Lithuania: Svyturys-Utenos Alus, the largest by sales Lithuania's beer producer controlled by Scandinavia's Baltic Beverages Holding (BBH), will pay 90.388 million litas (EUR 26.2 million), or 3.83 litas per share, in dividends for 2004, Baltic News said on March 30. The beer group posted 35.136 million litas in audited net earnings for last year. Shareholders backed the dividend proposal at a general shareholders' meeting on Tuesday, March 29.

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