Macquarie CountryWide Trust Unit Purchase Plan - offer to unitholders
23/04/2007
We are pleased to advise that on 18 April 2007, Macquarie CountryWide acquired a portfolio of five hypermarket anchored shopping centres in Poland and two hypermarket anchored shopping centres in Germany in two separate transactions for a total consideration of €351 million (A$571million). These acquisitions represent Macquarie CountryWide’s initial entry into Europe and follow the Trust’s strategy to redeploy capital from strategic asset sales and invest in accretive acquisitions.