sain t-gobain annu al report 2008 annual report

Information Policy and 2009 Financial Calendar
INFORMATION POLICY
The Investor Relations Department is responsible
for implementing the Group’s information policy
with the financial community, investors and shareholders.
The head of Investor Relations is Florence Triou-Teixeira
(Phone: +33 (0) 1 47 62 33 33 – Fax: +33 (0) 1 47 62 50 62).
The Department answers requests for information
about the Group and issues regular Shareholder
Newsletters and the Shareholders’ Guide.
These documents can be obtained from:
Saint-Gobain
Investor Relations Department
Les Miroirs - F 92096 La Défense Cedex
Toll free number 0800 32 33 33
(calls originating in France only)
During 2008, the company organized several meetings
with shareholders in France, Lille and Strasbourg in May
and in Bordeaux and Lyon in November. A meeting was
also held during the Salon Actionaria fair in Paris in
November, representing the eleventh year in a row that
the company has taken part in the fair. In addition to
the annual and interim results presentations to analysts
and journalists in Paris and London in January and July,
many other information meetings are organized in the
European financial centers where Saint-Gobain shares are
listed as well as in the United States and Japan. Detailed
information about the Group and its businesses,
and webcasts of analyst meetings are available
on the Saint-Gobain website:
www.saint-gobain.com
The Investor Relations team can be contacted by e-mail
at the following address:
actionnaires@saint-gobain.com
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain also makes additional services
available to holders of registered shares through its
registrar, BNP Paribas, to improve the management
of their shares. For more information, contact the Investor
Relations Department or:
BNP Paribas - Immeuble Tolbiac
GIS - Emetteurs - F 75450 Paris Cedex 09
By phone: Toll free number 0 800 03 33 33
(calls originating in France only)
By fax: Toll free number 0 800 77 25 85
(calls originating in France only)
2009 FINANCIAL CALENDAR
90
2008 final results:
February 19, after the market closes
First quarter 2009 sales:
April 29, after the market closes
Annual General Meeting:
June 4 at 3:00 p.m. at Palais des Congrès
(Porte Maillot), Paris
Dividend:
record-date: June 9, 2009 ; ex-date: June 10, 2009
Option period for dividend reinvestment:
from June 10 to June 24, 2009
Dividend payment date:
July 2, 2009
First-half results:
July 23, after the market closes
Net sales for the first nine months:
October 22, after the market closes
Saint-Gobain - 2008 Annual Report