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Revealed at drupa: Independent speed tests confirm sheer power and consistency of the new Harlequin “digital” RIP

delivers pages at over 20 times the rate required by the leading label press or 11 times faster than the leading full-color cut-sheet device using one RIP
plenty of head room to keep presses running at full speed even on complex or badly constructed jobs

Independent speed tests carried out by the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) on the latest release of the new generation Harlequin RIP®, show that it delivers pages far in excess of the rated speeds of the industry’s highest performing digital presses.

The results, published today at drupa in a new White Paper authored by InfoTrends, confirm that the Harlequin Host Renderer has so much processing speed that it not only reduces the risk of poorly constructed jobs slowing down production but exceeds industry requirements in keeping presses running at full speed. This amount of power has benefits for press manufacturers in potentially reducing their bill of materials for the digital front ends driving presses. It benefits print shops by providing a faster return on press investment and future-proofing their operation against the accelerating trend towards personalization of data.

The tests were conducted by RIT’s School of Media, under the auspices of Administrative Chair and Gannett Distinguished Professor, Chris Bondy. The test file suite, developed by RIT, comprised files created using Adobe InDesign, Quark XPress, XMPie and GMC, selected to provide a good representation of the standard production tools used to create static and variable data pages for six sample categories – label printing, direct mail, transactional printing, commercial printing, publications and photo books.

“The global digitization of all content is driving the use of more imagery and personalized content in all printed material”, says Chris Bondy. “Print service providers world-wide are interested to see how enhancements in software architecture, coupled with the latest computing systems, can efficiently and accurately deliver pages to a digital press. That’s why Global Graphics asked us to develop an independent test suite and conduct a RIP processing test that represents the range of printing markets served by digital print.”

The headline results, reported in full in the White Paper, have significant implications for the digital printing industry:

manufacturers of light and medium production devices can reduce time to market by using a single RIP;
vendors of high and ultra-high volume devices can minimize the costs of their DFE using multiple RIPs.

The speed tests show that the Harlequin Host Renderer delivers:

Label printing
- Over 20 times the rate required by the leading label press using one RIP;
Transactional/direct mail (variable data printing)
- 4 times faster than the rate required by the leading continuous feed color devices using a server with 10 RIPs
- 5 times faster than the leading toner cut-sheet color devices using one RIP;
Commercial (assuming a minimum run length of 20 copies)
- 11 times faster than the rate required by the leading full-color, cut-sheet device
- 20 times faster than the rate required by high-end MFP cut-sheet color devices using one RIP;
Publication (assuming a minimum run length of 20 copies)
- 11 times faster than the rate required by an ultra-high volume wide-web inkjet press with a server of 10 RIPs;
- 24 times faster than the rate required by a medium volume, full-color graphic arts production press with one RIP.

“The high-speed inkjet printing market is expected to grow phenomenally in terms of speed, width and productivity which will put tremendous requirements on the RIP”, says Kaspar Roos, associate director, InfoTrends. “Global Graphics has highly efficient, scalable and robust technology to play in this market. OEMs developing high-speed, high-volume printing equipment should consider adding Global Graphics to their evaluation list when sourcing RIP technology.”

The Harlequin Host Renderer provides high performance components with which to build Digital Front Ends for digital production presses. A number of new features in Version 3 increase processing power so that pages pass through the RIP at a faster pace than ever before:

Harlequin Parallel Pages™ allows the RIP to interpret one page while it’s still rendering the previous one. This allows print shops to take maximum advantage of multi-core computers.
Harlequin VariData™ accelerates the processing time of regular PDF files containing variable data including, but not only, PDF/VT files.
The Harlequin Host Renderer is also available as a 64-bit build to access additional memory when it’s needed for pages with large amounts of data.

Press manufacturers at drupa who use Harlequin to drive their digital presses include HP Indigo, and HP inkjet web division ( Hall 4/D60), Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho ( Hall 15/B55) and Miyakoshi Printing Machinery (Hall 9/A04).

Editors notes

Trademarks
Global Graphics and the Harlequin RIP are trademarks of Global Graphics Software Ltd. which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other brand and product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact

Jill Taylor, Global Graphics Software

Tel: +44 (0)7714 410598

Email: jill.taylor@globalgraphics.com

Outcome of the combined meeting of shareholders held on 27 April 2012

All proposed resolutions were passed at the combined meetings of the shareholders of Global Graphics SA (NYSE-Euronext: GLOG) which was held on 27 April 2012 in Brussels, with unanimous or extremely large consent.

