Natural Beauty Bio-Technology Ltd. announced consolidated earnings results for the year ended December 31, 2014. For the year, the company reported revenue of HKD 505,761,000 against HKD 439,421,000 a year ago. Profit before tax was HKD 116,274,000 against HKD 83,052,000 a year ago. Profit for the year attributable to owners of the company was HKD 71,480,000 or 3.6 cents basic and diluted per share against HKD 58,269,000 or 2.9 cents basic and diluted per share a year ago. The rise in turnover year-on-year, was mainly due to an increase of HKD 64.4 million in product sales, which segment contributed to 98.6% of its total turnover, as a result of higher store productivity in PRC and Taiwan. The group's capital expenditure of HKD 18.5 million in 2014 was mainly related to the POS system upgrades amounting to HKD 4.7 million and skin test machine (Wood's machine, Iris and PC device) amounting to HKD 5.1 million, production equipment amounting to HKD 2.9 million and IT infrastructure amounting to HKD 1.6 million.

The company proposed final dividend of HKD 0.03188 per share in respect of the year ended December 31, 2014 in the annual general meeting to be held on May 22, 2015 compared to final dividend of HKD 0.0163 per share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2013, amounting to HKD 63,826,978 compared to HKD 32,634,000 a year ago, in aggregate has been proposed by the directors and is subject to approval by the shareholders at the forthcoming annual general meeting. The proposed final dividend, if approved by the shareholders at the forthcoming annual general meeting, will be paid on July 28, 2015 to the shareholders whose names appear on the register of members of the Company on June 5, 2015.