Capital, Shareholding And Ownership Statements

Tue, 2011-09-27 15:15 — admin

Capital

EVS capital is currently represented by 13,625,000 shares. On December 31, 2010, according to Euroclear and EVS Shareholders Register, EVS had 140,403 own shares and there were 1,462,938 registered shares of which 855,528 are owned by Michel COUNSON, 329,308 by IMG, 229,309 by Belinvest, 17,499 by EVS, and the remaining balance by 8 other shareholders. In the EVS accounts at Euroclear, there were 12.164.378 bearer shares, of which 100,461 materialized shares, including with the PRIOS system (Printing On Demand Services), which is an environmental friendly Euroclear service. As of December 31, 2010, 99.3% of EVS shares have been dematerialised.

EVS shares (ISIN BE0003820371) are quoted continuously on EURONEXT Brussels. The EVS IPO onto the first Brussels stock market took place in 1998 at a price of 7,44 EUR (37,20 EUR before share split). Moreover, EVS has been selected to be part of Next150 and BelMid indexes and of the Next Economy quality segment, which includes other technological growth companies. In June 2005, the nominal value of the shares was divided by 5.

Authorized capital procedure (article 6 of the bylaws)

As per decision of the Extraordinary Shareholders Meetings dated 25th September 1998, 7th September 1999 and 15th June 2004, the Board Meeting is authorised to increase the nominal capital  in one or several steps with a maximum amount of 8 300 000 EUR, including the share premium. The authorization given by the Board has been renewed for a term of 5 years starting on the publication date of the June 7, 2010 deliberation. The Board Meeting is legally entitled to use the authorised capital under the conditions set forth in article 607 of the Companies Code as soon as the company receives a notification from the Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission (FSMA) of a public take-over bid on the securities of the company, taking into account the notification is received within a period of three years as from the Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting date held on June 7, 2010.

Dematerialisation

EVS is dematerialising its shares from January 1, 2008 in cooperation with Belgium. The bearer shares of the company, that have been issued and registered by January 1, 2008, are considered as dematerialised as from that date. The other bearer shares, shall be automatically dematerialised as from January 1, 2008 as they are registered on a securities account. The Board of Directors is authorised, within the limits set by law, to establish procedures for the exchange of bearer shares into dematerialised (and/or registered) shares. For any further information, contact Euroclear Belgium at: info_EuroclearBelgium@euroclear.com
Tel: + 32 2 702 55 30 - + 32 2 702 54 13

Shareholding

Current situation as it appears from the last official ownership statements received by the company and the current situation of treasury shares and warrants :

Situation at November 15, 2011, as per the most recent ownership statements

  Number of shares % Statutory - incl. treasury shares % IFRS - excl. treasury shares
  Basic (1) Fully Diluted (2) Basic (3) Fully Diluted (4)
Michel Counson 879,906 6.5% 6.3% 6.5% 6.4%
IMG S.A. (Laurent Minguet family) 95,280 0.7% 0.7% 0.7% 0.7%
           
Treasury shares 172,205 1.2% 1.2%    
Fortis Investment Management 578,353 4.2% 4.2% 4.3% 4.2%
Fidelity (FIL Ltd.) 404,500 3.0% 2.9% 3.0% 2.9%
Ameriprise Financial Inc. (Columbia Wanger) 417,065 3.1% 3.0% 3.1% 3.0%
Unidentified 10,077,691 81.3% 79.6% 82.3% 80.6%
           
Total 13,625,000 100%      
Total excl. Treasury shares 13,452,795     100.0%  
Outstanding warrants 284,550   2.0%   2.1%
Total statutory - fully diluted 13,909,550   100.0%    
Total IFRS - fully diluted 13,737,345       100.0%

(1) As % of the number of suscribed shares, including the treasury shares.
(2) As % of the number of suscribed shares, including the outstanding warrants and the treasury shares.
(3) As % of the number of suscribed shares, excluding treasury shares, deducted from the shareholders’ equity under IFRS.
(4) As % of the number of suscribed shares, excluding treasury shares and including the outstanding warrants.

  • IMG (Invest Minguet Gestion) S.A. is the holding company of the MINGUET family. Its object is the management and the financing of companies in which it owns shares. The Managing Director is Laurent MINGUET, one of the founders of EVS.

 

Ownership Statements

The shareholding percentage must be computed on the base of the denominator.

Situation as of November 30, 2011:

Number of outstanding ordinary shares : 13,625,000

Number of outstanding warrants (each warrant entitles the holder to purchase from EVS one existing ordinary share bought back previously by EVS in the market): 284,550

Total number of voting rights (= denominator) : 13,625,000

Shareholders must declare their ownership in EVS shares as soon as their shareholding passes over/under the 3% threshold (required by Company Statutes) and any multiple of 5% thresholds (required by Belgian Law).
Notifications of important shareholdings to be made according to the Law of May 2, 2007 and the EVS's bylaws, should be sent to corpcom@evs.tv, or per fax (+32 4 361 7089).

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