November 7, 2024
Annual General Meeting of JCDecaux SA on May 15, 2012
- Paris
Paris, May 15, 2012 – The combined Annual General Meeting of JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC) was convened on May 15, 2012.
The Annual General Meeting approved the payment of a dividend of €0.44 per share.
The Annual General Meeting also renewed the terms of five of the six members of the Supervisory Board, for different durations in order to stagger the dates at which the terms of the Board members are renewed: Mr. Jean-Claude Decaux and Mr. Pierre-Alain Pariente had their terms in office renewed for one year, Mr. Jean-Pierre Decaux for two years, Mr. Pierre Mutz, and Mr. Xavier de Sarrau for three years. The term of Ms Monique Cohen, appointed at the Annual General Meeting convened on May 11, 2011, runs until the Annual General Meeting to be convened in 2014.
Following the Annual General Meeting, Mr. Jean-Claude Decaux and Mr. Jean-Pierre Decaux were both re-appointed by the Supervisory Board to their respective positions of Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board. The Supervisory Board also renewed for three years the terms of three of the four members of the Executive Board namely, Mr. Jean-François Decaux, Mr. Jean-Charles Decaux and Mr. Jeremy Male. The term of Ms Laurence Debroux, appointed on January 1, 2011, runs until December 31, 2013.
The Supervisory Board then appointed Mr. Jean-Charles Decaux Chairman of the Executive Board and Mr. Jean-François Decaux Chief Executive Officer of JCDecaux SA.
For commercial and public relations purposes, both Mr Jean-Charles Decaux and Mr Jean-François Decaux use the title “Co-Chief Executive Officer” of JCDecaux.
Key figures
- 2011 revenues: €2,463m
- JCDecaux is listed on the Eurolist of Euronext Paris and is part of the Euronext 100 and Dow Jones Sustainability indexes
- No.1 worldwide in street furniture (426,200 advertising panels)
- No.1 worldwide in transport advertising with 175 airports and nearly 280 transport contracts in metros, buses, trains and tramways (367,800 advertising panels)
- No.1 in Europe for billboards (208,500 advertising panels)
- No.1 in outdoor advertising in the Asia-Pacific region (202,200 advertising panels)
- No.1 worldwide for self-service bicycle hire
- 1,013,500 advertising panels in more than 55 countries
- Present in 3,700 cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants
- 10,300 employees