Announcement of Revision to Year-End Dividend Forecast (Dividend Increase)

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Tokyo, March 14, 2006 - Impress Holdings, Inc. (TSE: 9479), announced today that it has revised its year-end forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2006 (fiscal 2005) as follows.

1. Reason for the Revision
As announced on May 12, 2005, the Company's dividend payout benchmark from the current year will be 20% of parent net income for the term, and the Company intends to pay a dividend based on this benchmark while also taking consolidated results into account. In light of various factors including recent trends in Group earnings, the Company is revising its forecast for the year-end dividend per share.

2. Details of the Revision
(Dividend per share forecast for fiscal year to March 2006)

	Interim Dividend	Year-End Dividend	Annual Dividend
Previous forecast (Announced May 26, 2005)	-	116.67 yen	116.67 yen
Current revised forecast	-	160.00 yen	160.00 yen
(Reference) Dividend for fiscal year to March 2005	-	-	-

3. Changes in Special Benefits for Shareholders
As announced on September 8, 2005, special benefits will be granted to shareholders once each year as of the end of the first half of the fiscal year (the next will be for shareholders of record, including beneficiary shareholders, as of September 30, 2006), and those special benefits will be "bonus shopping points at Impress Direct (the Impress Group's online shopping site) in an amount corresponding to the number of shares held." Accordingly, there will be no special benefits granted to shareholders of record, including beneficiary shareholders, as of March 31, 2006.
The number of points and other specific details of special benefits to shareholders will be announced by a press release or other means when they are decided.