Resolutions passed at the ordinary meeting of the Company’s shareholders

Passed resolutions at the ordinary meeting of the Company’s shareholders included the approval of the Company’s 2011 statutory and consolidated accounts, the approval of certain transactions entered into by the Company in the financial year ended 31 December 2011, the allocation of the statutory net profit for that year, as well as the allocation of € 60,000 as attendance fees to the Board for the current year.

In addition, the Company’s shareholders voted to:

re-appoint Messrs. Gary Fry and Alain Pronost as directors of the Company for another four-year mandate which will come to term at the close of the annual meeting held in 2016 to approve the accounts of the last financial year then ended (sixth and seventh resolutions);
renew for a 26-month period the authority given to the Company’s Board of Directors to operate a Share Incentive Plan (SIP) under which the Board may decide to grant free shares to employees and/or directors of the Company, the maximum number of shares which may be granted pursuant to this authorization being 150,000, such number also including the options and free shares granted by the Board pursuant to the eighteenth and nineteenth resolutions of this meeting.
This authorization cancels the unused portion of the existing authorization having the same purpose which was granted to the Board on 16 June 2011 (eighth resolution).
renew for a 18-month period the authority granted to the Board to operate a share repurchase program pursuant to which the Company is entitled to repurchase up to one million of its own shares at a maximum share price of € 10.00 per share.
This authorization cancels the unused portion of the existing authorization having the same purpose which was granted to the Board by the shareholders on 16 June 2011 and was due to expire on 16 December 2012 (ninth resolution).

Resolutions passed at the extraordinary meeting of the Company’s shareholders

Passed resolutions at the extraordinary meeting of the Company’s shareholders provided the Board with the authorization and appropriate authority to:

firstly, cancel up to a million of the Company’s own shares previously repurchased as part of the share repurchase program the implementation of which was authorized by the shareholders in the ninth resolution of today’s meeting, such authorization being granted for a 24-month period (tenth resolution);
secondly, to increase the Company’s share capital, in one or several instances, at the Board’s entire discretion, up to a maximum amount of € 10 million, through the incorporation in the share capital of premiums, retained earnings, otherwise retained profit or of any amount the incorporation of which in the share capital is possible, such authorization being granted for a 26-month period, and cancelling the existing, similar authorization granted to the Board by the shareholders on 23 April 2010 which was due to expire on 23 June 2012 (eleventh resolution); and
thirdly, to increase the Company’s share capital, in one or several instances, at the Board’s entire discretion, up to a maximum nominal amount of € 2 million, through the issue of ordinary shares and/or financial instruments giving right to the share capital and/or the allocation of debt securities, either by maintaining the preferential subscription right attached to existing shares or by waiving such right (effected either through a public offering or a private placement), these authorizations being granted for a 26-month period, and cancelling the existing, similar authorizations granted to the Board by the shareholders on 23 April 2010 which were due to expire on 23 June 2012 (twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth resolutions).

The Board was also granted appropriate authority to:

increase the share capital of the Company above the initially planned amount of a capital increase should the demand for shares be higher than the number of shares contemplated for initial issue when the Board made use of the authorizations to increase the Company’s share capital either by maintaining the preferential subscription right attached to existing shares or by waiving such right. This authorization was granted for a 26-month period (fifteenth resolution);
increase the share capital of the Company up to a maximum of 10% of the existing number of shares to pay for any contribution in kind made to the Company in the form of shares or of any other financial instruments giving right to such shares. This authorization was granted for a 26-month period, and cancels the existing, similar authorization granted to the Board by the shareholders on 23 April 2010 which was due to expire on 23 June 2012 (sixteenth resolution);
increase the share capital of the Company through an issue of ordinary shares of the Company which would be reserved to the Company’s employees participating in the Company’s Plan d’Epargne Entreprise. This authorization was granted for a 26-month period, and cancels the existing, similar authorization granted to the Board by the shareholders on 23 April 2010 which was due to expire on 23 June 2012 (seventeenth resolution);
grant options to subscribe for new shares and/or purchase existing shares to employees and/or directors of the Company, up to a total number of 150,000 shares, such number including all of the shares granted under or outside of the SIP pursuant to the eighth and nineteenth resolutions. Such authorization was granted for a 38-month period and cancelled the unused portion of the existing authorization to grant options, which was granted to the Board by the shareholders on 16 June 2011 (eighteenth resolution);
effect grants of free, existing or new shares to employees and/or directors of the Company, up to a total number of 150,000 shares, such number including all of the shares granted under the SIP and/or all of the options granted pursuant to the eighth and eighteenth resolutions. Such authorization was granted for a 38-month period and cancelled the unused portion of the existing authorization to grant free shares, which was granted to the Board by the shareholders on 16 June 2011 (nineteenth resolution); and
use the authorizations and authority granted to the Board by the shareholders during the present meeting in case of a take-over bid or a public offer of exchange on the Company’s shares, within the limits set by article L.233-33 of the French Commercial Code. This authorization was granted for an 18-month period, and cancelled the existing, similar authorization which granted by the shareholders on 16 June 2011 (twentieth resolution).

