GO plc – Board Meeting Held

GO announces that during a Board of Directors meeting held earlier today, it was resolved to declare a net interim dividend of €0.3313 per share (gross €0.5097 per share) equivalent to a total net amount of €33,564,165.00 (gross €51,637,177). The interim dividend shall be settled ‘in kind’, by the distribution of GO’s entire shareholding in Malta Properties Company p.l.c. (“MPC”) to GO’s shareholders pro rata to the number of shares held by them in GO.

The declaration of the interim dividend follows the approval by GO shareholders, during an Extraordinary General Meeting held on the 22 July 2015, to spin-off GO’s shareholding in MPC.

The dividend shall be due to all shareholders registered on GO’s Share Register at the Central Securities Depository of the Malta Stock Exchange as at the 23 October 2015.

GO shareholders will receive a share in MPC for every share which they currently hold in GO. To complete this process, GO will be circulating a document to each of its shareholders which needs to be signed and returned to GO by no later than 17 November 2015. Once this document is received by GO, the respective GO shareholder will become a shareholder of MPC.

The Listing Authority has authorised the shares in MPC as admissible to Listing pursuant to the Listing Rules on 16 October 2015. The MPC shares are expected to be admitted to the Official List of the Malta Stock Exchange on the 23 November 2015 and trading is expected to commence on the 24 November 2015. In relation therewith, the Listing Authority has approved a Prospectus dated 16 October 2015 which may be downloaded from MPC’s website (www.maltaproperties.com.mt) as from the 20 October 2015. Copies of the Prospectus can be obtained during office hours from financial intermediaries as from 23 October 2015.  

To view the official company announcement, click here.