Norilsk Nickel to pay RUB 248.48 per ordinary share as dividends for 2013
On Friday, the annual general meeting of shareholders of MMC Norilsk Nickel took place, the company’s press center says. During the AGM a new Board of Directors was elected and the final dividend for 2013 of RUB 248.48 per ordinary share was approved.
Previously, at the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held on December 20, 2013, it was agreed to pay a dividend on common shares for the nine months of the fiscal year 2013 of RUB 220.70 per ordinary share. Therefore, the total dividend for 2013 is RUB 469.18 per share, which fully meets the targets set out in Norilsk Nickel’s strategy.
Open Joint-Stock Company Mining and Metallurgical Company NORILSK NICKEL is a diversified mining and metallurgical company, the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium and a leading producer of platinum, cobalt, copper and rhodium. In addition, the Company produces gold, silver, iridium, selenium, ruthenium and tellurium.
The production units of MMC Norilsk Nickel’s group in Russia are at the Norilsk Industrial District and the Kola Peninsula, and in Finland, Australia, Botswana and South Africa.