The Company’s shareholders also voted to adopt the amendments to the provisions of article 15 of the Company’s articles of association as proposed by the Board which related to the minimum number of shares to be held by a director of the Company and the period to acquire these shares (twenty-first resolution).
A copy of the updated version of the Company’s articles of association may be obtained at no cost by sending a written request to the Company’s registered office, or downloaded from the Investors section of the Company’s website at: www.globalgraphics.com.

Detailed vote information
A detailed vote result for each of the proposed resolutions is attached as an appendix to this press release.

Information on the number of shares forming the Company’s share capital and attached voting rights
On 27 April 2012 the total number of ordinary shares forming the Company’s share capital was 10,289,781.
A total of 10,296,501 voting rights were attached to these shares, taking into account the 6,720 shares to which a double voting right was attached.
The total number of voting rights which were exercisable in the shareholders’ meetings was 10,130,234 taking into account the 166,267 own shares held by the Company at that date, which were each deprived of their voting rights.

Should you have any further query on the above, please contact Alain Pronost, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, either by e-mail at investor-relations@globalgraphics.com, or by written request sent for his attention at the Company’s registered office.

Editors notes

About Global Graphics

Global Graphics (http://www.globalgraphics.com) is a leading developer of technology of printing and electronic document software. It provides high performance components to the graphic arts/commercial print and digital print markets and for electronic document applications. The Company supplies its technology mostly to a customer base of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), system integrators, software developers and resellers. These partners include the world’s leading vendors of digital pre-press systems, large-format color printers, color proofing systems, digital copiers and printers for the corporate and SOHO (Small Office / Home Office) markets, and a wide variety of market leading software applications

Contact

Alain Pronost, CFO

Tel: + 33 (0)6 62 60 56 51

Compte-rendu de l’assemblee generale mixte du 27 avril 2012

L’assemblée générale mixte des actionnaires de GLOBAL GRAPHICS SA (NYSE-Euronext : GLOG), qui s’est réunie le 27 avril 2012 à Bruxelles, a voté l’ensemble des résolutions qui lui étaient proposées, tant à caractère ordinaire qu’à caractère extraordinaire, à l’unanimité ou à une écrasante majorité.

Résolutions adoptées lors de l’assemblée générale ordinaire (AGO)
Outre l’approbation des comptes sociaux et consolidés de l’exercice clos le 31 décembre 2011, des diverses conventions conclues au cours de ce même exercice, de la proposition d’affectation du résultat social dégagé au titre de cet exercice, et de l’octroi de la somme de € 60 000 à titre de jetons de présence au conseil d’administration pour l’exercice en cours, les actionnaires ont également décidé au cours de cette AGO :

de renouveler les mandats d’administrateurs de Messieurs Gary Fry et Alain Pronost pour une nouvelle durée de quatre années s’achevant au terme de l’assemblée réunie en 2016 pour approuver les comptes du dernier exercice écoulé (sixième et septième résolutions) ;
de reconduire, pour une durée de 26 mois, l’autorisation donnée au conseil d’administration d’attribuer gratuitement des actions ordinaires de la Société dans le cadre du Share Incentive Plan (SIP), dans la limite de 150 000 actions, sur ce plafond s’imputant les options qui seraient octroyées et/ou les actions qui seraient attribuées gratuitement en application des dix-huitième et dix-neuvième résolutions à caractère extraordinaire adoptées par les actionnaires lors de l’assemblée, cette autorisation mettant un terme à l’autorisation de même nature qui avait été donnée le 16 juin 2011 (huitième résolution),
de reconduire, pour une durée de 18 mois, l’autorisation donnée au conseil d’administration de mettre en œuvre un programme de rachat d’actions propres, aux termes duquel est possible le rachat d’un maximum d’un million d’actions de la Société à un cours maximal de € 10,00 l’action, cette autorisation mettant un terme à l’autorisation de même nature qui avait été donnée le 16 juin 2011 et venant à échéance le 16 décembre 2012 (neuvième résolution).

