The Annual General Meeting
The AGM is held within six months of the annual closing of the company's accounts, usually around mid-November.
It approves the accounts and, in particular, decides on the payout of dividends, as well as naming the members of the Executive and the statutory auditors.

Extraordinary general meetings
These are held whenever major decisions need to be taken that require a change in the company's by-laws or its capital stock.
If you are not able to participate in a general meeting, you can vote by mail or by proxy.

Participating in shareholders' meetings.

	If you want to participate in a shareholders' meeting but need to get information, you can consult our Web site, www.compagniedesalpes.com, to get the day, the time and the place of the meeting.
	Information on shareholders meetings is also published 15 days in advance in the legal gazette, Bulletin des Annonces Légales Obligatoires (BALO). .

How to participate ?

Holders of bearer shares. You need to request an admission card from the financial intermediary who manages your shares. This request serves to block your shares for the five days preceding the meeting. The intermediary should send the blocking certificate directly to: CACEIS 14, rue Rouget de Lisle 92130 Issy-Les-Moulineaux

Absentee voting by mail or by proxy

	Holders of bearer shares. You need first to request the necessary forms at the address given above. On receipt, complete and sign the form and send it to the intermediary who manages your shares, who will return the form and blocking certificate to the Caisse des Dépôts for processing. Duly completed mail votes must reach the Caisse at least three days before the meeting or be invalidated.
	Shares held in your name. Those holding shares in their own name will receive the absentee voting form together with the invitation to the meeting. Fill it out and return it to the Caisse. Duly completed mail votes must reach the Caisse at least three days before the meeting or be invalidated.

Shareholders meetings

As a shareholder, you can take part in the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and any other shareholders meetings that may be called, with a right to vote in major decisions concerning Compagnie des Alpes. The next AGM hold on at the company's headquarters at 89 rue Escudier, 92772 Boulogne Billancourt (France) on November 17, 2001.

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