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Sofina SA — Major Shareholding Notification 2023
Oct 27, 2023
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Major Shareholding Notification
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27 October 2023 – after 5.40pm Regulated information
PRESS RELEASE
Sofina SA (« Sofina ») and consortium companies forming the reference shareholder of Sofina1 have made a transparency notification on 26 October 2023. Following the implementation of a share buyback programme intended to partly cover the stock options plans issued for the benefit of the personnel of Sofina and of its subsidiaries, Sofina crossed the statutory threshold of 3%.
The notification dated 26 October 2023 contains the following information:
- Reason for the notification: acquisition or disposal of voting securities or voting rights
- Notification by: persons acting in concert
- Persons subject to the notification requirement: Union Financière Boël SA, Société de Participations Industrielles SA, Mobilière et Immobilière du Centre SA and Sofina SA
- Transaction date: 23 October 2023
- Crossed threshold: 3%
- Denominator: 34,250,000
1 The reference shareholder of Sofina is a consortium within the meaning of Article 1:19 of the Companies and Associations Code, formed by Union Financière Boël SA, Société de Participations Industrielles SA and Mobilière et Immobilière du Centre SA.
• Details of the notification:
| Holders of voting rights | Number of voting rights previous notification (04/05/2017) |
After the transaction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of voting rights |
Percentage of voting rights |
||
| Union Financière Boël SA | 7,540,866 | 7,676,729 | 22.41% |
| Société de Participations Industrielles SA | 8,486,320 | 8,486,320 | 24.78% |
| Mobilière et Immobilière du Centre SA | 2,535,968 | 2,535,968 | 7.40% |
| Subtotal of the reference shareholder: | 18,563,154 | 18,699,017 | 54.60% |
| Sofina SA | 579,965 | 1,031,528 | 3.01% |
| Total: | 19,143,119 | 19,730,545 | 57.61% |
| Newsletter #13 | January 2024 |
|---|---|
| Annual report 2023 | 28 March 2024 |
| Annual General Meeting | 8 May 2024 |
| Newsletter #14 | July 2024 |
Sofina is a Belgian investment company, listed on Euronext Brussels. Sofina's mission is to partner with leading entrepreneurs and families, backing them with patient capital and supportive advice to foster sustainable growth of their businesses. Relationships and alignment are at the heart of what we do. Sofina has investments in Europe, Asia and the United States in various sectors, with a particular focus on Consumer and retail, Digital transformation, Education as well as Healthcare and life sciences. For more information, please visit www.sofinagroup.com
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