Financial releases

Jun 11, 2009

The Annual General Meeting of Groupe Steria SCA's shareholders on the 29th May 2009 approved the 2008 fiscal year dividend payment, i.e. 0.12 euro per share, as well as the possibility offered to shareholders to opt to receive this dividend in new company shares.

The price of the shares to be attributed as payment of the dividend, equal to 90% of the average price quoted on Paris Euronext during the twenty trading sessions prior to the date of the meeting, reduced by the net amount of the dividend and rounded up to the nearest cent comes to 12.53 euros.

These new shares will have full rights including dividend from 1st January 2009 and will be entirely assimilated to existing shares.

Each shareholder may, for a period beginning on 9th June 2009 and ending on 25th June (inclusive), opt for a payment in shares by applying to the intermediaries entitled to pay the aforementioned dividend. This option concerns the totality of the dividend to be distributed, i.e. 0.12 euro per share.

If the amount of the dividend used for this option does not correspond to a whole number of shares, the shareholder will obtain the number of shares immediately inferior completed by the outstanding balance in cash.

If the shareholder has not requested a payment in shares by 25th June 2009 at the latest, he/she will receive the amount of his/her dividend in cash.

Payment of the dividend, either in cash or securities, will be made from 7th July 2009 onwards.

The option concerning the payment of dividends described above is not available for shareholders residing in Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan or any other country in which such an option would require registration or the obtaining of an authorization from the local authorities. Shareholders must themselves make enquires regarding the conditions relating to this option, and subject to application in accordance with local regulations.