Résolutions adoptées lors de l’assemblée générale extraordinaire (AGE)
Les résolutions votées lors de l’AGE ont donné au conseil d’administration la compétence pour :

n premièrement, procéder à l’annulation des actions rachetées dans le cadre du programme de rachat d’actions propres objet de la neuvième résolution, dans la limite d’un million d’actions, cette autorisation étant accordée pour une durée de 24 mois (dixième résolution),
deuxièmement, augmenter, en une ou plusieurs fois, à la seule discrétion du conseil d’administration, le capital social d’un montant maximal de 10 millions d’euros, par incorporation au capital de réserves, bénéfices, primes ou autres sommes dont la capitalisation serait admise, cette délégation de compétence étant accordée pour une durée de 26 mois et privant d’effet la délégation antérieure accordée par l’assemblée générale du 23 avril 2010 venant à échéance le 23 juin 2012 (onzième résolution),
troisièmement, augmenter en une ou plusieurs fois, à la seule discrétion du conseil d’administration, le capital social d’une valeur nominale maximale de 2 millions d’euros, par émission d’actions ordinaires et/ou de valeurs mobilières donnant accès au capital et/ou donnant droit à l’attribution de titres de créance, soit en maintenant, soit en supprimant le droit préférentiel de souscription attaché aux actions existantes (dans le cadre d’une offre au public ou d’un placement privé), ces délégations de compétence étant accordées pour une période de 26 mois, et privant d’effet les délégations antérieures accordées par l’assemblée générale du 23 avril 2010 venant à échéance le 23 juin 2012 (douzième, treizième, et quatorzième résolutions).

Diverses autres délégations de compétence et autorisations ont également été données au conseil d’administration par les actionnaires de la Société lors de cette assemblée :

l’autorisation, valable pour une durée de 26 mois, d’augmenter le montant des émissions décidées avec maintien ou suppression du droit préférentiel de souscription lorsque le conseil constate une demande de titres excédentaire par rapport au nombre de titres initialement proposé (quinzième résolution),
l’autorisation, valable pour une durée de 26 mois et qui prive d’effet l’autorisation antérieure accordée par l’assemblée générale du 23 avril 2010 venant à échéance le 23 juin 2012, de procéder à l’augmentation du capital social, dans la limite de 10% de son montant, en vue de rémunérer des apports en nature de titres de capital ou de valeurs mobilières donnant accès au capital (seizième résolution),
l’autorisation, valable pour une durée de 26 mois et qui prive d’effet l’autorisation antérieure accordée par l’assemblée générale du 23 avril 2010 venant à échéance le 23 juin 2012, de procéder à une augmentation de capital réservée aux adhérents d’un plan d’épargne d’entreprise, d’un montant maximal de € 40 000 (dix-septième résolution),
l’autorisation, valable pour une durée de 38 mois, d’octroyer des options d’achat et/ou de souscription d’actions aux salariés et/ou mandataires sociaux, dans la limite du plafond de 150 000 actions commun avec celui avec celui visé aux huitième et dix-neuvième résolutions permettant l’attribution gratuite d’actions dans le cadre et en dehors du SIP, cette autorisation mettant fin à l’autorisation de même nature donnée par l’AGE du 16 juin 2011 (dix-huitième résolution) ;
l’autorisation, valable pour une durée de 38 mois, d’attribuer gratuitement des actions ordinaires, existantes ou à émettre, aux salariés et/ou mandataires sociaux, dans la limite du plafond de 150 000 actions commun avec celui visé aux huitième et dix-huitième résolutions permettant l’attribution gratuite d’actions dans le cadre du SIP et l’octroi d’options visé, cette autorisation mettant fin à l’autorisation de même nature donnée par l’AGE du 16 juin 2011 (dix-neuvième résolution) ;
l’autorisation, valable pour une durée de 18 mois, et qui prive d’effet l’autorisation antérieure accordée par l’AGE du 16 juin 2011, d’utiliser les délégations de compétences et/ou les autorisations données au conseil par les actionnaires au cours de la présente assemblée en période d’offre publique d’achat ou d’échange des titres de la Société, dans les limites posées par l’article L.233-33 du Code de commerce (vingtième résolution).

Modifications apportées aux statuts de la Société
Les actionnaires ont également adopté les modifications proposées par le conseil d’administration dans la rédaction de l’article 15 des statuts de la Société relatives au nombre minimal d’actions que chaque administrateur de la Société doit détenir et au délai pour les acquérir (vingt-et-unième résolution).
Une version à jour des statuts de la Société peut être obtenue sans frais sur demande écrite adressée au siège social, ou téléchargée de la rubrique Investors du site Internet du Groupe à l’adresse suivante : www.globalgraphics.com.

