The Board of Directors of GR. SARANTIS S.A. informs its shareholders that according to the decision of the Company’s Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting on June 30th 2009, the dividend for the fiscal year 2008 amounts to 0.03 euro per share.
According to the legislation in force, the dividend corresponding to the company’s 2,183,100 treasury shares is applied to the dividend paid out to the other shareholders and hence the dividend is increased to 0.03181 euro per share.
The aforementioned dividend amount is subject to a 10% withholding tax (in accordance with the provisions of article 18 of L.3697/2008), and therefore shareholders will receive a net amount of 0.02863 euro per share.
Based on the record date rule, shareholders registered in the Dematerialized Securities System on Thursday 30th 2009 (ex-div date is Tuesday 28th 2009, before the start of trading), are entitled to receive the dividend.
The commencement for the dividend payment is set for Wednesday, August 5th 2009.
The dividend payment will take place via the National Bank of Greece through the following procedures:
- Through the official users in the Dematerialized Securities System according to paragraph 5.5 of the Athens Exchange Regulation and in article 39 of the DSS Rulebook.
- Through the branches of the National Bank of Greece for shareholders who have requested the exemption of their official user in the Dematerialized Securities System or have their shares in the Special account of their Investor’s Share Securities account kept with DSS.
- Shareholders, who for various reasons, were not able to receive the dividend through their operators will be able to receive their dividend through the branches of the National Bank of Greece.
For the cases 2 and 3 above, the dividend payment will be possible until 05.08.2010 by providing the DSS account information and an ID, either in person or through a legally authorized representative. After this date (05.08.2010) and until 31.12.2004 (i.e. until the dividend is written off) the dividend payment will be possible in “GR. SARANTIS S.A.” premises at the following address: 26 Amarousiou-Halandriou Street, Marousi, 15125, Athens, tel. +30 210 6173000.
For more information, Shareholders are requested to contact the Company’s Investor Relations Department, tel. + 30 210 6173065, or the National Bank of Greece (contact Mr. Ioannis Xidis or Mr. Elias Dimitriou, tel. 210 3340611 or 210 3340613).
Dividends not collected within 5 years are written-off in favor of the Greek State.