MAIA, APRIL, 20th 2009 - Sonae

MAIA, APRIL, 20th 2009
(Translation from the Portuguese original)
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
of 20 April 2008
Sonae, SGPS, SA informs that its shareholders have decided, at the Company’s Annual General Meeting, held
today:
1 - To approve the Company’s Annual report, and the Individual and Consolidated Accounts and respective
Notes for the Accounts for 2008, as presented by the Board of Directors;
2 - To approve the proposedlication of the Net Profit for 2008, in the amount of 30 472 155,03 euros, as follows:
a. The application of 1 523 607,75 euros as Legal Reserves;
b. The application of 28 948 547,28 euros as Dividends;
c. The payment of a gross dividend of 0,03 euros per share, also using Free Reserves, in the
amount of 31 051 452,72 euros, to this effect;
3 - To approve a vote of appreciation for and confidence in the work performed by the management and the
supervisory statutory governing bodies, during the year ended 31 December 2008;
4 - To approve the ratification of the co-option of Bernd Hubert Joachim Bothe to the Board of Directors, which
occurred on 17 March 2009. Moreover, it was approved o fix the guarantee he is required to provide as a
Director of the Company in an amount of € 250,000 (two hundred and fifty thousand euros) to be provided by
cash deposit, by deposit share, under an insurance bond policy or by any other means permitted by Portuguese
Company Law;

5 – To authorize the Board of Directors to, over the next 18 months and under the legal terms, to purchase and
sell own shares, as prescribed in the proposal presented by that body and previously disclosed;
6 - To authorize the Board of Directors to, over the next 18 months and under the legal terms, to purchase and
sell bonds, as prescribed in the proposal presented by that body and previously disclosed;
7 - To authorize companies directly or indirectly controlled by Sonae – SGPS, SA to purchase and/or hold
shares of the Company, over the next 18 months, as prescribed in the proposal presented by the Board of
Directors and previously disclosed;
8 - To approve the delivery of own shares up to the limit of 1% of share capital to senior managers of the
Company and of its affiliate companies, under the terms of the proposal presented and previously disclosed;
9 - To amend as a result, amend paragraph 1 of Article 21, pagrapraph 3, 4, 5, sub-paragraph c) of paragraph
6, 7 and 8 of Article 23 of the Company’s Articles of Association.
Maia, 20 April 2009
The Representative for Capital Markets Relations