18th Jul 2007 09:00
SABMiller PLC18 July 2007 SABMILLER PLC FINAL DIVIDEND CURRENCY CONVERSION - STERLING 18 July 2007 In its Preliminary Results announcement for the year ended 31 March 2007,published on 17 May 2007, SABMiller plc announced that the exchange rates to beused to determine the Sterling and Rand equivalent of the final dividend of 36.0US cents per share would be calculated using the exchange rates prevailing on 28June 2007 for the Rand equivalent and 17 July 2007 for the Sterling equivalent. On 29 June 2007, the Company announced that the rate of exchange determined forconverting to South African Rands was $:R = 7.085625, resulting in an equivalentfinal dividend of 255.08250 SA cents per share. The rate of exchange determined on 17 July 2007 for converting to Sterling isGBP:US$ = 2.04588 resulting in an equivalent final dividend of 17.59634 UK penceper share. The dividend will be payable on 7 August 2007 to all shareholders registered onthe London and Johannesburg registers on 13 July 2007. The ex-dividend tradingdates were 11 July 2007 on the London Stock Exchange and 9 July 2007 on the JSELimited Shareholders will be asked to approve this proposal at the annual generalmeeting scheduled for 31 July 2007. John DavidsonGeneral Counsel and Group Company Secretary This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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