Carreras declared a special capital cash distribution of $1.34 per stock unit to be paid on July 31, 2014 to stockholders on July 18, 2014. Ex-dividend date July 16, 2014. The funds out of which the payment is being made come from proceeds received from the liquidation of a subsidiary, pending the granting of a transfer tax exemption pursuant to the Transfer Tax Act the company said in a release to the Jamaica Stock Exchange. The special capital cash distribution will brings the total payments the company made to shareholders since August last year to $8.89.
A special capital cash distribution of $1.18 was paid in January this year, the company also paid an interim dividend of $1.75 per stock unit on June 26, $1.62 per share. On March 13 they paid a dollar per share as well as in August and November last year.
New Transport paid| New Transport paid $6.90 per share capital dividend on the June 30 to its shareholders. New transport was the company formed after Lascelles’ shares were sold to Campari in 2012. The company was formed to hold the assets that were not sold at the time with previous Lascelles’ shareholders getting shares in the company in proportion to what they held before. The company also received some distributions from Campari based on the agreement that was struck. It’s unclear if this latest payment comes from sale of the assets taken over by the company or from Lascelles.