The share price used to calculate entitlements under the Fletcher Building Limited Dividend Reinvestment Plan has been set at $8.3648.
This is the weighted average sale price of the Fletcher Building shares sold on the New Zealand Exchange in the five business days immediately following the dividend record date of 22 September 2006 as described in the Offer Document for the Dividend Reinvestment Plan.
Shareholders who have elected to participate in the Dividend Reinvestment Plan reinvest their dividends to receive additional shares, rather than cash. The new shares will be allocated on the dividend date, 12 October 2006. The number of Fletcher Building shares to which participants are entitled is the total of the net dividend remittance per share which would otherwise have been payable to participants, divided by 8.3648.
For New Zealand resident shareholders, full tax credits are attached to the dividend and no resident withholding tax is applicable.
For non-residents, the dividend includes a mixture of dividend withholding payment credits and imputation credits. The net dividend remittance per share includes the dividend withholding payment tax refund and a supplementary dividend equivalent to the New Zealand non-resident withholding tax on that part of the dividend with imputation credits attached.
For Australian resident shareholders no franking credits are available in respect of this dividend. The dividend remittance is subject to the 15% New Zealand non-resident withholding tax. An illustration of the calculation of the net dividend remittance is included in the June 2006 annual report, and is available on the company’s website.
Australian residents are paid in Australian dollars which have been converted using an exchange rate of NZ$1.00 = A$0.87265.
Martin Farrell
Company Secretary
Phone: +64 9 525 9091
Fax: +64 9 525 9030