Shareholder FAQ
Bearer shares are located on an account managed by the financial institution of your choice.
- Registered shares can be:
- either recorded in a registered account managed by the financial institution of your choice
- or recorded in Technicolor's share registered account managed by Société Générale
No custodian fees (if recorded in Technicolor’s share registered account) No need to ask for an invitation to the Shareholder Meetings (Technicolor will send you a convocation and all the information required)
If you are interested in having your shares recorded in Technicolor share register, please contact:
Société Générale
GSSI/GIS/BAO/NPO
32 rue du Champ de Tir
BP 81236
44312 Nantes Cedex 3
Fax : 02 51 85 53 42
Preliminary Formalities
You may choose to attend the Shareholders’ Meeting in person, to vote by mail or by proxy.
Regardless of how you choose to participate, your shares must be recorded on the third trading day preceeding the meeting at 00.00 a.m., Paris time. Since January 1st, 2007, you are no longer required to block your shares to participate in the meeting. After your shares have been recorded, you can sell all or part of them and nevertheless participate in the meeting.
If you own registered shares:
Sociéte Générale, our stock account holder, will send you a notice of meeting and a form enabling you to ask for an admission card, vote by mail or by proxy.
You have no formalities to complete, ownership of your shares is evidenced by their entry on the register.
If you own bearer shares:
You should request a notice of meeting and the above mentioned form from your financial intermediary managing your share account.
Your financial intermediary will provide evidence of your ownership of the shares directly to Société Générale, the bank organizing the Shareholders’ Meeting, by attaching a certificate of participation (attestation de participation) to the form you have sent to your financial intermediary.
To attend the Shareholders’ Meeting in person:
You should request an admission card.
If you own registered shares:
You only need to send the form duly signed and dated in the prepaid envelope you received with the notice of meeting or send the form to:
Société Générale
Service des assemblées
32, rue du Champ de tir
BP 81236
44312 Nantes Cedex 03
France
If you own bearer shares:
You should apply for your admission card directly to the financial intermediary managing your share account, who will transmit your request to Société Générale; the latter will then send you your admission card. If you have not received your admission card on the third day preceeding the meeting, you must ask your financial intermediary to send you a certificate of participation.
You should send back your application for an admission card as early as possible in order to receive the card in due time.
To vote by mail or by proxy:
You have 3 options:
• vote by mail
• give your proxy to the Chairman of the Meeting (in this case, the Chairman will vote in favor of the adoption of the proposed resolutions presented by the Board of Directors)
• give your proxy to your spouse or another shareholder who will attend the meeting
If you own registered shares:
You only need to send the form duly signed and dated in the prepaid envelope you received with the notice of meeting or send the form to:
Société Générale
Service des assemblées
32, rue du Champ de tir
BP 81236
44312 Nantes Cedex 03
France
If you own bearer shares:
You should send back the form duly completed to the financial intermediary managing your share account, who will send the form to Société Générale with a certificate of participation.
Important: once you have asked for an admission card, voted by mail, or sent a proxy, you cannot opt to participate in another way
Since July 15, 2010, date of the reverse split operation , the new Technicolor code ISIN is FR0010918292
Non reverse split shares will be traded on the old code ISIN FR0000184533 until the January 15th, 2011
Until June 27, 2003, you used the Euroclear code 18453 for your transactions with Thomson shares.
Euronext Paris stopped using its own identification system for securities, and adopted the use of International Securities Identification Numbers (ISIN).
As of July 2003, the ISIN code for Thomson is FR00018453.
As a reminder, the EUROCLEAR code 18454 listed the shares purchased by individuals under the November 1999 French public offering.
The EUROCLEAR codes 18516, 18517 and 18518 listed the shares purchased by individuals under the October 2000 French public offering. As of today, all of these codes are assimilated to the main code.
The ISIN code FR0010314336 listed the new shares created until May 12, 2006 resulting from the exercise of the warrants (BASA).