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EVS Broadcast Equipment (EBR:EVS) Publication on October 31, 2008, 5.45 pm CET Regulated information - Disclosure of major shareholding
EVS discloses major shareholdings
Liège (Belgium), October 31, 2008 - Pursuant to the Belgian Law of May 2, 2007 relating to the publication of major shareholdings, EVS Broadcast Equipment S.A. (Euronext Brussels: EVS.BR, Bloomberg: EVS BB, Reuters: EVSB.BR) (Pinksheets: EVBEF), the leader in Professional Digital Video applications for Live, Near-Live and Studio TV Production, has recently received the following notifications from shareholders:
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Notification by: | Country | Number of | % of | | | | shares held | outstanding | | | | as at September | shares | | | | 1, 2008 | | |-------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------| | Founders, acting in | | | | | concert: | BE | 1,711,795 | 12.3% | | DTV (P. L'Hoest/L. | BE | 879,906 | 6.4% | | Minguet) (1) | | 2,591,701 | 18.7% | | Michel Counson | | | | | Total founders: (3) | | | | |-------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------| | Cytindus SA (2) | BE | 310,000 | 2.2% | |-------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------| | BIP Investment Partners | LU | 735,682 | 5.3% | | SA (3) | | | | |-------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------| | Fortis Investment | FR/UK | 578,353 | 4.2% | | Management | | | | |-------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------| | Lazard Asset Management | USA | 416,796 | 3.0% | |-------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------| | | | | | |-------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------| | Total number of | | 13,875,000 | 100.0% | | outstanding shares | | | | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
(1) Including 13,178 shares held by Pierre L'Hoest (2) Chairman of the Board of Directors of EVS Broadcast Equipment (3) Member of the Board of Directors of EVS Broadcast Equipment
All other former shareholder notifications should be considered as outdated. The global current shareholding situation of EVS Broadcast Equipment is available on the EVS website.
Future notifications of important shareholdings to be made according to the Law of May 2, 2007 or to the EVS bylaws should be sent to corpcom@evs.tv.
For more information, please contact: Jacques GALLOY, Director & CFO Geoffroy d'OULTREMONT, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications Manager EVS Broadcast Equipment S.A., Liege Science Park, 16 rue du Bois Saint-Jean, B-4102 Ougrée (Liège), Belgium Tel: +32 4 361 70 14. E-mail: corpcom@evs.tv; www.evs-global.com
About EVS Group EVS Group designs, develops and markets professional digital equipment for Television (EVS Broadcast) and Cinema (XDC). The Group employs over 230 persons for broadcast equipment in 12 countries and sells its products to professionals of the video and audio sectors in more than 90 countries. EVS is a public company traded on Euronext Brussels: EVS, ISIN: BE0003820371. For more information, refer to www.evs-global.com
EVS Broadcast is the world leader for Live TV Production Digital Disk Recorders and Related Software Applications, especially in the field of sports. The company's dedicated hardware and software suite offer a complete production platform: live slow motion (LSM), high speed slow motion, replay only, clips generation, quick clips editing, real-time SD/HD video files transfer, time delay, multi-camera recording, metadata association, graphics storage and play-out, digital transmission, multi-format ingest and play-back, audio record & edit, webcasting, mobile phone clipping. Main software applications like the "IP Director®" are running on the dedicated robust and flexible hardware the "XT[2]® Platform". The world's leading broadcasters, such as NBC, BSkyB, FOX, RTL, NHK, CANAL+, ABC, ESPN, TF1, CCTV, PBS, CBS, BBC, ZDF, TVE and many others use EVS' solutions. EVS 47,20% affiliate XDC is pioneering Digital Cinema Logistics and Play-out and operates between the movies distributors and exhibitors. XDC has installed more than 280 digital screens throughout the world in China, Germany, Sweden, Brazil, the United States, France, Belgium, etc.
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