Danone: Convening to Combined Shareholders’ Meeting of April 29,
2021
Press Release – Paris, April 7, 2021
Convening
to Combined Shareholders’ Meeting of April 29, 2021
Danone Combined Shareholders’ Meeting is
convened on Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. (Paris time), at
the headquarters – 17 boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris. In the
context of the Covid-19 health crisis, this Shareholders’ Meeting
will be held exceptionally behind closed doors.
The preliminary notice of meeting was published
in the French Bulletin des Annonces Légales Obligatoires (BALO) of
March 22, 2021 and was followed by a complementary notice published
in the BALO of March 31, 2021. The notice of meeting was published
in the BALO of April 7, 2021.
An additional item (without resolution submitted
to the shareholders’ vote) has been included on the agenda of the
Shareholders’ meeting following a request from several
shareholders. This additional item and the arguments of the
shareholders requesting the inclusion of this item on the agenda,
as well as the comments of the Board of Directors, are included in
an addendum to the notice of meeting published today on Danone's
website at the following
address:https://www.danone.com/fr/investor-relations/shareholders/shareholders-meeting.html.
Special procedures for the holding of
the Shareholders’ Meeting Pursuant to French Order No.
2020-321 of March 25, 2020 and Decree No. 2020-418 of April 10,
2020, as extended by Decree No. 2021-255 of March 9, 2021, the
Shareholders’ Meeting of April 29, 2021 will be held exceptionally
behind closed doors, without shareholders and any persons entitled
to attend being physically present.
Shareholders are informed that, in accordance
with the applicable legal and regulatory provisions, Amundi Asset
Management and the FCPE “Fonds Danone”, shareholders of the
Company, will serve as scrutineers for the Shareholders’
Meeting.
The Shareholders’ Meeting will be webcast live
and recorded for later viewing, in French and English, on Danone's
website at the following address:
https://www.danone.com/investor-relations/shareholders/shareholders-meeting.html.
Information of the shareholders
Information relating to this meeting may be consulted on Danone’s
website:
https://www.danone.com/investor-relations/shareholders/shareholders-meeting.html.
In particular, the notice of meeting including the agenda,
the draft resolutions submitted to the Shareholders’ Meeting and
the report of the Board of Directors on these resolutions, may be
consulted on this page.
The documents that must be made available to
shareholders in the context of this Shareholders’ Meeting will be
available under the conditions and within the time limits provided
for by the relevant legal and regulatory provisions.
Written questionsEach
shareholder may as of now send any written questions he/she/it
wishes to the Company. Written questions must be sent to the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, by registered letter with
acknowledgement of receipt, to the following address: Danone –
Direction Juridique Corporate, 15, rue du Helder, 75439 Paris Cedex
09, France, or by email to assemblee2021@danone.com, so that it be
received by the Company at the latest on Tuesday, April 27, 2021.
The questions must be sent together with a share registration
certificate.
The responses to shareholders’ written questions
will be published on the Company’s website in the section dedicated
to the 2021 Shareholders’ Meeting accessible at the following
address:
https://www.danone.com/investor-relations/shareholders/shareholders-meeting.html.
The publication will be available as soon as possible at the end of
the Shareholders’ Meeting and, at the latest, by the end of the
fifth working day following the Meeting, i.e. on Thursday, May 6,
2021.
Shareholders are informed that, in accordance
with regulatory provisions and exceptionally in the context of the
Covid-19 health crisis, it will not be possible to ask questions
and to propose new resolutions during the Shareholders’
Meeting.
Voting procedures The voting
procedures are described in the notice of meeting available on
Danone’s website in the section dedicated to the 2021 Shareholders’
Meeting at the following address:
https://www.danone.com/investor-relations/shareholders/shareholders-meeting.html.
The voting procedures are summarized below.
Shareholders can exercise their voting right
prior to the Shareholders’ Meeting following one of the three
methods:
- by voting by correspondence via the voting form or by Internet
via the VOTACCESS secure platform;
- by giving proxy to any individual or legal person who will vote
prior to the Shareholders’ Meeting; or
- by giving proxy to the Chairman of the Meeting.
No admission card will be delivered for this
Meeting.
Considering the exceptional context,
shareholders are strongly invited to vote or give a proxy by
electronic means.
It should be noted that only shareholders
holding a share registration certificate, either in their name or
in the name of their authorized intermediary acting on their
behalf, as of Tuesday, April 27, 2021, at 00:00 (Paris time), may
cast their vote for the Shareholders’ Meeting.
Vote or give a proxy by electronic
meansShareholders may communicate their voting
instructions, and appoint or revoke a proxy on the Internet, via
the VOTACCESS secure platform, under the following conditions:
- For shareholders with registered shares (pure or
administered): holders of pure or administered registered
shares wishing to vote online will access the VOTACESS secure
platform via the Planetshares website at the following address:
https://planetshares.bnpparibas.com.
