Registration Document

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1.6 Registration
Sodexo is registered in the Nanterre Register of
Commerce and Companies as no. 301 940 219.
1.7 Business identifier code
(APE code)
5629B.
1.8 Consultation of legal documents
Documents relating to the Company which are
required to be made available to the public (bylaws,
reports and other documents, historical individual
company and consolidated financial information
for each of the two fiscal years preceding the date
of this Registration Document) are available on our
website www.sodexo.com and may also be consulted
at our registered offices at 255, quai de la Bataille
de Stalingrad – 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France,
preferably by appointment.
1.9 Material contracts
During the last two years, the Company has not
entered into any material contracts, other than those
signed in the ordinary course of business, creating
a material obligation or commitment for the entire
Group.
1.10 Fiscal year (article 17
of the bylaws)
“The fiscal year commences on September 1 of each
year and ends on August 31 of the following year.”
1.11 Appropriation of earnings
(excerpt from article 18
of the bylaws)
“(...) 2. The first appropriation of net income, net of
any accumulated losses from prior periods, must be
an amount of at least 5% of net income to establish
the reserve fund required by law. This appropriation
ceases to be obligatory once this reserve fund is
equal to one-tenth of the issued capital, but must
be resumed if for any reason the reserve falls below
one-tenth of the issued capital.
3. Distributable earnings comprise net income for the
fiscal year, minus any accumulated losses brought
forward and any transfer to the legal reserve, plus
any retained earnings brought forward.
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General Information about Sodexo and its Issued Capital
Distributable earnings are appropriated in the
following order:
a) any sum that the Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting,
on the proposal of the Board of Directors, decides to
carry forward as retained earnings or to appropriate
to the creation of an extraordinary reserve fund,
contingency fund or other fund, whether or not
created for a specific purpose;
b) the surplus is distributed among all of the
shareholders, each share entitling its holder to an
equal share of the profit. However, shareholders able
to show that they have been a registered shareholder
for at least four years as of the balance sheet date, and
who remain registered at the dividend date related
to the said fiscal year, are entitled to a dividend
premium on the shares so registered, equal to 10%
of the dividend paid on the other shares, the resulting
dividend premium being round down to the nearest
euro cent where appropriate.
Similarly, shareholders able to show that they have
been a registered shareholder for at least four years as
of the balance sheet date, and who remain registered
at the date of a capital increase by capitalization of
reserves, income or share premiums, by distribution
of bonus shares, are entitled to supplementary bonus
shares equal to 10% of those to be distributed. In
the case of odd lots, the number of supplementary
shares will be rounded down to the nearest unit.
The resulting new shares will qualify for the same
treatment as the old shares from which they are
derived for the purposes of calculating rights to the
dividend premium and to receive supplementary
bonus shares.
The number of shares upon which a single shareholder
shall be eligible for these dividend premiums or
supplementary bonus shares may not exceed 0.5%
of the share capital.
The foregoing terms and conditions will apply for
the first time to payment of the dividend payable for
the fiscal year ended August 31, 2013 (to be set by
the Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting expected to be
called in January 2014).”
1.12 Shareholders’ Meetings (excerpt
from article 16 of the bylaws)
“1. General Shareholders’ Meetings are called and
deliberate on the terms stipulated by the law. They
are held at the registered office or at any other place
specified in the notice of the meeting.
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