Chile: Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (CCU) announces board election and payment of definitive dividend
CCU informs the renewal of its Board of Directors agreed by the Regular Stockholders’ Meeting, in its press release of April 19. The following are the members of the new Board, which were elected for a three-year term:
Andrónico Luksic
Guillermo Luksic
Giorgio Maschietto
Manuel José Noguera
Carlos Olivos
Philippe Pasquet
Francisco Pérez
Alberto Sobredo
Massimo von Wunster
Additionally, the Regular Stockholders’ Meeting, approved the distribution, with charge to year 2006’s net income, of a Definitive Dividend Nº233 which amounts to Ch$77.62144 per share (Ch$388.1072 per ADR), totaling Ch$24,722,651,569. This dividend will be paid from April 27, 2007 and distributed among its 318,502,872 shares to the shareholders of record as on April 21, 2007.
About Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A.
CCU is a diversified beverage company operating principally in Chile and Argentina. CCU is the largest Chilean brewer, the second-largest Argentine brewer, the thirdlargest Chilean soft drink producer, the second-largest Chilean wine producer, the largest Chilean mineral water producer, one of the largest pisco producer and also participates in the confectionary industry in Chile. The Company has licensing and/or joint venture arrangements with Heineken Brouwerijen B.V., Anheuser-Busch Incorporated, PepsiCo Inc., Paulaner Brauerei AG, Schweppes Holdings Limited and Guinness Brewing Worldwide Limited.
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