Publicis Groupe: Supervisory Board Release
18 Mars 2020 - 10:24PM
SUPERVISORY BOARD RELEASE
March 18, 2020 – During an
extraordinary meeting on Monday 16, March, the Supervisory Board of
Publicis Groupe [Euronext Paris: FR0000130577, CAC
40] has been updated by the Management Board on the
measures taken and applied immediately by country management teams,
on three main areas:
1 - As a priority, strong measures aimed at
preserving the health of Groupe employees, by making extensive use
of remote work from home, suspending travel wherever possible and
prioritizing the use of video conference systems, and encouraging
employees to work from home, including in regions that are less
affected by COVID-19 pandemic. These measures enable the Groupe to
ensure continuity in servicing our clients while ensuring the
protection of the health of our
employees; 2 - Helping our
clients through this crisis with an unwavering commitment to their
business, by providing strategic, creative, technological and
commercial support in every field, at any moment, and devising ad
hoc solutions to safeguard their revenues as far as possible;
3 - Rigorously managing operating costs,
including the postponement of some expenses in order to get through
the current situation.
The Supervisory Board approved of these measures
and fully supports the Management Board. In addition, in view of
the next Shareholders’ Meeting (May 27, 2020), the Board has
decided to maintain the 2.30 euros dividend per share,
corresponding to an 8.5% increase compared to the previous year.
The Groupe is maintaining the option for payment in shares, but
without any discount. Given the current share price and the
robustness of Publicis Groupe’s balance sheet, which has around 4.9
billion Euros of available liquidity, the Board has effectively
decided to submit to the shareholders’ vote the choice of a payment
in cash and the possibility to elect for payment in shares, but
without any discount.
If approved by the Shareholders’ Meeting of May
27, 2020, the calendar will be as follows:- June 16: Last day to
acquire shares giving right to dividends (last trading day, right
attached)- June 17 (before stock market opens): Ex-dividend date-
June 18 : Record date- June 19 - July 3: Exercise period for
the option to have the dividend paid in shares- July 9: Payment
date - Listing of newly created shares and payment date of dividend
(in cash or in shares).
About Publicis Groupe - The Power of
OnePublicis Groupe [Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40]
is a global leader in marketing, communication, and digital
transformation, driven through the alchemy of data, creativity,
media and technology, uniquely positioned to deliver personalized
experience at scale. Publicis Groupe offers its clients a seamless
end-to-end service to address all their marketing and
transformation challenges. Publicis Groupe is organized across
Solutions hubs: Publicis Communications (Publicis Worldwide,
Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, BBH, Marcel, Fallon, MSL,
Prodigious), Publicis Media (Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry,
Performics, Digitas), Publicis Sapient and Publicis Health.
Epsilon, the data-driven marketing and tech company and its
platform Conversant, is positioned at the center of the group
fueling all the group’s operations. Present in over 100 countries,
Publicis Groupe employs nearly 84,000 professionals.
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