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Nexans Annual Shareholders'
Meeting of May 10, 2007
- Renewal of Directors' term
of office
-Appointment of new Directors
Paris, 10 May 2007:
The Annual Shareholders' Meeting of
Nexans, held on May 10,
2007, and presided by Gérard Hauser, Chairman and CEO, approved the payment of a
dividend of 1.20 euro per share to be paid on May 15, 2007, which represents an
increase of 20% of the dividend paid last year.
The proposed resolutions
submitted for vote at the meeting were approved, except for resolutions 22 and
24 relating respectively to the allocation of free shares to employees and
officers of the company and the amendment of the articles of association to
ensure that the manner in which voting rights may be exercised complies with the
law of March 31, 2007, relating to take-over bids.
Amongst the resolutions which
were approved at this meeting, the shareholders approved the renewal of the
terms of office of Gianpaolo Caccini, Jean-Marie Chevalier, Georges Chodron de
Courcel, Jacques Garaïalde and Ervin Rosenberg as Directors for 4 years.
The meeting also approved the
appointment of 3 new directors, Jérôme Gallot, Jean-Louis Gerondeau and Nicolas
de Tavernost,* as Directors for a 4 year term.
* Jérome Gallot
After serving as the Auditor at
the French Court of Accounts for 3 years, he joined the Secretary General of the
Inter-Ministry Committee for issues regarding the Organization for European
Economic Cooperation (1989 to 1992), then the Budget Department. He was
successively Cabinet Director of the Ministries of Industry, Post and
Telecommunications, Foreign Trade, and Public Services, then became Deputy
Finance Minister (1993 to 1997). He was appointed Director General of the
Department of Competition, Consumer Affairs and Repression of Fraud within the
French Ministry of the Economy, Finance, and Industry (1997 to 2003) before
becoming Vice President and Member of the Executive Committee of Caisse des
Dépôts and Consignations. He was appointed Chairman of CDC Entreprises in 2006.
Jean-Louis Gerondeau
He began his career in 1965 with
the Department of International and Economic Affairs within the French Ministry
of Equipment, where he worked for 5 years. He joined McKinsey in 1970, then
became the Chief Executive Officer of Zodiac in 1974. He was appointed Chairman
of the Zodiac Management Board in 1980.
Nicolas de Tavernost
First of all employed by the
French Ministry of International Commerce (1974) then appointed General
Secretary of the French Chamber of Commerce in Zurich (1976), he joined the
cabinet of the Secretary of State of Post and Telecommunications in 1977 where
he was posted in 1981 to the Telecommunications Department and then to the
public services Division of the Video Communications Department. He joined
Lyonnaise des Eaux in 1986 as Director of the Audiovisual business. He has been
Managing Director of M6 since its creation in 1987, and was made Chairman of the
M6 Group in 2000.
2007 Financial Calendar
15 May 2007: payment of the
dividend
25 July 2007: publication of the
2007 first-half results and sales
About Nexans
With energy as the basis of its
development, Nexans, the worldwide leader in the cable industry, offers an
extensive range of cables and cabling systems. The Group is a global player in
the infrastructure, industry and building markets. Nexans addresses a series of
market segments from energy, transport and telecom networks to shipbuilding, oil
and gas, nuclear, automotive, electronics, aeronautics, handling and automation.
With an industrial presence in
more than 30 countries and commercial activities worldwide, Nexans employs
21,000 people and had sales in 2006 of 7.5 billion euros. Nexans is listed on
the Paris stock exchange, compartment A of the Eurolist of Euronext. More
information on
http://www.nexans.com/
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