Dividend Declaration

RNS Number : 1306J

Bank of Georgia Holdings PLC

09 June 2014

 



                     London, 9 June 2014

Dividend Announcement

On 28 May 2014, the shareholders of Bank of Georgia Holdings PLC (the Company) (LSE: BGEO LN), the holding company of JSC Bank of Georgia (the Bank), Georgia's leading bank, approved the declaration of a final dividend of Georgian Lari 2.0 per share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2013, payable to ordinary shareholders of the Company in British Pounds Sterling pursuant to the following timetable:

Ex-Dividend Date:                                4 June 2014

Record Date:                                        6 June 2014

Currency Conversion Date:                   9 June 2014

Payment Date:                                     18 June 2014

The Company hereby confirms that the National Bank of Georgia Georgian Lari/British Pounds Sterling exchange rate as of 9 June 2014 is 2.9815 and shall be used to pay dividends to ordinary shareholders of the Company on 18 June 2014.

Those shareholders who have not provided their appropriate bank account details to Computershare Investor Services PLC for payment of the dividend will be paid the dividend by cheque in British Pounds Sterling.

Name of authorised official of issuer responsible for making notification:

Kate Bennett Rea, Company Secretary

About Bank of Georgia Holdings PLC

Bank of Georgia Holdings PLC is a UK-incorporated holding company of Bank of Georgia. Bank of Georgia is the leading Georgian bank, based on total assets (with a 34.1% market share), total loans (with a 31.7% market share) and client deposits (with a 30.2% market share) as of 31 March 2014, all data based on standalone financial information filed by banks in Georgia with the National Bank of Georgia. The Bank offers a broad range of corporate banking, retail banking, wealth management, brokerage and insurance and healthcare services to its clients. As of 31 March 2014, the Bank served approximately 1.3 million client accounts through one of the largest distribution networks in Georgia, with 203 branches, the country's largest ATM network, comprising 497 ATMs, 1,423 Express pay (self-service) terminals and a full-service remote banking platform and a modern call center.

Bank of Georgia has, as of the date hereof, the following credit ratings:

Standard & Poor's	'BB-/B'
FitchRatings	'BB-/B'
Moody's	'B1/NP' (FC) & 'Ba3/NP' (LC)

For further information, please visit www.bgh.co.uk, www.bog.ge/ir or contact: 

Irakli Gilauri	Nikoloz Gamkrelidze	Macca Ekizashvili
Chief Executive Officer	Deputy CEO, Finance	Head of Investor Relations
[phone]	[phone]	[phone]
[e-mail]	[e-mail]	[e-mail]

This news report is presented for general informational purposes only and should not be construed as an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities

 

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