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Company dividend policy is determined according to the Turkish Law of Commerce, the CMB's legislation
and its regulations and decisions, the tax laws, other relevant legislation, and the Company's articles of
association.
1- Article 28 of the Holding's Articles of Association reads as follows:
Profit will be distributed as outlined below from the net profit stated in the Holding's balance sheet and
reached after deducting the general expenditure of the Company, various amortization costs, and mandatory
taxes. The relevant provisions of the Capital Markets Law and notifications of the Capital Markets Board
will be followed during the process of profit distribution.
First level legal reserves:
a) Legal reserves at a rate of 5% will be allocated.
First Dividend:
b) To the remaining amount, grants delivered during the year, if any, are added, from this total at least
30% first dividends are allocated provided the rate or the amount is not below those set by the Capital
Markets Law.
c) A maximum of 3% of the remaining amount will be allocated to the Tekfen Foundation for Education, Health, Culture, Art and Protection of Natural Habitat.
d) After the above mentioned deductions, the General Assembly has the right to decide on an allocation
of dividends that does not exceed 2% of the remaining profit to members of the Board (in line with the
limits and principles set by the Board).
Second Dividend:
e) The General Assembly is entitled to distribute the amount remaining (after the deduction of the items
outlined in a, b, c, and d, above) from the net profit as second dividends or allocate it as extraordinary
legal reserves.
Second level legal reserves:
f) Subject 3 of paragraph 2 of Article 466 of the Turkish Law of Commerce and the provisions of the paragraph of the same article do not apply to the Holding.
g) No decision may be made to set aside profits for other reserves to transfer profits to the following
year, or to distribute dividends to the founders or dividend right certificate holders, board members
or Company officials, workers or foundations or other similar real/legal entities established for specific
purposes, unless the first dividend is paid as provided and unless the reserves required to be set aside
as required by law have been so set aside.
h) Dividends shall be distributed to all the existing shares as the end of the accounting period without
taking into account the date of issue or acquisition of such shares.
The decision as to how and when the annual profit will be distributed to the shareholders will be decided
by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Board and in accordance with the provisions
of the Turkish Tax Laws and the Capital Markets Law. Profit distributed according to the provisions of the
Articles of Association cannot be recovered.
2- The place and date of dividend payments are set in accordance with Capital Market Board Regulations.
3- Within the framework of Article 29 of the Company's Articles of Association, if the Company General
Assembly so authorizes the Board, interim dividend payments may be made (for that specific year only).
The Capital Markets Law is taken into account during this process.
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