ESSENTIAL FACT
SMU S.A
Registration in the Securities Registry No. 1076.
Santiago, November 14, 2022
Ms. Solange Berstein Jáuregui, President of the Financial Market Commission:
Ref.: Distribution of provisional dividend and renewal of the Share Buyback Program.
From our consideration:
By means of the present, duly authorized for this purpose and by virtue of the provisions of Article 9 and second paragraph of Article 10 of Law No. 18,045, on the Securities Market, and in General Standard No. 30 of the Commission for the Financial Market (hereinafter the “Commission”), I inform you that, by resolution of the Board of Directors of SMU S.A. (hereinafter “the Company”), adopted at an extraordinary meeting held today, November 14, 2022, the following was agreed:
Distribute to all shareholders as a provisional dividend the total amount of Ch$22,008,184,123.-, which corresponds to a dividend of Ch$3.81874 per share, charged to the profits of the year 2022. This interim dividend corresponds to 75% of the profits of the third quarter of this year. The payment of this dividend will be made as of December 7, 2022 to the shareholders registered in the Shareholders’ Registry of the Company on the fifth business day prior to the date established for its payment.
In accordance with the provisions of Circular No. 660 of this Commission, we attach hereto Exhibit No. 1 with the pertinent information regarding the dividend.
On the other hand, in relation to the Share Acquisition Program of its own issue (hereinafter, the “Program”) approved by the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting, on April 21, 2022, the Board of Directors of the Company, after evaluating the convenience of continuing with a new period, agreed today, to extend the validity of the Program for 12 months. as of November 30 of this year, maintaining the conditions of the Program informed in the Essential Fact of May 30, 2022. At the end of the indicated period, the Board of Directors will evaluate the advisability of continuing with a new period for the execution of the Program.
Yours sincerely yours,
ACE
Marcelo Galvez Saldías
General Manager
SMU S.A.
C.C.: Santiago Stock Exchange – Santiago Stock Exchange
Bolsa Electrónica de Chile, Chilean Stock Exchange
BICE Bank
Banco de Chile
CIRCULAR N° 660
FORM NO. 1
DISTRIBUTION OF DIVIDENDS
Original information: YES (yes/no)
Identification of the company and the movement
UK: 76.012.676-4
Name of the company SMU S.A.
Reg. Number of Values: 1.076
Stock exchange code: SMU
Agreement and amount of dividend
Date of agreement: 14/11/22
Taking of the agreement: 3
Dividend amount: $22,008,184,123.-
Shares and shareholders with rights
Number of shares: 5.763.205.697
Nature of the dividend
Dividend type: 1
Year-end: 30/09/22 (DD MM YYY)
Payment method: 1.
Shipping date: 14/11/22 (D MM YYY)
Series affects: UNICA
Single. mov.: 11
(1: General Board of Action; 2: Extraordinary Board of Action; 3: Board Meeting).
Currency type: $
Deadline: 01/12/22 (DD MM AA)
(1: Provisional; 2: Minimum mandatory def.; 3: Additional or eventual definitive).
(1: In money; 2: Optional in money or shares of the issue itself; 3: Optional in money or shares of another company; 4: Other modality).
5. Payment of the dividend in cash (either in cash or optionally in cash or shares).
5.01 Cash payment: $3.81874/acc.
5.02 Type of currency: $
5.03 Payment Date: 07/12/22 (DD MM AA)
6. Distribution of the optional dividend in shares
6.01 Option start date: (DD MM YYYYY)
6.02 Option expiration date: (DD MM YYYYY)
6.03 Title delivery date: (DD MM YYYYY)
6.04 Series to be opted: (only if the option is on shares of the issue itself)
6.05 Post-issue shares: (only if the option is on shares of the issue itself)
6.06 R.U.T. soc. issuer: (only if the option is on shares owned by the company)
6.07 Bag code:
6.08 Shares factor: shares to be received for a share w/right
6.09 Share price: ___
6.10 Type of Currency. $
7. Remarks
The reporting company, SMU S.A., is an open stock corporation.
The publication of the notice of this dividend will be made in the newspaper “La Tercera”, in its section “El Pulso”, on November 16, 2022.
The total amount of the dividend of Ch$22,008,184,123 will be charged to the Accumulated Profits equity account.
Shareholders may choose one of the following alternatives for the payment of dividends:
One) Deposit in a bank current account, whose holder is the shareholder.
Two) Deposit in a bank savings account held by the shareholder.
Three) Withdrawal of a virtual sight voucher at any of the branches of Banco Crédito Inversiones, Bci, throughout the country, for a period of 90 days.
In the case of the modalities of collection of numbers One) and Two) the current or savings bank accounts indicated by the shareholder may be from any place in the country, in order to facilitate the collection of their dividends to those shareholders residing outside the city of Santiago.
Likewise, in the case of modalities One) and
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