Blue Bird Taxi Owned By Conglomerate Purnomo Prawiro Willing To Divide Dividends Of IDR 90.7 Billion Even Though Last Year Loss Of IDR 161.35 Billion

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JAKARTA - PT Blue Bird Tbk (BIRD) will distribute blessings to its shareholders in the form of dividends. In fact, Blue Bird still recorded a loss of IDR 161.35 billion in the 2020 financial year.

However, the taxi company owned by the Purnomo Prawiro conglomerate still has an unrestricted retained earnings balance of IDR 2.32 trillion at the end of December 2020. From this fund, it will be taken as dividends for shareholders.

This Blue Bird dividend distribution has received the approval of the annual general meeting of shareholders on August 27, 2021. The Blue Bird dividend value is IDR 90.07 billion. The amount of this dividend is equivalent to Rp36 per share.

Quoted from the information disclosure page on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) Friday, September 3, the following is the BIRD dividend distribution schedule:

- Cum dividend in regular market and negotiated market: September 6, 2021

- Ex dividend on regular market and negotiated market: 7 September 2021

- Cum dividend on cash market: September 8, 2021

- Ex dividend on cash market: September 9, 2021

- Recording date: September 8, 2021

- Dividend payment: September 24, 2021