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DELHAIZE GROUP / ANNUAL REPORT 2006 53
on the Company’s website together with all other relevant
documents.
Extraordinary General Meetings of April 25, 2006 and May
24, 2006
The Board called an Extraordinary General Meeting on April
25, 2006. Since the required quorum was not achieved, no
decisions were taken during that meeting, and a second
Extraordinary General Meeting was called with the same
agenda on May 24, 2006. The Extraordinary General Meeting
of May 24, 2006 renewed the powers of the Board with respect
to the acquisition of shares of the Company. The minutes of
the Extraordinary General Meeting of May 24, 2006, including
the voting results, are available on the Company’s website
together with all other relevant documents.
Shareholder Structure and Ownership Reporting
Pursuant to Belgian law and the Company’s Articles of
Association, any benefi cial owner or any two or more persons
acting as a partnership, limited partnership, syndicate or
group (each of which shall be deemed a “person” for such
purposes) who, after acquiring directly or indirectly the
benefi cial ownership of any shares, American Depositary
Receipts (“ADRs”) or other securities giving the right to
acquire additional shares or ADRs of the Company, is directly
or indirectly the benefi cial owner of 3%, 5% or any other
multiple of 5% of the total outstanding and potential voting
rights of the Company which causes such benefi cial owner’s
total voting rights to increase or decrease past any such
threshold percentage, shall, within two Belgian business days
after becoming so benefi cially interested, report its ownership
to the Company and to the Belgian Banking, Finance and
Insurance Commission, as set forth in the March 2, 1989
Law on the disclosure of important participations in listed
companies and the regulation of public takeovers or in the
Royal Decree implementing this law.
Any person failing to comply with the reporting requirements
mentioned above may forfeit all or part of the rights attributable
to such Delhaize Group securities, including, but not limited
to, voting rights or rights to distributions of cash or share
dividends or may even be ordered by the President of the
Belgian Commercial Court to sell the securities concerned to
a non-related party.
Delhaize Group is not aware of the existence of any
shareholders’ agreement with respect to the voting rights
pertaining to the securities of the Company.
With the exception of the shareholders identifi ed in the
table below, no shareholder or group of shareholders had
declared as of December 31, 2006 holdings of at least 3% of
the outstanding shares, warrants and convertible bonds of
Delhaize Group.
Date of Notifi cation Name of Shareholder
Number of
Shares Held
Shareholding
in Percentage
of the Number
of Outstanding
Shares, Warrants
and Convertible
Bonds According to
the Notifi cation
Shareholding in
Percentage of the Number
of Outstanding Shares,
Warrants and Convertible
Bonds (December 31, 2006)
September 16, 2005 Axa (consolidated)
Avenue Matignon 25
75008 Paris
France
13,209,804 12.55% 12.41%
Including:
- Alliance Capital Management L.P. (U.S.)
(1)
- Axa Rosenberg (United Kingdom)
(1)
- Axa IM (France)
(1)
- Ardenne Prevoyante - Axa (Belgium)
(2)
11,718,406
1,206,132
266,966
18,300
11.13%
1.15%
0.25%
0.02%
11.01%
1.13%
0.25%
0.02%
June 11, 2003 Sofi na SA
Rue des Colonies 11
1000 Brussels
Belgium
3,168,444 3.22% 2.98%
(1) Shares are benefi cially owned by third parties.
(2) Shares are benefi cially owned by shareholder providing notice.