JCDecaux: Jean-Sébastien Decaux appointed CEO, Southern Europe

Paris, September 13, 2010 - Jean-Sébastien Decaux has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, Southern Europe, a position created to bring the Group’s activities in Spain, Portugal and Italy into a single regional entity. Jean-Sébastien Decaux will continue to serve as Chief Executive Officer of JCDecaux Belgium and JCDecaux Luxembourg, and Street Furniture Director and Board member of IGPDecaux, but will leave his role as Sales Director of IGPDecaux.

Jean-Sébastien Decaux will report to Jean-Charles Decaux, Chairman of the Executive Board and co-CEO of JCDecaux.

Jean-Sébastien Decaux (33) joined the JCDecaux Group in 1998. From 1998 to 2000 he worked as a Sales manager responsible for the launch of advertising campaigns in supermarkets for JCDecaux in the United Kingdom before being appointed City Relations manager of JCDecaux Italia in 2000.

Since November 2001, following an agreement between IGP (the Du Chène de Vère family), Rizzoli Corriere della Sera and JCDecaux, he has served as Managing Director responsible for Street Furniture and Sales Director of IGPDecaux, of which he is also a Board member.

In 2004, he took on responsibility for the Belgian and Luxembourg subsidiaries.

Jean-Charles Decaux, Chairman of the Executive Board and co-CEO of JCDecaux, said: “It was a source of immense pleasure and personal satisfaction to create and develop the activities of JCDecaux in these different countries through a combination of organic growth and acquisition-driven expansion. The sheer size of these entities and the type of challenges to be faced over the coming years now call for the creation of a regional structure along the lines of our organisation in Northern Europe, Asia, the Middle East/Africa and South America. I would like to thank the local teams with whom I have worked for 20 years and to congratulate them once again for the outstanding quality of what they have achieved. I am delighted to be working with Jean-Sébastien Decaux in his new role, managing our activities in this continuously changing region.”