COFACE SA Paris, 25 July 2019 – 17:45
COFACE SA: Capital reduction by cancellation of treasury shares
The Board of Directors of COFACE SA, in its meeting of 24 April 2019 and pursuant to the 14th resolution of the Combined General Meeting of 16 May 2018, decided to cancel the 1,867,312 shares bought under the share buyback programme, as announced on 25 October 2018; and correlatively, to reduce the share capital of the company.
As a result, the share capital of COFACE SA now stands at €304,063,898 divided into 152,031,949 shares with a nominal value of €2 each.
This decision does not affect the execution of the liquidity agreement. The details of the transactions carried out under the buy-back programme are available on the company's website https://www.coface.com/Investors/Disclosure-requirements, under the heading "Transactions in own shares".
Thus, based on the current information, the total number of voting rights and shares comprising the share capital of COFACE SA as of 30 July 2019 is as follows:
| Shares capital in € | Total number of shares | Theoretical number of voting rights1 | Number of effective voting rights2 |
| 304,063,898 | 152,031,949 | 152,031,949 | 150,831,150 |
| (1) including own shares | |||
| (2) excluding own shares | |||
| CONTACTS | |
| MEDIA RELATIONS Agency ComCorp Caroline PIERRON T. +33 (0)1 55 01 09 88 coface@comcorp.fr | ANALYSTS / INVESTORS Thomas JACQUET T. +33 (0)1 49 02 12 58 thomas.jacquet@coface.com Benoit CHASTEL T. +33 (0)1 49 02 22 28 benoit.chastel@coface.com |
FINANCIAL CALENDAR 2019 (subject to change)
9M-2019 results: 23 October 2019 (after market close)
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
This press release, as well as COFACE SA’s integral regulatory information, can be found on the Group’s website:
http://www.coface.com/Investors
For regulated information on Alternative Performance Measures (APM),
please refer to our Interim Financial Report for S1-2019 and our 2018 Registration Document.
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