SET Announcements
Additional Dividend Payment for year 2009
25 March 2010
No. Esso/SET/002/53
March 25, 2010
Subject: Additional Dividend Payment for year 2009
To: President of The Stock Exchange of Thailand
Dear Sir,
Esso (Thailand) Public Company Limited would like to notify the Stock Exchange
of Thailand
that the Board of Directors' Meeting No. 2/2010 held on March 25, 2010
approved the
significant matters as follows:
1. The following matters are approved for submission to the shareholders
for approval
at the 2010 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders:
(1) The allocation for reserve under Section 116 of the Public
Limited Company
Act B.E. 2535 in the amount of Baht 205,013,549; and
(2) Payment of an additional dividend of Baht 0.25 per share for
year 2009 to all
eligible shareholders whose names appear in the register of
shareholders on
the Record Date and the dividend payment date be May 26, 2010.
Note: The individual shareholders will not be able to claim a
tax credit under
Section 47 bis of the Revenue Code with respect to this
dividend because the
net profit from which this dividend is paid has been
completely offset by a
net loss carried forward from prior accounting periods not
exceeding 5 years
for corporate income tax purposes.
2. The Record Date for ascertaining entitlement to an additional dividend
is May 7, 2010
and the share register book closing for collecting the name of
shareholders pursuant
to the Securities and Exchange Act, Section 225 is May 10, 2010.
Please be informed accordingly.
Yours truly,
Esso (Thailand) Public Company Limited
............................................................
(Mr. Robert Michael Cooper)