Interim Dividend Payment No. 2
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Dividend consideration
Subject : Cash dividend payment
Date of Board resolution : 19-Apr-2013
Type of dividend payment : Cash dividend payment
Record date for the right to receive : 07-May-2013
dividends
Book closing date for collecting : 08-May-2013
shareholders names under Section 225 of
the Securities and Exchange Act
Ex-dividend date : 02-May-2013
Payment for : Common shareholders
Cash dividend payment (baht per share) : 0.18
Par value (baht) : 4.00
Payment date : 17-May-2013
Paid from :
Operating period from 01-Oct-2012 to 31-Dec-2012 and retained Earnings
Remark :
The Board of Directors' Meeting No. 3/2013 of BTS Group Holdings Public Company
Limited (the "Company"), held on April 19, 2013 passed the resolutions to
approve the Company to pay the interim dividend No. 2 from the net income for
the three-month period (from October 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012) and retained
earnings as at December 31, 2012 (the financial statements on a standalone
basis) to the shareholders of the Company, at the dividend payment rate of Baht
0.18 per share (18.0 Satang per share) or equivalent to the total interim
dividend payment of not exceeding Baht 2,052.5 million. This dividend payment is
the second interim dividend payment of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013.
(Remark: The Company made the first interim dividend payment on February 8, 2013
at the dividend payment rate of Baht 0.163 per share (16.3 Satang per share)).
The Company sets the record date, the share register closure date and the
payment date of interim dividend No. 2 as follows:
(1) The date of determining the names of shareholders who shall be entitled to
receive the interim dividend (Record Date) : May 7, 2013
(2) The date to gather the names of shareholders under Section 225 of the
Securities and Exchange Act B.E. 2535 (as amended) by closure of the share
register book and suspension of share transfer : May 8, 2013
(3) The payment date of the interim dividend : May 17, 2013
In this regard, the shareholders who are disqualified to receive the dividend
under the law will not be entitled to this dividend payment. Moreover, for the
dividend payment at Baht 0.18 per share (18.0 Satang per share), the individual
shareholders cannot claim any dividend tax credits under Section 47 bis of the
Revenue Code because the whole sum is paid from dividend income which is
exempted from the corporate income tax.
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