CIMENTS FRANCAIS : Descriptif du programme de rachat de titres de la société

Puteaux, 14 April, 2014

CIMENTS FRANÇAIS
Société Anonyme
Tour Ariane - 5 Place de la Pyramide - 92800 PUTEAUX
599.800.885 RCS Nanterre

1. Date of the Shareholders Meeting having approved the programme

Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders meeting of April 11, 2014.

2. Number of treasury shares owned and share capital percentage

As at April 11, 2014, the Company owns 350,187 treasury shares i.e. 0.98 % of the share capital.

3. Allocation of treasury shares

As at April 11, 2014, the Company owns 350,187 shares to be cancelled.

4. Objectives of the programme

The objectives of this buyback program are as follows, in order of importance:

-        to cancel company shares,
-        to monitor shares' price evolution through a liquidity contract in conformity with the AMAFI deontological charter,
-        to buy shares, in a view to hold them and use them as payment or exchange, e.g. for acquisition purposes.

5. Maximum portion of the share capital, maximum number of shares and type of shares, maximum purchase price

The shares concerned are CIMENTS FRANÇAIS ordinary shares (ISIN FR 0000120982 code), listed at the Paris Stock Exchange. Maximum portion of the share capital to be purchased as authorised by the shareholders meeting is 10 % of the total number of existing shares on December 31, 2013, ie 3,579,813 shares of 4 Euros each. Maximum purchase price is 100 Euros per share.

6. Time period

This buyback programme is for a time period of eighteen months from the shareholders meeting of April 11, 2014 or until the date of its renewal by the General Ordinary Meeting.

7. Action done under the previous programme provisions from April 12, 2013 till April 11, 2014

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