• Dividend history
• How can I hold my shares?
• What are the advantages to register my shares?
• How can I record my shares in Thomson share register?
• How To Participate in the Sharholders' Meeting
• What are the different EUROCLEAR/ISIN codes for Thomson shares?
• Privatisation of Thomson (Oct. 2000) : What was the service rate of the orders placed during the October 2000 Public Offering?
• Privatisation of Thomson (Oct. 2000) : What are the specificities of the shares bought during the October 2000 Public Offering?
• Thomson Initial Public Offering (November 1999) : What was the service rate of the orders placed during the Initial Public Offering?
• Thomson Initial Public Offering (November 1999) : What are the specificities of the shares bought during the Initial Public Offering?

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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 Thomson's share registered account managed by Société Générale

- download the Pure Registered shares guide: Download the pure registered shares guide

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No custodian fees (if recorded in Thomson’s share registered account)

No need to ask for an invitation to the Shareholder Meetings (Thomson will send you a convocation and all the information required)

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If you are interested in having your shares recorded in Thomson 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

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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

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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).

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As the Public Offering was oversubscribed, shares ordered by individuals have been allocated under the following conditions:

If a reservation had been made, as many as 10 shares (539 euros) were integrally allocated. The part between 11 and 55 shares was allocated proportionally at 27%.

Therefore, if you reserved 55 shares, you were allocated 22 shares.

If no reservation had been made, as many as 4 shares (215.6 euros) was integrally allocated. The part between 5 and 55 shares was allocated proportionally at 13%.

Therefore, if you ordered 55 shares, you were allocated 10 shares.

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Shares bought during the Public Offering:

-Entitle their owner to receive free shares after 18 months. 10 shares acquired during the Public Offering and kept during 18 months entitle to 1 (one) free share, up to an initial investment of 4,573.37 euros (30,000 francs).

-Are free of custody fees during 18 months, in all banks and financial institutions where the shares can be registered.

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As the operation was over-subscribed, shares ordered by individuals have been allocated under the following conditions:

-If a reservation had been made, as many as 6 shares (129 euros) was integrally allocated. The part between 7 and 35 shares was allocated proportionally at 81.67%.Therefore, if you reserved 35 shares, you were allocated 29 shares.

-If no reservation had been made, no share have been allocated.

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Shares bought during the Public Offering:

Are free of custody fees during 18 months, in all banks and financial institutions where the shares can be registered.