Résultat du vote des résolutions
Une présentation détaillée du résultat du vote pour chacune des résolutions soumises au vote des actionnaires de la Société figure en annexe du présent communiqué.

Information sur le nombre d’actions et de droits de vote
Au jour de l’assemblée générale, le nombre d’actions formant le capital de la Société était de 10 289 781 actions, auxquelles étaient rattachés 10 296 501 droits de vote, du fait de l’existence de 6 720 actions auxquelles était rattaché un droit de vote double.
Le nombre de droits de vote exerçables en assemblée était de 10 130 234, compte tenu des 166 267 actions auto-détenues par la Société, qui étaient privées des droits de vote qui leur étaient attachés.

Editors notes

A propos de Global Graphics

Global Graphics est un groupe leader dans le développement et la commercialisation de solutions logicielles répondant aux besoins des secteurs de l’impression numérique et de l’impression commerciale, ainsi qu’en matière de gestion de documents électroniques à usage professionnel.
Le Groupe compte parmi ses clients des grands comptes, des intégrateurs de systèmes qui figurent parmi les plus grands fabricants mondiaux de systèmes pré-presse numériques, d’imprimantes couleur grand format, de systèmes d’épreuves couleur, de copieurs et d’imprimantes pour les marchés professionnels, des grandes entreprises ou des PME, ainsi qu’une grande variété de sociétés de développement logiciel.

Contact

Alain Pronost, directeur financier groupe

Tél. : + 33 (0) 6 62 60 56 51 

Global Graphics: resultats consolides du premier trimestre 2012

Pompey (France), le 27 avril 2012 – GLOBAL GRAPHICS SA (NYSE-Euronext : GLOG), groupe à l’expertise reconnue dans le développement de solutions performantes pour la gestion de documents électroniques et l’impression numérique, a annoncé ses résultats consolidés pour le premier trimestre 2012, qui font apparaître un chiffre d’affaires de 2,0 millions d’euros et une perte nette de 0,3 million d’euros, en ligne avec les attentes de la direction pour la période.

La comparaison des chiffres-clés du premier trimestre 2012 avec ceux du premier trimestre 2011 met en exergue les éléments suivants :

un chiffre d’affaires consolidé de 2,0 millions d’euros ce trimestre (2,0 millions d’euros également à taux de change constants), contre 2,1 millions d’euros au premier trimestre 2010,
un résultat opérationnel négatif de 0,3 million d’euros ce trimestre, comme au premier trimestre 2011,
un résultat opérationnel retraité négatif de 0,3 million d’euros ce trimestre, comme au premier trimestre 2011,
un résultat avant impôt retraité négatif de 0,3 million d’euros ce trimestre (soit une perte avant impôt retraitée de € 0,03 par action), contre un résultat avant impôt retraité négatif de 0,4 million d’euros (soit une perte avant impôt retraitée de € 0,04 par action) au premier trimestre 2011,
une perte nette de 0,3 million d’euros ce trimestre (soit une perte nette de € 0,03 par action), contre une perte nette de 0,1 million d’euros au premier trimestre 2011 (soit une perte nette de € 0,01 par action),
une perte nette retraitée de 0,3 million d’euros ce trimestre (soit une perte nette retraitée de € 0,03 par action), contre une perte nette retraitée de 0,1 million d’euros au premier trimestre 2011 (soit une perte nette retraitée de € 0,01 par action).

Gary Fry, directeur général du groupe Global Graphics, a commenté ces chiffres comme suit : “nos ventes et nos résultats sont en ligne avec nos attentes pour le premier trimestre de l’exercice.”
“Dans le marché de l’impression commerciale, nous avons poursuivi ce trimestre notre pénétration de ce marché en concluant deux nouveaux contrats de fourniture de notre technologie RIP pour des applications d’impression jet d’encre à grande vitesse. Nous sommes également satisfaits de notre participation au salon Page au mois de février dernier, dont nous nous attendons à ce qu’elle se traduise par de nouvelles opportunités d’activité sur le marché japonais tant pour notre segment Print que notre segment eDoc.”
“Nous avons lancé la plateforme logicielle Binder dédiée au marché du droit en janvier dernier ; la réaction tant des intégrateurs de systèmes que des cabinets d’avocats a été très positive et a mis en exergue le fait que notre technologie arrivait à point pour pallier un manque sur ce marché.”

