PARIS, June 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
The Annual General Meeting of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
shareholders was held today in Paris. Shareholders present or represented at
the meeting held an aggregate 63.79% of the outstanding shares.
All the resolutions were adopted.
Ms. Anne-Marie-Idrac and Ms. Olivia
Qiu as well as Mr. Denis
Ranque and Mr. Jacques Pestre
were re-elected to the Board.
Shareholders also approved the payment of a dividend of €1.24
per share (unchanged from the previous year), with payment of
50% in cash, and the option for the shareholder of receiving the
remaining 50% in cash or reinvesting it in new shares of Company
stock. Shareholders may exercise their rights between June 10 and June 24, by notifying their
bank or broker. The price of the new shares issued upon
reinvestment of the dividend will be €36.62 after applying the
maximum 10% discount. The ex-dividend date will be June 10 and the dividend will be paid or the
shares delivered as from July 3,
2015.
A webcast of the Annual General Meeting and the results of the
vote on each resolution will be available on the Company's website
(http://www.saint-gobain.com ) as from June
5, 2015.
ABOUT SAINT-GOBAIN
In 2015, Saint-Gobain is celebrating its
350th anniversary, 350 reasons
to believe in the future. Backed by its experience and its capacity
to continuously innovate, Saint-Gobain, the world leader in the
habitat and construction market, designs, manufactures and
distributes high-performance and building materials providing
innovative solutions to the challenges of growth, energy efficiency
and environmental protection. With 2014 sales of
€41 billion, Saint-Gobain operates in 64
countries and has over 180,000
employees. For more information about Saint-Gobain,
visit http://www.saint-gobain.com and
the twitter
account @saintgobain or download the "Saint-Gobain
Shareholder" application for tablet and
smartphone.
Media Relations Analyst/Investor Relations
Gaetano Terrasini +33-1-47-62-32-52
Sophie Chevallon +33-1-47-62-30-48 Vivien Dardel +33-1-47-62-44-29
Susanne Trabitzsch +33-1-47-62-43-25 Marine Huet +33-1-47-62-30-93
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