Cairo - Mubasher: Egypt’s cigarette producer Eastern Company (Eastern Tobacco (will pay cash dividends at EGP 10 a share on 22 December.
Shareholders of record on 17 December will be eligible for the dividends.
The company posted net earnings of EGP 1,115 billion for the period ended 30 June 2015, a rise of 27.7% compared with EGP 908.405 million in the same period a year earlier.