- For shareholders with bearer shares: they
shall consult their account-holding institution in order to know
whether their institution is connected or not to the VOTACCESS
platform and, in such case, whether this access is subject to
specific terms of use.
- If the account-holding institution is connected to the
VOTACCESS platform, shareholders shall log on to the
account-holding institution’s website with their usual login ID and
follow the on-screen instructions to access to the VOTACCESS
platform and vote, appoint or revoke a proxy online.
- If the account-holding institution is not connected to the
VOTACCESS platform, the notification of appointment or revocation
of a proxy may be completed by electronic means to the following
address:
paris.bp2s.france.cts.mandats@bnpparibas.com,
under the conditions described in the notice of meeting available
on Danone’s website in the section dedicated to the Shareholders’
Meeting:
https://www.danone.com/investor-relations/shareholders/shareholders-meeting.html. The
VOTACCESS website is open since April 7, 2021 and the opportunity
to vote online before the Shareholders’ Meeting will expire on
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. (Paris time).
Vote or give a proxy by postal
meansShareholders who wish to vote by correspondence or be
represented by giving a proxy to the Chairman of the Meeting or to
a third-party may:
- For shareholders with registered shares (pure or
administered): send back the correspondence/proxy voting
form, which will be sent with the notice of meeting, to BNP Paribas
Securities Services, Service Assemblées Générales.
- For shareholders with bearer shares: request
the correspondence/ proxy voting form to the intermediary managing
their securities account. Shareholders shall send back this voting
form duly completed to their account-holding institution. Their
account-holding institution will then send this form, together with
a certificate of participation, to BNP Paribas Securities Services,
Service Assemblées Générales.
Specific voting procedures for proxies
other than the Chairman of the MeetingThe proxy holder
shall send his/her/its voting instructions for the exercise of
his/her/its proxies to BNP Paribas Securities Services at the
latest on Sunday April 25, 2021, at midnight (Paris time).
The proxy holder shall send his/her/its voting
instructions by sending by email to
paris.bp2s.france.cts.mandats@bnpparibas.com, a scanned copy of the
remote voting form available in the section dedicated to the
Shareholders’ Meeting on the Company's website:
https://www.danone.com/investor-relations/shareholders/shareholders-meeting.html.
The voting instructions must be accompanied by a copy of the proxy
holder’s valid identity document and, if he/she/it acts on behalf
of a legal entity, a copy of the power appointing him/her/it as a
duly authorized representative.
The form must include the surname, first name
and address of the proxy holder with the wording “As Proxy” and
must be dated and signed. The voting instructions are filled in the
box “I vote by post” of the form.
Shareholders are invited to regularly consult
the section dedicated to the Shareholders’ Meeting on the Company's
website in order to access to all updated information
concerning the Shareholders’ Meeting:
https://www.danone.com/investor-relations/shareholders/shareholders-meeting.html.
About Danone
(www.danone.com)
Danone is a leading multi-local food and
beverage company building on health-focused and fast-growing
categories in 3 businesses: Essential Dairy & Plant-Based
products, Waters and Specialized Nutrition. With its ‘One Planet.
One Health’ frame of action, which considers the health of people
and the planet as intimately interconnected, Danone aims to inspire
healthier and more sustainable eating and drinking practices. To
accelerate this food revolution and create superior, sustainable,
profitable value for all its stakeholders, Danone has defined nine
2030 Goals, and paved the way as the first listed company to adopt
the “Entreprise à Mission” status in France. With a purpose to
bring health through food to as many people as possible, and
corresponding social, societal and environmental objectives set out
in its articles of association, Danone commits to operating in an
efficient, responsible and inclusive manner, in line with the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. By
2025, Danone aims to become one of the first multinational
companies to obtain B Corp™ certification. With more than 100,000
employees, and products sold in over 120 markets, Danone generated
€23.6 billion in sales in 2020. Danone’s portfolio includes leading
international brands (Actimel, Activia, Alpro, Aptamil, Danette,
Danio, Danonino, evian, Nutricia, Nutrilon, Volvic, among others)
as well as strong local and regional brands (including AQUA,
Blédina, Bonafont, Cow & Gate, Horizon Organic, Mizone, Oikos,
Prostokvashino, Silk, Vega). Listed on Euronext Paris and present
on the OTCQX market via an ADR (American Depositary Receipt)
program, Danone is a component stock of leading sustainability
indexes including the ones managed by Vigeo Eiris and
Sustainalytics, as well as the Ethibel Sustainability Index, the
MSCI ESG Indexes, the FTSE4Good Index Series, Bloomberg Gender
Equality Index, and the Access to Nutrition Index.
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