Produce multi-national Fyffes has announced changes to its ordinary dividends payments schedule, as a result of the company's change in accounting record date and the conversion of its preference shares into ordinary shares on November 30.

The board of directors has declared a second interim ordinary dividend of 2.7921 euro cents per share to be paid on January 9, 2002 to ordinary shareholders on the register at close of business on October 19, 2001. This will be subject to Irish withholding tax rules. The board also intends to declare a final ordinary dividend, reduced in proportion to take account of the second interim dividend, of 0.7883 euro cents per share to be paid after the agm in May next year. The total ordinary dividend for the year to December 31, 2001 will be 4.73 euro cents per share, some 10 per cent up on last year.

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