The share price used to calculate entitlements under the Fletcher Building Limited Dividend Reinvestment Plan has been set at $7.8044.
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 23 September 2005 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, 13 October 2005. 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 7.8044.
For New Zealand resident shareholders, full dividend withholding payment credits are attached to the dividend and no resident withholding tax is applicable.
For non-residents, the net dividend remittance per share includes the dividend withholding payment tax refund. For Australian resident shareholders no franking credits are available in respect of this dividend. The dividend remittance, including the dividend withholding payment tax refund, is subject to the 15% New Zealand non-resident withholding tax.
Martin Farrell
Company Secretary
Phone: +64 9 525 9091
Fax: +64 9 525 9030