ABV.C Companhia de Bebidas Das Americas-Ambev CL C

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COMPANHIA DE BEBIDAS DAS AMÉRICAS – AMBEV

CNPJ [National Register of Legal Entities] No. 02.808.708/0001-07

NIRE [Corporate Registration Identification Number] 35.300.157.770

Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of Companhia de Bebidas das Américas – Ambev (the “Company”), held on September 26, 2013, drawn up in summary form.   

1.             Date, time and venue :  On September 26, 2013, starting at 6:00 p.m., at the Company’s headquarters, located in the City of São Paulo, State of São Paulo, at Rua Dr. Renato Paes de Barros, 1017, 4th floor.

2.             Attendance :  Messrs . Victorio Carlos De Marchi and Carlos Alves de Brito , co-Chairmen, and Messrs .  Roberto Moses Thompson Motta, Vicente Falconi Campos, José Heitor Attilio Gracioso, Luis Felipe Pedreira Dutra Leite, Luiz Fernando Ziegler de Saint Edmond, Álvaro Antônio Cardoso de Souza and Paulo Alberto Lemann . 

3.             Board :  Chairman: Victorio Carlos De Marchi ; Secretary: Flávio Gonçalves Pontes Sodré.

4.             Resolutions : It was unanimously and unrestrictedly resolved by the Directors who attended the meeting:

4.1   Preparation of an Extraordinary Balance Sheet . To determine, pursuant to Paragraph 1 of Section 35 of the Company’s By-laws, the preparation of an extraordinary balance sheet as of August 31, 2013.

4.2   Distribution of dividends . To approve the distribution of dividends, to be deducted from the results of the current fiscal year based on the extraordinary balance sheet prepared on August 31, 2013 and attributed to the minimum mandatory dividends for 2013, in the amount of R$0.65 per share of the Company to its sole shareholder, Ambev S.A., in order to provide funds for the dividends distribution to the shareholders of Ambev S.A., approved by its Board of Directors on August 30, 2013 and disclosed to the market on the same day.

4.2.1. The aforementioned payment shall be made as from September 27, 2013, without any monetary adjustment.

5.             Closure :  With no further matters to be discussed, the present Minutes were drawn up and, after being read and approved by all of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors who attended the meeting, were duly executed . 

São Paulo, September 26, 2013.