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PFG - Pioneer Food Group - Interim Dividend Declaration For The Six Months
Ended 31 March 2008
PIONEER FOOD GROUP LIMITED
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration number 1996/017676/06)
JSE share code: PFG
ISIN: ZAE000118279
("Pioneer Foods" or "the company")
INTERIM DIVIDEND DECLARATION FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 31 MARCH 2008
It is the intention of Pioneer Foods to release the company`s interim results
for the six months ended 31 March 2008 on or about Tuesday, 27 May 2008 ("the
interim results announcement").
Due to the proposed rights offer of which the salient dates and times were
released on the Securities Exchange News Service on Friday, 9 May 2008 and
also in order to comply with the prescribed number of trading days between
the dividend declaration date and record date in terms of the Listings
Requirements of the JSE Limited ("JSE"), this dividend has to be declared
before the interim results announcement.
Shareholders are advised that participants in the proposed rights offer
therefore will not be eligible to receive the interim dividend payment.
Accordingly, notice is hereby given that an interim dividend of 30 cents per
share is declared and payable to shareholders recorded in the register of the
company at the close of business on the Friday, 13 June 2008 (2007: 27
cents).
The salient dates pertaining to the interim dividend are as follows:
Last day to trade cum Friday, 6 June 2008
dividend
Trading commences ex dividend Monday, 9 June 2008
Record date Friday, 13 June 2008
Payment date Thursday, 3 July 2008
No share certificates may be dematerialised or rematerialised between Monday,
9 June 2008 and Friday, 13 June 2008, both dates inclusive.
Shareholders will have their account with their Central Securities Depository
Participant or broker credited on the payment date.
As the interim results for Pioneer, on which the interim dividend declaration
is based, has not been released at the date of this announcement, the
dividend declaration constitutes a profit forecast in terms of the Listings
Requirements of the JSE.
Shareholders are therefore advised that the forecast information has not been
reviewed or reported on by Pioneer Foods` auditors.
Paarl
22 May 2008
Sponsor
Barnard Jacobs Mellet Corporate Finance (Proprietary) Limited
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