Retail Holdings N.V. Announces Dividend Record Date
CURACAO, Netherlands Antilles, June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Retail Holdings N.V. (“ReHo” or the “Company”) (Pink Sheets: RHDGF) announced today that the Company’s Annual General Meeting will be held in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, on July 19, 2007. Assuming, as expected, that Shareholders at the Meeting accept the recommendation of the Board of Directors to pay a special dividend of $1.00 pr Common Share, representing a repayment from paid-in surplus, the record date for the dividend will be July 19, 2007.
About Retail Holdings
The Company is a holding company with three principal assets: 1) a 56.8% equity interest in Singer Asia Limited, (“Singer Asia”), a distributor of consumer durable products in selected emerging markets in Asia, with consumer credit and other financial services available to qualified customers; 2) seller notes, primarily arising from the sale of the Singer(R) world-wide sewing business and trademark; and 3) cash and cash equivalents. The Company has no operating activities other than those carried out through Singer Asia.
The Company is a Netherlands Antilles public company which is the successor company to the Singer Company N.V. and its predecessor companies. The Company, formerly known as Singer N.V., changed its name to Retail Holdings N.V. following the sale of the sewing machine business and the Singer(R) trademark in September 2004.
Price quotations for the Company’s shares are available on the “Pink Sheets” quotation service under the symbol “RHDGF.” Brokers should be able to continue trading ReHo’s shares using the “Pink Sheets” quotation service as long as the Company is current in submitting to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission the materials that it makes available to its shareholders or is required to file under its own country jurisdiction. Even to the extent that quotations on the “Pink Sheets” service continue, there is no assurance that there will be adequate liquidity or that there will not be wide swings in prices and significant differences between “bid” and “asked” prices, which will make trading difficult and could cause prices for the Company’s shares to deviate substantially from their theoretical inherent value.
Additional financial and other information about the Company, including: a copy of ReHo’s audited consolidated financial statements for the twelve months ended December 31, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2001 and for the three months ended December 31, 2000, together with the Auditor’s Reports thereon; the 2006 Annual Report dated May 2007, and the prior Disclosure Statements and Reports dated April 2006, April 2005, April 2004, April 2003, May 2002 and September 2001; and copies of all semi-annual and quarterly reports and press releases since the conclusion of the Chapter 11 proceedings in September 2000, may be found at the Corporate/Investor section of the Company’s website at http://www.retailholdings.com/.
Statements made herein with respect to the Company’s current plans, estimates, strategies and beliefs and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements about the future performance of the Company. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those using words such as believe, expect, anticipate, plans, strategy, prospects, forecast, estimate, project, may or might, and words of similar meaning in connection with a discussion of future operations, financial performance, financial position, capital resources, and strategy and plans and objectives of management. From time to time, oral or written forward-looking statements may also be included in other materials released to the public. These statements are based on management’s assumptions and beliefs which are expressed in light of the information available to management at the time. The ultimate outcome in many cases is outside the Company’s control. The Company cautions you that no assurance can be given that expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements will prove to have been correct, that a number of important risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements, and, therefore, you should not rely on any obligation of the Company to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. The Company disclaims any such obligation. Risks and uncertainties that might affect the Company include, but are not limited to: general economic conditions, particularly in Asia, including levels of consumer spending; exchange rate, particularly between the US dollar and the currencies in which the Company makes significant sales or in which the Company’s assets and liabilities are denominated; the Company’s ability to continue to win acceptance of its products and services, which are offered in highly competitive markets; the payment at maturity of the unsecured subordinated promissory notes issued to the Company by KSIN Holdings, Ltd. and the secured promissory notes issued to the Company by AON International and Singer Jamaica; continuing relationships with financial institutions, suppliers and other creditors; and the outcome of contingencies.
Retail Holdings N.V.
CONTACT: Amy Pappas, +1-914-241-3404, for Retail Holdings N.V.
Web site: http://www.retailholdings.com/
