Brother takes a positive approach to profit-sharing, while improving corporate value.

In order to build long-term relations with shareholders, the Brother Group is regularly taking steps to improve corporate value and has actively devised a profit distribution strategy that includes concrete numerical figures for dividends.
From this point forward, we will put efforts into upgrading IR communications and improving capital efficiency so that shareholders and investors can better understand Brother.

Profits plummeted on the sudden deterioration of the global economy, nonetheless Brother paid, as originally planned, an annual dividend of JPY 26 per share (JPY 24 in ordinary dividend and JPY 2 in commemorative dividend in recognition of the company's 100th anniversary) in FY2008, representing an increase of JPY 4 over the previous year and 45.8% consolidated dividend payout ratio. Moreover, Brother increased frequency of the publication of its shareholder newsletter from twice to four times a year, and reported corporate information and business performance to investors at branch offices of securities companies, in order to deepen the understanding of the Brother Group amongst shareholders and investors.