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HISTORY AND CERTAIN CORPORATE MATTERSWe are a de-mutualised multi commodity association and were incorporated on April 19 2002 under the name MultiCommodity Exchange of India Private Limited. The subscribers to the Memorandum of Association were V.Hariharan and Rinsy Ansalam. Further allotments were made to La-Fin Financial Services Private Limited SajitDayanandan Dewang Neralla Ajay Narsimhan and Manjay Shah on April 22 2002. Subsequently on May 162002 we were converted into a public company and consequently our name was changed to Multi CommodityExchange of India Limited. We received a fresh certificate of incorporation from the RoC pursuant to the change inour name on May 28 2002. All the then existing shareholders transferred their shares to FTIL our Promoter onAugust 25 2003. We received permanent recognition from the Government of India for facilitating online tradingclearing and settlement operations for commodity futures markets across the country on September 26 2003. Onlinefutures trading commenced on MCX in November 2003. We received non-promoter equity participation for the firsttime in the year 2004 when Bank of India Union Bank and Corporation Bank invested in the Equity Shares of ourCompany. Since then we have received equity participation from various banks and financial institutions includingState Bank of India in July 2004 HDFC Bank Limited in March 2005 the NSE in May 2005 and NABARD in June2005. Fidelity Funds-India Focus Funds (FID Funds (Mauritius) Limited) also invested in our Company bysubscribing to 3600000 Equity Shares of face value Rs.10 each on February 3 2006. During Fiscal 2008 ourPromoter FTIL sold 1953770 Equity Shares of Rs. 10 each to each of Citigroup Strategic Holdings MauritiusLimited and Merrill Lynch Holdings (Mauritius) 1563016 equity shares of face value Rs. 5 each to GLG FinancialFunds 2344524 equity shares of face value Rs. 5 each to Passport India Investment (Mauritius) Limited 2476190equity shares of face value Rs. 5 each to ICICI Trusteeship Services Limited 296000 equity shares of face value Rs.5each to ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited 3907540 equity shares of face value Rs.5 each toIL&FS Trust Company Limited 781508 equity shares of face value Rs.5 each to each of New Vernon Private EquityLimited Kotak Mahindra Trusteeship Services Limited and Alexandra Mauritius Limited. In June 2008 FTIL sold3907540 equity shares of face value Rs.5 each to Euronext N.V. As of the date of this Red Herring Prospectus our Company has 861 shareholders.Key MilestonesSome of the key milestones of our Company are as follows: -Year EventsMay 28 2002 Our Company was converted into a public limited company and our Company?s name was changed to Multi Commodity Exchange of India LimitedSeptember 26 2003 Our Company received permanent recognition from the Ministry of Consumer Affairs Food and Public Distribution Government of IndiaNovember 10 2003 First day of trading for our CompanyDecember 8 2003 Online futures trading during evening session and through Internet trading facilities was pioneeredNovember 29 2004 MoU entered into between FTIL and NAFED to create a national level agricultural spot exchange.June 7 2005 Launch of composite commodity futures index (=MCX-COMDEX?) by our CompanyJune 14 2005 "Commodity Suchana Kendra? a joint initiative between our Company Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Board (.MSAMB.) and NSEAP to link up all Agriculture Produce Market Committee (.APMC.) markets was launched at the Agriculture Produce Market Committee Navi Mumbai.October 25 2005 Our Company entered into a license agreement with London Metal Exchange (.LME.) for the use of the LME?s official prices as the basis for settlement of certain futures contractsDecember 1 2005 Our Company entered into a MoU with the University of Mumbai for creating a chair in its department of economicsJune 5 2006 Our Company signed a license agreement with NYMEXJune 12 2006 Our Company teamed up with the Department of Posts Government of India to launch Gramin Suvidha Kendra in Jalgaon Maharashtra for information dissemination and query redressal on agricultural issues to farmers using the Indian postal network.July 24 2006 Our Company signed an agreement with Euronext.LIFFEMay 23 2007 Our Company obtained ISO/IEC 27001: 2005 certificationJune 3 2008 Our Company was granted membership to the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (.IOSCO.).June 9 2008 Launch of futures in CER (Certified Emission Reduction) by our CompanyJuly 18 2008 Launch of the Gujarati and Hindi version of website mcxindia.com by our CompanyOctober 14 2009 Our Company released India?s first Yearbook on Indian Commodity Ecosystem in collaboration with PricewaterhouseCoopersNovember 30 2009 Our Company launched .Exchange of Futures for Physicals. (EFP) transactionsJune 7 2010 Our Company signed an MoU with Shanghai Futures ExchangeOctober 20 2010 Our Company was recertified to ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System standard by Bureau Veritas Certification (India)December 9 2010 Our Company released Commodity Insights Yearbook 2010 in collaboration with PwCDecember 20 2010 Our Company entered into an MoU with Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) to develop commodity futures market in IndiaSeptember 23 2011 Our Company recorded its highest daily turnover since inception of ` 1116.66 billionSeptember 2011 Our Company is the world?s fifth largest commodity futures exchange among all the commodity exchanges considered in the Futures Industry Association survey in terms of the number of futures contracts traded during the period January to June 2011Awards and recognitionsWe have received the following awards and recognition:Year Award/Recognition2008 Our Company was awarded the .Golden Peacock Eco-innovation award 2008. by the Institute of Directors2008 Our Company was recognized as .India?s First Green Exchange. by Priyadarshini Academy2008 Our Company received the .Best Bullion Exchange of the Year. award from the Bombay Bullion Association2009 Our Company received the .Sankalp Award. for Agriculture and Rural Innovation2010 Our Company received the NASSCOM Foundation Social Innovation Honours 20102010 Our Company received the FICCI Socio Economic Development Foundation (SEDF) Corporate Social Responsibility Award 2009-102010 Our Company received the .Best Commodity Exchange of the Year. award from the Bombay Bullion Association2011 Our Company received the .Financial Inclusion Award 2011. from the SKOCH Foundation2011 Our Company won the Indy?s award under the category =Best in Corporate Social Responsibility practices?2011 Our Company was selected as a Business Superbrand for the year 2010 - 20112011 Our Company won Bombay Bullion Association?s =Best Commodity Exchange of the Year? award