Douglas Emmett, Inc. (NYSE: DEI), a real estate investment trust (REIT), announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a 15% increase in its quarterly cash dividend to $0.15 per share, or $0.60 per common share on an annualized basis. The dividend will be paid on April 13, 2012 to shareholders of record as of March 30, 2012.
In addition, Douglas Emmett announced that its Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, May 24, 2012 at the Sheraton Delfina Hotel, located at 530 West Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, California 90405. Shareholders of record as of March 30, 2012 will be entitled to vote in person or by proxy at the meeting.
About Douglas Emmett, Inc.
Douglas
Emmett, Inc. (NYSE: DEI) is a fully integrated, self-administered and
self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), and one of the largest
owners and operators of high-quality office and multifamily properties
located in premier submarkets in Southern California and Hawaii. The
Company's properties are concentrated in ten submarkets – Brentwood,
Olympic Corridor, Century City, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Westwood,
Sherman Oaks/Encino, Warner Center/Woodland Hills, Burbank and Honolulu.
The Company focuses on owning and acquiring a substantial share of
top-tier office properties and premier multifamily communities in
neighborhoods that possess significant supply constraints, high-end
executive housing and key lifestyle amenities. The Company maintains a
website at www.douglasemmett.com.
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Douglas Emmett's business activities are forward-looking statements
based on the beliefs of, assumptions made by, and information currently
available to us about known and unknown risks, trends, uncertainties and
factors that are beyond our control or ability to predict. Although we
believe that our assumptions are reasonable, they are not guarantees of
future performance and some will inevitably prove to be incorrect. As a
result, our actual future results can be expected to differ from our
expectations, and those differences may be material. Accordingly,
investors should use caution in relying on forward-looking statements to
anticipate future results or trends. For a discussion of some of the
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from
those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in
our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission.
Contacts:
Douglas Emmett, Inc.
Mary Jensen, Vice President – Investor
Relations
310-255-7751
mjensen@douglasemmett.com
