The Board of Wing On Company International Limited announced that, based on the preliminary review of the unaudited consolidated management accounts for the year ended 31 December 2019 currently available to the management, the Group expects to record a decrease of approximately 55% in the amount of profit attributable to shareholders for the year ended 31 December 2019 as compared to that for the corresponding period in 2018. However, the Group's underlying profit attributable to shareholders, which excludes net valuation gain on the Group's investment properties and related deferred tax thereon, for the year ended 31 December 2019 is expected to be better than that for the corresponding period in 2018 by approximately 48%.