Any shareholder may attend the Annual General Meeting so long as he holds at least one share. Shareholders have to hold an admission card or a bearer statement (attestation de participation) along with a proof of identity to be admitted to attend and vote.

You may personally attend the Annual General Meeting or, be represented by giving proxy to any other natural person or legal entity of your choice. You may also vote by mail or proxy.
However, proof of your identity is required and you will need to prove your identity as a shareholder at least 3 days prior to the Annual General Meeting, this being no later than April 24, 2012.

• Registered shareholders, you will need to list all registered securities with CACEIS.
   
• Bearer shareholders, you need to ask the financial institution that manages your PPR share account for a holdings statement attesting that the shares will not be traded until the Annual General Meeting. Following this, you will need to send back the document to CACEIS by the aforementioned date.

A meeting notice had been published in the French Bulletin for Mandatory Legal Announcements (BALO) on March 21, 2012.
 
Invitation request
Should you wish to attend the Annual General Meeting, you must ask for an admission card that specifies your name, which will be immediately sent to you by post.
 
    * Registered shareholders, you can send a request to:
CACEIS Corporate Trust
14 rue Rouget de Lisle
92862 Issy-Les-Moulineaux Cedex 9

Tél : +33(0)1 57 78 34 34
Fax : +33(0)1 57 78 32 19 
 
If you have not received it on April 26, 2012 at 00h00 your status as a registered shareholder will enable you to attend the meeting by simply presenting proof of your identity at the appropriate desk in the meeting room.
 
    * Bearer shareholders, you can do the request to your financial institution in charge of your PPR titles account, which need to provide CACEIS a holdings statement no later than 3 days before the General meeting.
If on April 26, 2012 at 00h00, CET, you have not received your admission card, you may ask for a statement of your holding from your financial institution that will then be directly delivered to you.
 
In case you cannot come to the Annual General Meeting
* Registered Shareholders
The voting form for voting by mail or proxy will be sent to you along with the General meeting notice. This form must be received by CACEIS at least 2 days before the meeting date in order to be counted.

* Bearer shareholders
You can fill in a voting form request and forward this to your financial institution or to PPR headquarters by post with return receipt six days before the meeting date at the very latest; and send it back along with the participation certificate. Then, your financial institution will send the completed form to CACEIS.
 
The voting form along with the statement of holding must be received by CACEIS at least 2 days before the meeting date in order to be counted.
Proxies granted for this meeting are valid for any further meetings which may be convened with the same agenda and may be cancelled by the shareholders in the same form as was required for the appointment of their proxy.
Notifications of the appointment and cancellation of proxies can also be given electronically, in the following way:

* Pure registered shareholders:
- must send an e-mail to the address:  AG2012proxy@ppr.com.
This e-mail must contain the following information: Surname, forename, address  of the principal, and the surname, forename and address of the proxy;
- must send their e-mail with an electronic copy of the duly signed voting form.

* Bearer shareholders or administered registered shareholders:
- must send an e-mail to the address : AG2012proxy@ppr.com.
This e-mail must contain the following information: Surname, forename, address and bank references of the principal, and the surname, forename and address of the proxy;
- must send their e-mail with an electronic copy of the duly signed voting form;
- must ask the financial intermediary handling the management of their share account to send a written confirmation to CACEIS Corporate Trust.
 
Only notifications of the appointment or cancellation of proxies may be sent to the electronic address referred to above. Requests or notifications on any other subject will not be taken into account and/or processed.
 
Requests for inclusion in the agenda of points or draft resolutions

All requests for inclusion in the agenda of points or draft resolutions should be sent along with an account inscription certificate, by letter with return receipt addressed included, which shall be received by the company headquarter by no later than 25 days preceding the date of the AGM.

The request must be accompanied by the point to be inserted in the agenda, and the reasons for its insertion, or by the text of the draft resolutions, which may be accompanied by a brief summary of the grounds

How to ask written questions

You may ask written questions that must be sent to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company (PPR – Direction Juridique 10 avenue Hoche , 75008 Paris) by registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt or by email to the following address : actionnaire@ppr.com by no later than the 4th business day preceding the date of the Annual General Meeting (i.e., April 23, 2012).
In order to be considered, these questions must be accompanied by a certificate of registration of the shares.
Answers to written questions may be published directly in this 2012 Annual General Meeting section of the Company’s website.
 

Last update : March 2012