1998-Paribas Annual Report - BNP Paribas

S HAREHOLDER
INFORMATION
Paribas shareholder information
is available from two specialized
departments:
Paribas Actionnaires:
3, rue d’Antin 75002 Paris France
Fax: +33(0)1-42-98-66-75
in charge of relations with
individual shareholders.
The investor relations department:
Tel: +33(0)1-42-98-66-35
Fax: +33(0)1-42-98-15-25
In addition to its annual
report, the following printed
documents are available
to Paribas shareholders
and followers:
• Shareholder letters
Published twice a year following
the announcement of the Group’s
full-year and interim results, as
well as on the occasion of major
corporate developments. The
shareholder letters convey information
on Group developments
and financial performance, as
well as on the activity of the
Committee of Individual
Shareholders.
• The Annual General Meeting
(AGM) report.
Committee of Individual
Shareholders
Paribas was one of the first
French companies to establish a
Committee of Individual
Shareholders in order to improve
its ongoing dialogue with all
shareholders.
The twelve-member Committee
includes a member of the
Supervisory Board, Colette
Neuville, as well as a representative
of the employee shareholders,
Frédérique Dambrine.
The Committee meets twice a
year under the chairmanship of
Michel François-Poncet and
André Lévy-Lang.
Any shareholder is eligible.
Members are elected for threeyear
renewable terms.
Applications should be sent to
Paribas Actionnaires. In 1998,
eight members were replaced.
The Committee’s members
include:
Michel François-Poncet,
Chairman
André Lévy-Lang,
Vice-Chairman
Alain Balesdent*
Jean Ballongue*
Jean-Claude Burette*
Marcel Cosse*
Frédérique Dambrine,
representing the association of
employee shareholders
Bernard d’Illiers*
Jean-Pierre Kern*
Jean-Jacques Le Guen*
Colette Neuville,
member of the Supervisory Board
Daniel Noblet*
Michel Picot*
Dominique Vigneron*
*individual shareholders
Subsequent Events
On March 9, 1999, Banque
Nationale de Paris (BNP) sought
approval from the relevant French
authorities (Conseil des Marchés
Financiers, or CMF) to launch two
separate public exchange offers
(Offres Publiques d’Échange) for
Société Générale and Paribas.
BNP’s offer for Paribas competes
with the offer launched earlier by
Société Générale.
The CMF cleared both BNP offers
on March 16, 1999. The offers
became effective March 31, 1999.
At the time of completion of the
present document, the calendar of
these offers had yet to be set by
the CMF, whose decision should be
made following the publication of
the information memoranda established
by Société Générale and
Paribas in response to the BNP
offers. On April 6, 1999, the Board
of Directors of Société Générale
and the Supervisory Board of
Paribas rejected the BNP offers.
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