Dividend

As part of the acceleration of the Vision 2010 – Building on Strengths strategy, DSM announced a new dividend policy. This policy reflects the transformation of DSM’s portfolio and consequently the increased profit stability. DSM aims to provide a stable and preferably rising dividend.

The Annual General Meeting of shareholders decides on the final dividend. The Ex-dividend date is the second business day after the AGM. The dividend record date is three businessdays after the AGM.

Barring unforeseen circumstances DSM pays an interim dividend to holders of ordinary shares after the results of the first half year have been published. This interim dividend is set at one third of the total dividend over the previous year and gives no indication for the total dividend to be paid over the running year. The dividend record date is three businessdays after publication of the H1 results.

We refer you for exact information on these dates to the financial calendar on this website.

It has been decided to pay an unchanged interim dividend of EUR 0.40 per ordinary share for the year 2009. As usual, this represents one third of the total dividend paid for 2008. The interim dividend is no indication of the total dividend for 2009. The interim dividend for 2009 will be paid in cash on 28 August 2009.

The DSM Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 25 March 2009 passed a resolution to declare a dividend for 2008 of EUR 1.20 per ordinary share of EUR 1.50 par value. An interim dividend of EUR 0.40 per ordinary share having been paid on 22 August 2008, the final dividend for 2008 will amount to EUR 0.80 per ordinary share.

This final dividend of EUR 0.80 will be paid out entirely in cash, after deduction of 15% dividend tax, and will be made payable from 21 April 2009. The ex-dividend date on Euronext Amsterdam will be 27 March 2009.

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