Athens Medical CSA, announces that according to the decision of the Annual General Assembly of June 26th 2009, the dividend for the year 2008 is euro 0,05 per share.
The abovementioned dividend amount is subject to a 10% withholding tax (0.005 euro per share), and the net amount is 0.045 euro per share.
Ex-dividend date : Monday, July 6th 2009. We would like to clarify that, since 01/01/2009, according to the new ATHEX Rulebook, corporate actions take place based in "record date" replacing the "trade date" rule. Based on the new rule, beneficiaries of the corporate action (dividend in this case) are those investors who are registered in the DSS on the relevant "record date".
Therefore, beneficiaries of the above mentioned dividend are the registered in the DSS investors on Wednesday July 8th 2009.
The payment of the dividend will be taking through the NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE, and will begin on Monday, July 13, 2009 until Monday, July 12, 2010. According to the new procedure for payment of dividends, as this is stated in article 329 of the Regulations of the Athens Stock Exchange and the article 39 of the Central Security Depository Regulations, the payment of the dividends will be carried out according to the following:
1. Through the handlers (Banks, Stock Brokers) of the S.A.T.
2. Through the local branch offices of the NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE for those Stockholders who have requested the exception from their handlers of the S.A.T. of the above case #1.
3. The Stockholders for whom was not possible to establish credit through their handlers according to case #1, will be able to collect the dividends from the 17/07/2009 through the local branch offices of the NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE.
The collection of the dividend for cases 2 & 3, will be done with the announcement of the Code Number Investment Share and by also providing your lawful identification card at any branch office of the NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE.
The collection will be done by a legally authorized representative of the stockholder and by providing the power of attorney stating full details of the beneficiary and the empowered representative, authenticated by the legal authorities.
All handlers/dealers are kindly requested to contact Mr. Ioanni Xidis, at the NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE at the Subdivision of Private Investors and Stock Exchange Custodian, Karegeorgi Servias 6, 3rd floor, Syntagma Square, tel. 210-3340611, or Mr. Elias Dimitriou at tel. 210-3340613.
Our Company's Stockholders will be served from all branch offices of the NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE. For further information or clarifications, they may contact Mr. Ioanni Xidi, at tel. 210-3340611, or Mr. Elias Dimitriou at tel. 210-3340613, as well as our Company's Office of Investor Relations at 210-6862454.
From Wednesday, July 14, 2010, the payment of the dividend will be conducted only from our central company offices (Distomou 5-7, Maroussi).