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Shareholders’ Meeting
The next Annual Shareholders’ Meeting
was held on
Friday, 29 May 2009 at 10:00 AM
at the Pavillon Gabriel,
5, avenue Gabriel,
75008 Paris, France
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Meeting attendance

If you wish to attend the Shareholders’ Meeting

  • If you hold registered shares, you must be shareholder of record at least three business days before the Meeting (i.e. Monday May 25, at midnight Paris time).
  • If you hold bearer shares, you must be shareholder of record in the accounts held by the custodian of your shares at least three business days before the Meeting, (i.e. Monday May 25, at midnight Paris time). You must have the custodian of your shares address a participation notice certifying that the shares belong to you, at least three days before the General Meeting, at Lazard Frères Banque, 121, boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris, France.

Shareholders who wish to attend the Meeting personally should request an entry card from the custodian of their shares.


If you are unable to attend the Shareholders’ Meeting

A shareholder unable to attend the Shareholders’ Meeting may cast his vote:
• either by sending a postal vote,
• or by being represented by another shareholder or by his spouse,
• or by sending a proxy form to the Chairman.

For this:

  • All holders of registered shares will be sent a proxy and a postal voting form.
  • Holders of bearer shares wishing to vote by mail may obtain the voting form by submitting by registered mail with return receipt requested a written request. This written request must be received at least six days before the Meeting, at either Lazard Frères Banque, 121, boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris, France, or the registered office of the Company at 32, rue de Monceau, 75008 Paris, France.
  • Proxy forms drawn in accordance with legal provisions currently in force, must be duly completed and returned at least three days before the Meeting.

Information on dividend payment

The dividend to be distributed will be allocated on June 4, 2009 and will become payable with effect from June 29, 2009.

Moreover, the May 29, 2009 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will make a proposal to give each shareholder the possibility of choosing full payment of the dividend for their shares in new company shares.

The newly issued shares will earn dividends starting on January 1, 2009 and will be fully incorporated into other Company shares. The issue price of the new shares that will be issued as payment of dividends will be equal to 100% of the average of the prices quoted for the twenty trading sessions preceding the day of the decision to pay out dividends, less the net amount of the dividend. The issue price will be rounded up to the nearest euro cent.

If the amount of dividends for which the option is exercised does not correspond to a whole number of shares on the day that the option is exercised, the number of shares given to the shareholder will be rounded down to the nearest whole number and the shareholder will be given the balance in cash.

The share dividend option should be exercised through the financial intermediaries authorized to pay the dividend between June 4, 2009 and June 17, 2009 inclusive. Dividends will be paid in cash only for all options not exercised on this date.

Investor Relations :

N° Vert : 0 800 801 161(Toll Free from France)
or Eurazeo_Investor_Relations@eurazeo.com


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