The Shareholders’ General Meetings are convened and conducted in accordance with the provisions of the law. They are held at the registered office or at any other place specified in the notice of the meeting.
For the purpose of calculating the quorum and the majority at Shareholders’ General Meetings, shareholders participating in such meetings by means of videoconferencing or electronic telecommunication links enabling them to be identified in accordance with the terms and conditions of such links as provided for by the relevant laws or regulations shall be deemed to be present at the meeting.
All shareholders whose shares are paid up to the extent called and whose right to participate in the Shareholders' General Meeting is evidenced by an entry, by the date and in accordance with the procedure required by the applicable laws and regulations, in a share register or securities account held in the name of the shareholder or, for shareholders who are not resident in France, in the name of the the shareholder’s financial intermediary, indicating the number of shares held are entitled to participate in the Shareholders' General Meeting.
A share ledger is an entry in the share register kept by the Company or by the financial intermediary, or in the bearer share accounts kept by the financial intermediary, within the time limits and under the conditions laid down by the applicable laws and regulations.
Access to the Shareholders’ General Meetings shall be open to members upon presentation of proof of status and identity. The Board of Directors may, if it deems it appropriate, arrange for individual admission card to be issued to shareholders in their names and may require such cards to be presented.
Any shareholder may vote remotely in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Similarly, any shareholder may participate in discussions and vote during a meeting by remote transmission.
Shareholders Meetings are presided over by the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors, or in her absence, by the vice-chair, if any, or by the most senior director present at the meeting. In her absence, the meeting shall elect its own chair.
No shareholder holds any special voting rights and all shares in the Company carry one voting right, except for registered shares carrying double voting rights.
The Annual Shareholders Meeting held on February 23, 1999 introduced double voting rights conferred on all fully paid-up shares registered in the name of the same shareholder for at least four years as well as on registered shares allotted free of charge to a shareholder for the existing shares held by that shareholder that carry double voting rights, in the event of a bonus share issue carried out by capitalizing profit, reserves or premiums.
As at August 31, 2025, the 147,454,887 shares making up the Company’s capital carried 218,451,268 theoretical voting rights and 216,928,941 voting rights exercisable at Shareholders Meetings. 70,996,381 of the shares have double voting rights, representing 48.1% of the capital and 65.4% of the voting rights, which could be exercisable at the Shareholders Meetings at that date.
Only treasury shares do not carry any voting rights, in accordance with article L.225-210 of the French Commercial Code (which accounts for differences between the theoretical number of voting rights and the number of exercisable voting rights).
All modifications to share capital or voting rights attached to the shares therein are subject to legal requirements, as the Company’s Bylaws do not contain specific provisions.
A full version of the Company’s Bylaws is available on the Group’s website at www.sodexo.com.
Documents relating to the Company which are required to be made available to the public (bylaws, reports and other documents, historical financial information of the Company and consolidated financial information for at least each of the two fiscal years preceding
the date of this Fiscal 2025 Universal Registration Document) are available on the Company’s website (www.sodexo.com) and may also be consulted at its registered office at 255, quai de la Bataille de Stalingrad – 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, preferably by appointment.
