27th Jun 2008 09:00
SABMILLER PLC
FINAL DIVIDEND
CURRENCY CONVERSION - SOUTH AFRICAN RANDS
27 June 2008
In its Preliminary Results announcement for the year ended 31 March 2008, published on Thursday, 15 May 2008, SABMiller plc announced that the exchange rates to be used to determine the Sterling and Rand equivalent of the final dividend of 42 US cents per share would be calculated using the exchange rate prevailing on Thursday, 26 June 2008 for the Rand equivalent and on Monday, 28 July 2008 for the Sterling equivalent.
The rate of exchange determined on Thursday, 26 June 2008 is $:R = 7.9531786, resulting in an equivalent final dividend of 334.0335012 SA cents per share.
The dividend will be payable on Thursday, 7 August 2008 to all shareholders registered on the London and Johannesburg registers on Friday, 11 July 2008. The ex-dividend trading dates will be Wednesday, 9 July 2008 on the London Stock Exchange and Monday, 7 July 2008 on the JSE Limited. The Sterling exchange rate will be announced on Tuesday, 29 July 2008.
Shareholders will be asked to approve this proposal at the annual general meeting scheduled for Thursday, 31 July 2008.
From the commencement of trade on Friday, 27 June 2008 until the close of business on Friday, 11 July 2008, no transfers between the London and Johannesburg registers will be permitted and from the close of business on Friday, 4 July 2008 until the close of business on Friday, 11 July 2008, no shares may be dematerialised or rematerialised.
John Davidson
General Counsel and Group Company Secretary
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