EFG Eurobank Ergasias S.A. announces that the Bank’s Board of Directors, during today’s meeting decided to distribute an interim dividend of €0.36 per share to the shareholders who now number over 280,000, based on the Bank’s net profits for the period 1.1.2006-30.9.2006.
Beneficiaries of the interim dividend will be those shareholders as at November 30th, 2006, and its payment will commence from December 8th, 2006. From December 1st, 2006, the shares will be trading ex-interim dividend 2006.
Investors are reminded that the interim dividend for the fiscal year 2005, paid in December 2005, amounted to €0.30 per share, adjusted for the number of shares issued in 2006 as a result of the capital increase of 2 bonus shares for every 10 shares already held.