Tiso Blackstar Group SE Notice of AGM & Publication of Annual Report (1073N)

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RNS Number : 1073N

Tiso Blackstar Group SE

21 October 2016

Tiso Blackstar Group SE

(Incorporated in Malta)

(Company number SE 4)

(registered as an external company with limited liability in the Republic of South Africa under registration number 2011/008274/10)

LSE Ticker: TBGR

JSE Share code: TBG

ISIN: MT0000620113

("Tiso Blackstar" or the "Company" or the "Group")

21 October 2016

Notice of Annual General Meeting and publication of Annual Report

Tiso Blackstar announces that the Notice of the Annual General Meeting has been posted to its shareholders today. A copy of the Notice is available on the Company's website (www.tisoblackstar.com).

Tiso Blackstar also announces that the Company's Annual General Meeting will be held at its registered office at 3rd Floor, Avantech Building, St Julian's Road, San Gwann, SGN 2805 Malta on Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 10.00 a.m. (CET).

Tiso Blackstar further announces that its Annual Report for the year ending 30 June 2016 will be available on the Company's website (www.tisoblackstar.com) on Friday, 21 October 2016.

Subject to shareholder approval, a final dividend of 4.47275 South African cents per share will be paid during January 2017. The exchange rates have been fixed for the calculation of the Euro and Pounds Sterling equivalents based on the closing exchange rates on Monday, 17 October 2016 of EUR1=ZAR17.236 and GBP1=ZAR15.547.

The final dividend will be paid from income reserves in accordance with the salient dates and times set out below:

 
 Last day to trade on            Friday, 23 December 2016 
  the South African register 
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 Trading ex-dividend               Wednesday, 28 December 
  commences on the South                             2016 
  African register 
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 Trading ex-dividend                Thursday, 29 December 
  commences on the UK                                2016 
  register 
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 Record date for shareholders    Friday, 30 December 2016 
  recorded on the UK and 
  South African registers 
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 Date of payment                Thursday, 19 January 2017 
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Share certificates may not be dematerialised or rematerialised between Wednesday, 28 December 2016 and Friday, 30 December 2016, both days inclusive, and transfers between the UK register and the South African register may not take place during that period. Dividend tax will be withheld from the amount of the gross dividend of 4.47275 South African cents per share paid to South African shareholders at the rate of 15% unless a shareholder qualifies for exemption. After the dividend tax has been withheld, the net dividend will be 3.80184 South African cents per share. There are no other taxes (foreign or otherwise) to be withheld from the dividend. The Company had a total of 268,291,260 shares in issue (which includes 1,067,925 shares held in treasury). The dividend will be distributed by Tiso Blackstar Group SE (Malta tax registration number 995944033) and is regarded as a foreign dividend.

 
 For further information, please contact: 
 Tiso Blackstar Group 
  SE                        Leanna Isaac             + 356 2137 3360 
 ZAI Corporate Finance      Peter Trevelyan-Clark    [phone] 
  Limited                    Dugald Carlean           2220 
 PSG Capital Proprietary                             [phone] 
  Limited                   David Tosi                9602 
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