PARIS, April 20, 2010 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — As part of the project to
demerge the Group’s Hotels and Services businesses, the Board of Directors of
Accor SA met on April 19, 2010 and approved the asset contribution-demerger
agreement (traite d’apport-scission) describing the terms and conditions of
the demerger process, which will be submitted to shareholders approval at the
June 29, 2010 Ordinary and Extraordinary Meeting of Accor SA Shareholders.
Following on from the Board’s approval of the demerger terms and
conditions on February 23, 2010, this latest decision is an important step in
the transaction’s legal process.
Demerger Process
The agreement calls for Accor SA to contribute all of its Services
business assets to New Services Holding SA, a Group-owned holding company
whose new name will be announced in early June 2010.
The shares issued in consideration for the contributed assets will be
allocated to Accor SA shareholders on the basis of one New Services Holding
SA share for each Accor SA share held.
All of the bonds issued by Accor SA will remain at the level of Accor SA
and the bondholders will be consulted in late May.
Provisional demerger timetable
- May 21, 2010 Publication of the notice of meeting for the
Ordinary and Extraordinary Meeting of Accor SA Shareholders on June 29,
2010
- May 25, 2010 Consultation meeting with Accor SA bondholders
(on first call)
- June 29, 2010 Ordinary and Extraordinary Meeting of Accor SA
Shareholders, which will vote on the proposed demerger
- June 29, 2010 Ordinary and Extraordinary Meeting of New
Services Holding SA Shareholders
- July 2, 2010 Payment of the fiscal 2009 Accor SA dividend in cash and
delivery of the New Services Holding SA shares the same day. The shares
will simultaneously begin trading on the NYSE Euronext Paris stock
exchange.
As a regulated filing, the asset contribution-demerger agreement will be
available in the regulated information section of the Accor website
(http://www.accor.com/en/finance).
Accor, a major global group and the European leader in hotels, as well as
the global leader in services to corporate clients and public institutions,
operates in nearly 100 countries with 150,000 employees.It offers its clients
over 40 years of expertise in two core businesses:
- Hotels, with the Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Novotel,
Mercure, Suitehotel, Adagio, ibis, all seasons, Etap Hotel, Formule 1,
hotelF1 and Motel 6 brands, representing 4,000 hotels and nearly
500,000 rooms in 90 countries, as well as strategically related
activities, such as Thalassa sea&spa, Lenotre and CWL.
- Prepaid Services, with 32 million people in 40 countries
benefiting from Accor Services products in employee and public
benefits, rewards and motivation, and expense management.
SOURCE Accor
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