Analyse des résultats consolidés du Groupe au premier trimestre 2012

Une analyse détaillée des résultats consolidés du Groupe au premier trimestre 2012, qui comprend une comparaison avec les résultats consolidés du premier trimestre 2011, figure aux notes 2 et 3 du rapport de gestion résumé du conseil d’administration du Groupe établi au titre du premier trimestre 2012, qui est joint au présent communiqué de presse, comme le sont également les comptes consolidés résumés intermédiaires pour cette période.

Commentaires sur les perspectives
Monsieur Gary Fry a poursuivi comme suit : “avec l’édition 2012 de drupa qui va s’ouvrir dans les prochains jours, nous sommes heureux de constater que nombre de nouveaux produits au cœur desquels figurent nos RIP Harlequin et Jaws vont être lancés à cette occasion, et anticipons que les livraisons de ces produits devraient se traduire positivement en terme de chiffre d’affaires.”
“Une autre opportunité très intéressante qui se présente à nous est la possibilité de faire croître l’activité de notre segment dédié à la gestion des documents électroniques en attaquant d’autres marchés verticaux avec Binder, maintenant que cette technologie a fait la démonstration qu’elle était performante dans le marché du droit.”

Assemblée générale 2012
L’assemblée générale des actionnaires de la Société est prévue aujourd’hui, 27 avril 2012, à 11 heures à l’hôtel le Châtelain, 17 rue du Châtelain, à Bruxelles, en Belgique.
L’ordre du jour définitif, le texte des résolutions soumises au vote des actionnaires ainsi que les modalités de vote sont disponibles pour consultation et/ou téléchargement dans la rubrique Investisseurs du site Internet du Groupe à l’adresse suivante :
http://www.globalgraphics.com/fr/investisseurs/assemblée-générale/

Résultats du deuxième trimestre et du premier semestre de l’exercice 2012
Le Groupe prévoit d’annoncer ses résultats consolidés pour le deuxième trimestre et le premier semestre de l’exercice 2012 le jeudi 30 août 2012 avant l’ouverture du marché.

Editors notes

A propos de Global Graphics

Précisions sur les affirmations à caractère prévisionnel (forward-looking statements)
Ce communiqué de presse contient, en plus d’informations historiques, des affirmations à caractère prévisionnel qui sont fondées sur des hypothèses, qui impliquent la prise en compte de certains risques ainsi que d’incertitudes.
Ces affirmations à caractère prévisionnel englobent aussi bien des affirmations relatives à la croissance et aux projets d’expansion du Groupe que des affirmations sur des résultats prévus pour des périodes futures. De telles affirmations sont basées sur les prévisions actuelles de la direction du Groupe et sont sujettes à un certain nombre d’aléas quant à leur réalisation, qui, s’ils devaient se concrétiser, pourraient conduire à ce que les résultats réels s’avèrent être significativement différents de ceux énoncés dans les présentes affirmations à caractère prévisionnel.

Contact

Alain Pronost, directeur financier groupe

Tél. : + 33 (0)6 62 60 56 51

Resultaten Global Graphics eerste kwartaal 2012

GLOBAL GRAPHICS SA (NYSE-Euronext: GLOG), de expert in de ontwikkeling van software voor e-documenten en druktoepassingen, maakt de geconsolideerde financiële resultaten bekend van het kwartaal eindigend op 31 maart 2012, rapporteert een omzet van 2,0 miljoen euro en een nettoverlies van 0,03 euro per aandeel voor het kwartaal, overeenkomstig de verwachtingen van het management voor deze periode.

De vergelijkingen van het eerste kwartaal van het boekjaar eindigend op 31 december 2012 met hetzelfde kwartaal van vorig boekjaar omvatten:

omzet van 2,0 miljoen euro dit kwartaal (2,0 miljoen euro eveneens tegen wisselkoersen van Q1 2011) t.o.v. 2,1 miljoen euro in Q1 2011;
bedrijfsverlies van 0,3 miljoen euro dit kwartaal, zoals in Q1 2011;
aangepast bedrijfsverlies van 0,3 miljoen euro dit kwartaal, zoals in Q1 2011;
aangepast bedrijfsverlies vóór belastingen voor dit kwartaal van 0,3 miljoen euro (of een aangepast bedrijfsverlies vóór belastingen van 0,03 euro per aandeel), t.o.v. een aangepast bedrijfsverlies vóór belastingen van 0,4 miljoen euro (of een aangepast bedrijfsverlies vóór belastingen van 0,04 euro per aandeel) in Q1 2011;
nettoverlies van 0,3 miljoen euro voor dit kwartaal (of een nettoverlies van 0,03 euro per aandeel), t.o.v. een nettoverlies van 0,1 miljoen euro (of een nettoverlies van 0,01 euro per aandeel) in Q1 2011; en
aangepast nettoverlies van 0,3 miljoen euro voor dit kwartaal (of een aangepast nettoverlies van 0,03 euro per aandeel), vergeleken met een aangepast nettoverlies van 0,1 miljoen euro (of een aangepast nettoverlies van 0,01 euro per aandeel) in Q1 2011.

