MONTERREY, Mexico, April 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte, S.A.B. de C.V., known as OMA, held on April 27, 2007 approved payment of a dividend of Ps. 429.6 million based on 2006 results, and designated eleven board members, and chairmen of the board committees.
After increasing legal reserves, OMA will pay a dividend of Ps. 429.6 million. The payment is equivalent to Ps. 1.07406354582 per share or US$ 4.9032802822 per ADS, based on the current exchange rate of Ps. 10.9525. Each ADS represents 8 Series B shares. The quarterly dividends will be paid in four installments in accordance with the Company's dividend policy.
The shareholders meeting elected Jean Marie Chevallier and Fernando Flores Perez as new members of the board of directors and ratified nine members. Five of the directors are considered independent under both Mexican and U.S. securities laws. The listing of the complete board of directors is attached.
The shareholders also designated the chairmen of the board committees: Luis Guillermo Zazueta as chairman of the audit committee and Alberto Mulas Alonso of the corporate practices committee.
The resolutions of the Shareholders' Meeting are available at http://ir.oma.aero/
About OMA
Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte, S.A.B. de C.V., known as OMA, operates 13 international airports in nine states of central and northern Mexico. OMA's airports serve Monterrey, Mexico's third largest metropolitan area, the tourist destinations of Acapulco, Mazatlan, and Zihuatanejo, and nine other regional centers and border cities. OMA employs over 900 persons in order to offer our passengers and clients airport and commercial services in facilities that comply with all applicable international safety, security, and quality standards. OMA's strategic shareholder members are ICA, Mexico's largest engineering, procurement, and construction company, and Aeroports de Paris, the second largest European airports operator. OMA is listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange (OMA) and on the NASDAQ Global Select Market (OMAB). Please visit our website, http://www.oma.aero/.
This communication may contain forward-looking information and statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. These statements are only predictions based on our current expectations and projections about future events. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the words "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "target," or similar expressions. While OMA's management believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, investors are cautioned that forward-looking information and statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and are generally beyond the control of OMA, that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied or projected by, the forward-looking information and statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed in our Prospectus under the caption "Risk Factors." OMA undertakes no obligation to publicly update its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte, S.A.B. de C.V.
Board of Directors Elected at the Annual Shareholders Meeting
on April 27, 2007
Bernardo Quintana Isaac, Chairman
Luis Fernando Zarate Rocha
Alonso Quintana Kawage
Jose Luis Guerrero Alvarez
Sergio Fernando Montano Leon
Jean Marie Chevallier (Jacques Follain, alternate)
Luis Guillermo Zazueta Dominguez *
Alberto Mulas Alonso *
Salvador Alva *
Manuel Francisco Arce Rincon *
Fernando Flores Perez *
* Independent directors
