Ichikoh Industries : Notice of Interim Dividends

	Aug 8, 2022
Company Name	Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.
Representative Director,	Christophe Vilatte
President & CEO
TSE ticker	7244 TSE Prime
Contact	General Manager of Corporate
	Planning Department
	Masaki Takamori
	TEL [phone]

Notice of Interim Dividends

We would like to announce that we have resolved at BOD today to pay interim dividends from retained earnings as of June 30, 2022.

1.	Interim Dividends
(1)	Description of Interim Dividends
			Most recent forecast
		Dividends	of dividends (released	Previous Period
			on May 21, 2022)
	Ex-dividend date	Jun.30, 2022	Same as left	Jun.30, 2021
	Cash dividends	4.50 yen	Same as left	3.50 yen
	per share
	Amount of	432 million yen	－	336 million yen
	dividend paid
	Effective Date	September 6, 2022	－	September 6, 2021
	Source of	Retained earnings	－	Retained earnings
	dividends

(2) Background

Distribution of midterm dividends is 4.5 yen per share in line with the dividend forecast announced on May 12, 2022, which increased by one yen from last year.

(Reference) Year-end dividends forecast

We would like to keep the year-end dividends forecast as following chart.

		Dividends per shares (yen)
	Interim		Year-end		Year total
	dividend		dividend
Previous forecast	4.50		4.50		9.00
Forecast on this time			4.50		9.00
Result in this fiscal year	4.50
Result of last year (Dec. 2021）	3.50		3.50		7.00

Year-end dividend forecast has not been changed from the forecast announced on May 12, 2022.

（Reference）Evolution of dividends (yen)

	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
	Dec.	Dec.	Dec.	Dec.	Dec.
	12 months	12 months	12 months	12 months	12 months
	（Result）	（Result）	（Result）	（Result）	（Plan）
Interim	2.50	3.50	1.00	3.50	4.50
dividend
Year-end	4.50	3.50	2.50	3.50	4.50
dividend
Year total	7.00	7.00	3.50	7.00	9.00
Payout ratio	3.9%	14.7%	11.8%	16.9%	17.0%

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