Gary Fry, Chief Executive Officer, lichtte de resultaten toe: “Onze omzet en bedrijfsresultaten in het eerste kwartaal van het jaar stemden overeen met onze verwachtingen.”

“In het productieprintsegment hebben we dit kwartaal ons succes voortgezet met de ondertekening van twee bijkomende contracten voor de levering van onze RIP technologie voor hoge snelheidsinkjettoepassingen. De Page trade show in februari was eveneens erg succesvol voor zowel onze print- als e-documentsoftware, waarvan we verwachten dat ze zullen bijdragen tot nieuwe zakelijke mogelijkheden in de Japanse markten.”

“Wij lanceerden het Binder softwareplatform bij advocatenkantoren in januari, en de respons van zowel systeemintegratoren als advocatenkantoren is zeer positief, wat aantoont dat deze technologie een antwoord is op een reëel gat in die markt.”

Analyse van de resultaten van dit kwartaal
Een gedetailleerde bespreking van de resultaten van dit kwartaal, dat eindigde op 31 maart 2012, met inbegrip van een vergelijking met de vergelijkbare periode van vorig boekjaar, vindt u in nota’s 2 en 3 bij het interim management report van de Raad van Bestuur voor dit kwartaal, dat is aangehecht aan dit perscommuniqué, samen met de beknopte tussentijdse financiële resultaten voor deze periode.

Vooruitzichten
Gary Fry verklaarde: “Met het oog op de Drupa 2012 handelsbeurs, die over een paar dagen plaatsvindt in Düsseldorf, zijn we erg opgetogen over de nieuwe producten, die door onze partners gelanceerd worden en waarin de Harlequin en Jaws RIP applicaties toegepast worden en de hieruit te verwachten extra volume en inkomsten.”
“Even opwindend is de gelegenheid om onze e-document toepassingen rond Binder uit te breiden naar andere verticale markten gezien het succes ervan bij de advocatenkantoren.”

Algemene vergadering van aandeelhouders
De algemene vergadering van aandeelhouders heeft plaats op vrijdag, 27 april 2012 om 11u00 CET in Hôtel Le Châtelain, Kasteleinstraat 17 te Brussel (België).
De definitieve dagorde, de voorgestelde besluiten en de stemprocedures kunnen gedownload worden via het luik “Investors” op de website van de onderneming http://www.globalgraphics.com/investors/annual-shareholders-meeting/.
Bekendmaking van de resultaten van het tweede kwartaal en het eerste halfjaar van 2012
Global Graphics verwacht de geconsolideerde financiële resultaten voor het kwartaal en het halfjaar dat eindigt op 30 juni 2012 bekend te maken op donderdag, 30 augustus 2012 vóór beurstijd.

Editors notes

Over Global Graphics

Global Graphics is een toonaangevende ontwikkelaar van software voor e-documenten en druktoepassingen. Het levert krachtige oplossingen voor de grafische en commerciële drukindustrie, voor de markt van digitale druk, voor kenniswerkers en professionele softwaretoepassingen. De klantenkring bestaat uit apparatuurproducenten (OEMs), systeemintegratoren, softwareontwikkelaars en distributeurs. Daartoe behoren de belangrijkste merken van digitale prepress-systemen, breedformaatkleurenprinters, kleurproefsystemen, digitale kopieerapparaten en printers voor de kantoor- en SOHO- (Small Office / Home Office) markt en een brede waaier van toonaangevende softwaretoepassingen.

