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Dividend

The Annual General Meeting, held on 13 September 2007, declared an ordinary dividend of
€ 0.65 per unit, an increase of 8 per cent over the prior year’s level. In addition, the meeting declared that a special dividend of € 0.60 should be paid to unitholders. The total gross dividend thus amounts to € 1.25 per unit (2006: € 1.10 per unit). Withholding tax is payable on the proposed dividend paid by Compagnie Financière Richemont SA, Switzerland as detailed in the table below.

The dividends were paid as follows:

‘A' unit dividend: Monday, 17 September 2007

South African Depository Receipt dividend: Friday, 28 September 2007

The dividend in respect of Richemont ‘A’ units was paid in euros.

The South African Depository Receipt dividend is payable in rand to residents of the South African Common Monetary Area (‘CMA’) but may, dependent upon status, be payable in euros to non-CMA residents. The exchange rate applicable for the conversion of euros to rand for payment of the dividend is ZAR 9.8149: euro 1.

The dividend will be paid as follows: Gross dividend
per unit
Withholding
tax @ 35 %
Net payable
per unit
Ordinary dividend
Richemont SA, Luxembourg
€ 0.5960 - € 0.5960
Compagnie Financière Richemont SA, Switzerland
€ 0.0540 (€ 0.0189) € 0.0351

€ 0.6500 (€ 0.0189) € 0.6311
Special dividend
Richemont SA, Luxembourg
€ 0.6000 - € 0.6000
€ 1.2500 (€ 0.0189) € 1.2311

Dividend history (per unit in €)
Ordinary dividend per unit Special dividend per unit
2007 0.650 0.600
2006 0.600 0.500
2005

0.500

0.500

2004 0.400 -
2003 0.320 -
2002 0.320 -
2001 0.300 -
2000 0.240 -

Dividend and unit enquiries / annual reports


Mr Matthew Kilgarriff
Company Secretary
Tel: +41 (0) 22 721 35 00
Fax: +41 (0) 22 721 35 50