On September 28, 2020, Publicis Groupe SA paid out the dividend voted by the Combined Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of May 27, 2020, with each shareholder having the option between cash and shares, which resulted in a capital increase of euro 2,814,198.40 through the creation of 7,035,496 new shares with a par value of euro 0.40.
During 2020, 274,325 new shares at a par value of euro 0.40 per share were created as a result of free share plans (under a regularization of the LTIP 2015 and for the LTIP 2017), representing a total capital increase of euro 109,730.
22,156 new shares with a par value of euro 0.40 were also created as a result of warrant exercises, representing a total capital increase of euro 8,862.40.
As of December 31, 2020, the share capital totaled euro 99,107,615.20, divided into 247,769,038 fully paid-up shares with a par value of euro 0.40, of which 24,746,058 shares carried double voting rights.
