Rexel gave its shareholders the possibility of choosing their dividend's payment either in shares or in cash (€0.75 per share) for the financial year closed on December 31, 2014.

The option ran from June 3, 2015 to June 23, 2015. For the payment in shares, the issue price of the Rexel shares was set at €14.21 per share.

At the end of the period of choice, 171,082,685 coupons have been exercised in favor of payment in shares (i.e.59% of all coupons). The payment of dividends in shares has led to the creation of 8,955,801 new shares.

The payment in cash or the delivery of the new shares on the exercise of the option has been carried out on July 1, 2015.

As of July 1, 2015, the number of shares outstanding amounts to 301,844,408; this corresponds to:

Number of shares as of June, 30, 2015 292,779,426
After delivery of the new shares on the exercise of the option 8,955,801
After delivery of new shares to employees subscribing to the 2010 Group shareholding plan* 109,181


*For more information, please refer to the 2014 Registration document


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