Anicom Holdings, Inc.TSE: 8715

Notice Regarding Dividend of Surplus

· Issued by Anicom Holdings, Inc.

May 12, 2021

Company

Anicom Holdings, Inc.

Representative

Nobuaki Komori,

Representative Director

(Securities Code: 8715,

Tokyo Stock Exchange, First Section)

Inquiries to

Hiroshi Sato,

General Manager, Corporate Planning

Department

Notice Regarding Dividend of Surplus

Anicom Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") hereby gives notice that it has resolved, at a Board of Directors meeting held today that the Company will distribute dividend of surplus with March 31, 2021 as recorded date, as provided below.

This matter will be discussed at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled to be held on June 25, 2021.

1. Summary of the dividend

Previous forecast for year-end

Actual amount for the previous

Resolved amount

dividend

fiscal year

(announced on February 5)

(fiscal year ended March 31, 2020)

Recorded date

March 31, 2021

March 31, 2021

March 31, 2020

Dividend per share

JPY 1.25

-

JPY 5

Total amount of dividend

JPY 101 million

-

JPY 101 million

payouts

Effective date

June 28, 2021

-

June 26, 2020

Source of dividend

Retained earnings

-

Retained earnings

(Note) While the Company conducted a 4-for-1 common stock split effective on October 1, 2020, the dividends per share for the actual previous year-end dividend is figure before the stock split.

2. Reason

The Company recognizes the return of profit to its shareholders as a key management priority and makes it a basic policy to pay ongoing and stable dividends from a medium to long-term perspective while taking into account financial soundness and capital efficiency. As a result of a verification based on these factors, the Company decided to pay JPY 1.25 per share as the annual dividend for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.