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 2010, the dividend for the fiscal year 2009 amounts to 0.01 euro per share.
According to the legislation in force, the dividend corresponding to the company’s 2,225,900 treasury shares is applied to the dividend paid out to the other shareholders and hence the dividend is increased to 0.01062 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 0.00955 euro per share.
Based on the record date rule, shareholders registered in the Dematerialized Securities System on Thursday July 8th 2010 (ex-div date is Tuesday July 6th 2010, before the start of trading), are entitled to receive the dividend.
The commencement for the dividend payment is set for Wednesday, July 14th 2010.
The dividend payment will take place via the National Bank of Greece through the following procedures:
For the cases 2 and 3 above, the dividend payment will be possible until 14.07.2011 by providing the DSS account information and an ID, either in person or through a legally authorized representative. After this date (14.07.2011) and until 31.12.2015 (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. Markos Alvertis or Mr. Elias Dimitriou, tel. 210 9477 833 or 210 9477 708).
Dividends not collected within 5 years are written-off in favor of the Greek State.