financial report and registration document 2011 - Groupe SEB

7 General
Information on the Company and its share capital
information concerning SEB S.A
7.1. GENERAL INFORMATION CONCERNING
SEB S.A.
Corporate name: SEB S.A.
Registered head offi ce: Les 4M | Chemin du Petit-Bois | 69130 Écully, France
Tel.: +33 (0) 472 18 18 18 | Fax: +33 (0) 472 18 16 55
Business registration number: 300 349 636 RCS Lyon
Industrial classifi cation (NACE) code: 6420 Z
Legal form: French limited company (société anonyme)
Financial year: 1 January to 31 December
Governing law: French
Duration: 99 years from 1973
Corporate objects (Article 3, Company bylaws)
The object of the Company in France and abroad covers:
� investment in any company involved in any form of business and, in
consequence, the acquisition or subscription of all types of shares,
warrants, capital holdings and interests, all types of securities, as well as
the disposal of the said investments and marketable securities;
� all operations concerning the financing of its subsidiaries and other
companies in which it owns or may acquire a holding;
� the acquisition and registration of patents or inventions and the granting
of all forms of licences for the use of these patents;
� the acquisition, construction and management of real estate and its
disposal;
� all operations contributing to the development of the Company and to the
achievement of the objects specifi ed above.
Statutory allocation of profi ts (Article 46, Company bylaws)
Profi ts are allocated in accordance with legal requirements and regulations.
Payment of dividends is made in priority over distributable profi ts.
The Annual General Meeting may offer shareholders an option to choose
payment of dividends in cash or in the form of new shares.
A supplementary dividend payment per share of 10% of the unit value of
the dividend in question, which may be rounded down to the nearest even
number of euro cents, shall be paid in respect of shares registered without
interruption by the same shareholder in the nominal register for at least two
fi nancial years preceding the dividend payment, and which are still registered
on the ex-dividend date. For any one shareholder, this supplement is limited
to a number of shares which may not exceed 0.5% of share capital. This
supplement can be altered or cancelled by decision of an Extraordinary
General Meeting of Shareholders which will then decide on any new terms
and conditions.
The General Meeting also has the power to decide on the distribution of
amounts to be drawn from the reserves at its disposal. In this case, the
reserve accounts from which funds are to be drawn are explicitly indicated.
General Meetings of Shareholders (Article 30 et seq.)
Shareholders are notifi ed of the AGM in accordance with legal requirements.
Each shareholder has the right to attend General Meetings or to be
represented, regardless of the number of shares held, provided that the
said shares are fully paid up and registered in either the shareholder’s name
or in the name of the intermediary registered on the shareholder’s behalf,
at zero hour, French time, on the third business day preceding the General
Meeting, either in the accounts of registered shares held by the Company,
or in bearer share accounts held by the qualifi ed intermediary.
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