i.century Holding Limited provided preliminary unaudited consolidated earnings guidance for the nine months ended 31 December 2018. For the nine months, the board of directors of the Company announced the shareholders of the Company and potential investors that based on the information currently available to the Company and the preliminary review of the unaudited consolidated management accounts of the Group for the nine months ended 31 December 2018, it is expected although the Group would record an increase in the sales volume by approximately 130,000 pieces for the nine months ended 31 December 2018, the Group would record a slight decrease in the revenue by approximately 0.5% for the nine months ended 31 December 2018 and, there will be a loss attributable to the owners of the Company for the period in 2018 as compared to the profit during the corresponding period in 2017. Such loss is mainly attributable to the decrease in gross profit and gross profit margin of the Group, for the nine months ended 31 December 2018 in particular, which was mainly due to the U.S. customers changed to a conservative procurement attitude due to their raising concern over current status of the trade conflicts between China and the U.S.; and the decrease in average selling price of two major products of the Group, jackets and pullover; and the increase in administrative expenses by approximately HKD 7.5 million which was mainly due to the recurrence of legal and professional fee after the listing and annual salary increment for administrative staff and directors.