Payment of Cash Dividend

14th July, 2014

BEXIMCO PHARMACEUTICALS LTD.

Payment of Cash Dividend

Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited ("BPL" or "Company"; AIM Symbol: BXP) announces that the cash dividend of 10% of the nominal value per ordinary share/GDR, i.e. taka 1 per ordinary share/GDR, for the year 2013, approved by its shareholders in the 38th Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 21 June, 2014, has been deposited with the custodian bank in Dhaka for onward credit to respective GDR holders' accounts.

For further information please visit www.beximco-pharma.com or enquire to: 

Beximco Pharma

Nazmul Hassan MP, Managing Director

Tel: +880 2 861 9151, ext.20080

Daniel Stewart & Company (NOMAD and Broker)

Emma Earl

Paul Shackleton

Tel: +44 (0)20 7776 6550

FTI Consulting

Simon Conway

Victoria Foster Mitchell

Tel: +44 (0)20 3727 1000

Notes to Editors

About Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited

Founded in 1976 and based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Beximco Pharma manufactures and sells generic pharmaceutical formulation products and active pharmaceutical ingredients. The Company also undertakes contract manufacturing for multinational and leading global generic pharmaceutical companies. The Company operates from a 23 acre site in Dhaka and has manufacturing facilities for producing various drugs in different delivery systems such as tablets, capsules, liquids, semi-solids, intravenous fluids, metered dose inhalers, dry powder inhalers, sterile ophthalmic drops, prefilled syringes, injectables, nebulizer solutions, oral soluble films etc. Ensuring access to quality medicines is the powerful aspiration that motivates 3,000 employees of the Company.

Beximco Pharma's state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities are certified by global regulatory authorities of Australia, European Union, and Brazil, among others. The Company's products are sold to retail outlets, medical institutions and other pharmaceutical manufacturers in Bangladesh, in regional markets such as Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar and in other markets overseas, principally in Africa, including Mauritius, Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria, Pacific Island, Latin & Central American countries, Middle East, Central Asia, South East Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines & Hong Kong, and Europe & Austria.