Comparative store sales (stores open for more than a year) increased by 8.2 percent for the year and by 6.8 percent for the fourth quarter.
The Board increased the quarterly dividend by 25 percent from $0.16 per share to $0.20 per share. The dividend will be payable on April 26, 2006 to shareholders of record as of April 12, 2006.
The Board announced that the number of directors was increased to ten and that Maryse Bertrand had been elected to the Board. Ms. Bertrand is a senior partner in the Montreal office of the law firm Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP.
La Senza Corporation, headquartered in Montreal, is a specialty retailer with 305 corporate owned stores as at January 28, 2006, offering fashionable lingerie and sleepwear sold in its 227 "La Senza" and "Silk & Satin" stores, and fashionable apparel for girls sold in its 78 "La Senza Girl" stores. Stores are located in every province in Canada. In addition, 272 independently owned "La Senza" and "La Senza Girl" stores are operating in 27 other countries under license.
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