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Our shareholders

Since 13 March 2014, UCB’s capital amounts to € to 583 516 974, divided in 194 505 658 ordinary shares with no nominal value.

Based on the transparency notifications, the shareholder structure of UCB can be summarized as follows:

Shareholders structure

Investors	Percent
Financiere de Tubize	35.00%
Treasury shares	3.16%
Vanguard	5.01%
Blackrock	4.85%
Identified	26.02%
Non identified	25.84%

The main shareholder of UCB is Financière de Tubize SA, a Belgian company listed on Euronext Brussels.

shareholding overview

62% free float by region

Country	Percent
North America	24%
U.K.	11%
Europe	14%
Rest of the World & unidentified	51%

Transparency notifications

Procedure for transparency notification

Fill in the notification forms available on FSMA website
Ensure the copy is duly signed.
Send the electronic copy to FSMA
Send the electronic copy to UCB Corporate Secretariat

Transparency notifications

Notifications pursuant to public takeover bids legislation

UCB shares

UCB Euronext ticker

UCB is listed on Euronext Brussels

since 1928:

- ticker: UCB

- ISN: BE0003739530

Since 13 March 2014, share capital of UCB amounts to € to 583 516 974 and is represented by 194 505 658 shares.

	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Market cap @ year-end (€ billion)	12.3	16.2	11.8	12.9	13.7
Earnings per share	€ 1.10	€ 3.25	€ 2.76	€ 4.00	€ 4.24
High of the year	€ 75.62	€ 86.05	€ 85.12	€ 79.05	€ 81.48
Low of the year	€ 50.11	€ 60.40	€ 54.84	€ 56.55	€ 60.08
Year-end share price	€ 63.20	€ 83.23	€ 60.91	€ 66.18	€ 71.30
Average trading volume (share)	263 320	312 241	325 396	365 284	347 173

Dividend

The Board intends to continue to sustain a dynamic dividend policy, consistent with the long term growth prospects of the Company, offering gradual increase in dividend, and as far as possible not to reduce it, irrespective of the short term income variations.

	Gross dividend (€)	Net dividend (€)
2011	1.00	0.75
2012	1.02	0.765
2013	1.04	0.78
2014	1.06	0.795
2015	1.10	0.803
2016	1.15	0.805
2017	1.18	0.826
2018	1.21	0.847

A dividend in respect of the year ended 31 December 2018 of
€ 1.21 per share was approved at the annual general meeting of the shareholders on 25 April 2019.

Coupon # 22
Ex-dividend: 26 April 2019
Record date: 29 April 2019
Payment: 30 April 2019

Coupon # 22 of UCB shares is payable € 0.847 net per share after deduction of Belgian withholding tax of 30%*, via our paying agent, KBC Bank NV.

_{* Lower witholding tax rates may be applicable depending the specific situation of each shareholder.}

Shareholders' meetings

Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders
The Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders is held on the last Thursday of April at 11:00 a.m. read more
A General Meeting of Shareholders may also be called in special or extraordinary circumstances, whenever Company interests dictate. Moreover, the Board or the statutory Auditor(s) must call an extraordinary general meeting upon the written request of shareholders representing jointly 20% of the share capital of UCB.
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Ordinary general shareholders’ meeting

25 April 2019

Documents	ENG	FR	NL
Convening notice (including agenda/ attendance formalities)
Proxy
UCB Group - 2018 integrated annual report
UCB SA/NV - 2018 statutory annual accounts
UCB SA/NV - Management report
UCB SA/NV - Report of the Statutory Auditor

On the day of publication of the convening notice, UCB SA/NV has a total of 194 505 658 shares outstanding, of which 188 388 193 are entitled to vote.