Press release concerning information stipulated by law: Availability of the preparatory documents for the combined ordinary and extraordinary Annual General Meeting of 10 May 2011

The Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of LAGARDÈRE SCA shall be held at 10 a.m. on 10 May 2011 at Carrousel du Louvre, 99, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France.
The company’s shares are all registered shares; so, the convening letter enclosing the combined postal voting and proxy voting forms and the General Meeting Document, has just been sent out to all shareholders registered in the Company’s registered securities accounts.

All the preliminary documents relating to this general meeting may be viewed online and downloaded from the website of the company, www.lagardere.com,under the section entitled “Annual Shareholders Meeting of 2011″(accessible directly from the home page) where they are grouped together for the most part in the following two documents:

• The General Meeting document (comprising the agenda, the summary of the company’s activity and results, a presentation of the resolutions, the reports of the Supervisory Board and of its Chairman, the reports of the Statutory Auditors, the list of draft resolutions);
• The Reference Document – Year 2010 (activities of the company and of its subsidiaries, comments on the accounts, corporate governance, parent company annual and consolidated financial statements, etc.).
  These documents can also be consulted by the shareholders at the company’s administrative office, 121, avenue de Malakoff, 75016 Paris, France, or they may be sent out free of charge in response to a request submitted to the company’s representative at the following address:

BNP Paris Securities Services
CTS Assemblées Grands Moulins de Pantin
9, rue du Débarcadère
93761 Pantin Cedex

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