Profit Distribution

Basic Policy for Profit Distribution

With the recognition of the importance of the shareholder returns, Takeda's policy is to maintain the stable dividend that is ¥180 per share throughout the fiscal 2013-2015 period.

Dividends per Share

	Interim	Year-end	Annual-Total	Dividended pay-out ratio (consolidated)
FY2004	¥44.00	¥44.00	¥88.00	28.1%
FY2005	¥53.00	¥53.00	¥106.00	30.0%
FY2006	¥60.00	¥68.00	¥128.00	33.2%
FY2007	¥84.00	¥84.00	¥168.00	40.1%
FY2008	¥88.00	¥92.00	¥180.00	62.1%
FY2009	¥90.00	¥90.00	¥180.00	47.7%
FY2010	¥90.00	¥90.00	¥180.00	57.3%
FY2011	¥90.00	¥90.00	¥180.00	114.4%
FY2012	¥90.00	¥90.00	¥180.00	108.3%
FY2013	(projection) ¥90.00	(projection) ¥90.00	(projection) ¥180.00	(projection)  149.6%

Repurchase of Stock

Period of acquisition	Total number of shared acquired(shares)	Total value of acquisition (thousands of Yen)
November 27, 2008 - December 22, 2008	10,885,800	48,703,896
October 21, 2008 - November 25, 2008	5,600,500	25,931,633
October 1, 2008 - October 15, 2008	9,000,000	47,649,334
May 12, 2008 - June 20, 2008	16,994,200	99,999,796
April 1, 2008 - April 24, 2008	11,000,000	57,825,512
August 1, 2007 - August 28, 2007	12,865,400	99,999,289
May 21, 2007 - June 22, 2007	3,631,100	28,562,150
November 30, 2006 - December 22, 2006	818,500	6,111,150
November 7, 2006 - November 28, 2006	5,631,100	41,691,720
October 2, 2006 - October 27, 2006	1,220,200	9,101,506
September 8, 2006 - September 22, 2006	4,482,700	33,581,053
August 1, 2006 - September 6, 2006	5,614,000	43,083,794
May 15, 2006 - June 20, 2006	11,140,000	79,915,854

Cancellation of Own Shares

Cancellation date	Aggregate number of shares to be cancelled	The ratio to the aggregate number of issued shares before cancellation
January 16, 2009	25,486,300	3.13%
July 18, 2008	16,990,000	2.04%
May 23, 2008	57,130,000	6.42%