Registration Document

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Legal Information
General Information about Sodexo and its Issued Capital
2.3 Capital authorized but not issued
The Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meetings of
January 19, 2009 and January 25, 2010 authorized
the Board of Directors to increase the Company’s
Type of capital increase
Sodexo Registration Document Fiscal 2011
share capital on one or more occasions by issuance
of ordinary shares, and/or all other securities giving
immediate or future access to Sodexo shares, or by
the capitalization of earnings, reserves or additional
paid-in capital, subject to the following limits:
Maximum aggregate
par value
date of
authorization date of expiry
Authorizations with pre-emptive rights
• Issuance of shares and/or all other securities giving
access to Sodexo shares
• Issuance of debt securities giving access to Sodexo
€63 million January 25, 2010 March 25, 2012
shares
Authorizations to issue shares to employees
• Issuance of ordinary shares and/or all other securities
€750 million January 25, 2010 March 25, 2012
reserved for members of Employee Savings Plans €1.6 million January 25, 2010 March 25, 2012
• Stock options (1) Issuance of shares by capitalization of earnings,
10% of the share capital January 19, 2009 March 19, 2012
reserves or additional paid-in capital €100 million January 25, 2010 March 25, 2012
UTILIZATION OF AUTHORIZATIONS GIVEN IN FISCAL 2011:
(1) Stock options granted by the Board of Directors to Group employees and corporate officers are described on pages 255 et seq. of this document.
The other authorizations were not utilized during Fiscal 2011.
2.4 Share ownership of Sodexo
In compliance with article L.233-8 II of the French
Commercial Code and article 223-16 of the General
Regulation of the Autorité des marchés financiers
(AMF), each month Sodexo communicates to the
AMF and publishes – notably on its website www.
sodexo.com – the total number of voting rights and
the number of shares comprising the issued capital
of Sodexo, if these have changed relative to the
previously published information.
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2.4.1 Issued capital as of August 31,
2011
Sodexo had issued capital of 628,528,100 euro
divided into 157,132,025 shares with a par value of
4 euro each, all fully paid and of the same class. Of
these 157,132,025 shares, 45,953,132 carried double
voting rights.
Holders of fully-paid Sodexo shares may elect to hold
them either as registered shares or as bearer shares
identifiable under the relevant laws and regulations,
in particular article L.228-2 of the French Commercial
Code.