sept 2021 been

annual report for the financial year ended 31 March 2021 (the "2021

redeemed?

Annual Report").

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2. How do Addvalue intend to use

Proceeds from the S$8.5 million loan will be utilised to repay certain

the $8.5 million loan (pg 134)?

loans of the Group and for business expansion purposes.

3. Will Addvalue consider providing

The Company will provide periodic updates on the financials of the Group

a quarterly update of your

in accordance with the applicable regulatory requirements, including

balance sheet, especially

those prescribed by the listing manual of the SGX-ST (the "Listing

pertaining to debt and cash?

Manual").

4. When will this incessant raising

The Company is currently in discussion with potential investors for an

of new debt to pay off old debt

equity funding to reduce the gearing of the Group and for business

end?

expansion. Such discussions are at various stages of negotiation, and

there can be no assurance of their eventual realization.

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David Gerald

1. In the operations review, the

(SIAS), a non-

company highlighted the

Shareholder

operational milestones in

different areas, which include

(pages 12 to 15 of the annual

report):

Inter-satellite Data Relay

System (IDRS)

Reconfigurable Embedded

Systems (RES)

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FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

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  • Integrated Products and Services (IPS)
  • Design services

In spite of the operational milestones, revenue for the group decreased from US$9.6 million in FY2020 to US$2.68 million in FY2021. Loss for the year was US$(6.18) million while accumulated losses have increased to US$(75.1) million (page 56 - Statements of financial position).

As at 31 March 2021, the group had cash and cash equivalent of US$274,099. The independent auditors have included a material uncertainty related to going concern in their report on the audit of financial statements for the financial year ended 31 March 2021 (page 48). As noted

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