Toekomstgerichte verklaringen
Dit persbericht bevat, naast historische informatie, toekomstgerichte verklaringen die risico’s en onzekerheden inhouden. Dit omvat verklaringen aangaande de groei- en expansieplannen van de onderneming, haar financiering en de verwachte resultaten voor toekomstige perioden. Dergelijke verklaringen steunen op de huidige verwachtingen van het management en zijn onderhevig aan een aantal onzekerheden en risico’s die ertoe zouden kunnen leiden dat de feitelijke resultaten materieel verschillen van die beschreven in de toekomstgerichte verklaringen. Hoewel het management ervan overtuigd is dat zijn verwachtingen die in de toekomstgerichte verklaringen naar voren komen redelijk zijn, gebaseerd op de thans beschikbare informatie, kan het aan niemand garanderen dat de verwachtingen juist zullen blijken. Dienovereenkomstig is het aangewezen dat lezers niet louter en alleen op deze toekomstgerichte verklaringen vertrouwen. In ieder geval zijn deze verklaringen van toepassing op de datum van deze persmededeling. De vennootschap neemt geen enkele verplichting op zich om de hier geuite verklaringen te herzien of te actualiseren teneinde gebeurtenissen of omstandigheden van na de datum van deze mededeling of nieuwe informatie of het voorkomen van onvoorzien gebeurtenissen te reflecteren.

Contact

Alain Pronost, Chief Financial Officer

Tel: + 33 (0)6 62 60 56 51
Jill Taylor, Director of Corporate Communications

Tel: + 44 (0)1954 283 074

Global Graphics reports first quarter 2012 results

GLOBAL GRAPHICS SA (NYSE-Euronext: GLOG), experts in developing e-document and printing software, announces its consolidated results for the quarter ended 31 March 2012, and reports sales of Euro 2.0 million and a net loss of Euro 0.03 per share for the quarter, in line with management’s expectations for that period.

Comparisons for the first quarter of the financial year ending 31 December 2012 with the same quarter of the previous financial year include:

sales of Euro 2.0 million this quarter (Euro 2.0 million also at Q1 2011 exchange rates) compared with Euro 2.1 million in Q1 2011;
an operating loss of Euro 0.3 million this quarter, as in Q1 2011;
an adjusted operating loss of Euro 0.3 million this quarter, as in Q1 2011;
an adjusted pre-tax loss of Euro 0.3 million this quarter (or an adjusted pre-tax loss of Euro 0.03 per share), compared with an adjusted pre-tax loss of Euro 0.4 million (or an adjusted pre-tax loss of Euro 0.04 per share) in Q1 2011;
a net loss of Euro 0.3 million this quarter (or a net loss of Euro 0.03 per share), compared with a net loss of Euro 0.1 million (or a net loss of Euro 0.01 per share) in Q1 2011; and
an adjusted net loss of Euro 0.3 million this quarter (or an adjusted net loss of Euro 0.03 per share), compared with an adjusted net loss of Euro 0.1 million (or an adjusted net loss of Euro 0.01 per share) in Q1 2011.

Commenting on the quarter’s performance, Gary Fry, Global Graphics’ Chief Executive Officer, said: “Our sales and operating performance in the first quarter of the year was in line with our expectations.

“In the production printing segment this quarter, we have continued our successful run by signing two additional contracts to supply out RIP technology for high-speed inkjet solutions. We also had another successful Page trade show in February for both our printing and electronic document software, which we expect will contribute to new business opportunities in the Japanese markets.”

“We launched the Binder software platform into the legal market last January, and the response from both system integrators and law firms has been very positive, underlining how this technology fulfils a real gap in that market.”

Analysis of the Company’s performance during the quarter
A detailed discussion of the Company’s operating performance for the quarter ended 31 March 2012, including a comparison with the previous financial year’s comparative period, is included in notes 2 and 3 to the interim management report of the Company’s Board of Directors for that quarter which is attached to this press release, together with the condensed consolidated interim financial statements for the same period.

Future prospects
Gary Fry added: “With the drupa 2012 trade show in Düsseldorf now only a few days away, we are very excited about the new products being launched by our partners using the Harlequin and the Jaws RIP engines and the subsequent shipments and revenues that we anticipate should ensue.”
“Equally exciting is the opportunity to scale up our electronic document business around Binder into other vertical markets now that it has been proven in the legal market.”

Annual meeting of the Company’s shareholders
The annual general meeting will take place today, Friday 27 April 2012 at 11.00 CET, at the Hotel du Châtelain, 17 rue du Châtelain, in Brussels (Belgium).
The final agenda, proposed resolutions and voting procedures are available for download in the investor section of the Company’s website at: http://www.globalgraphics.com/investors/annual-shareholders-meeting/.

Second quarter and first six months of 2011 results announcement
Global Graphics expects to announce its consolidated results for the quarter and the six-month period ending 30 June 2012 on Thursday 30 August 2012 before market opening.

Editors notes

About Global Graphics

Global Graphics is a leading developer of e-document and printing software. It provides high-performance solutions to the graphic arts/commercial print and digital print markets and for knowledge worker and professional software applications.
The Company’s customers include Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), system integrators, software developers and resellers and number the world’s leading brands of digital pre-press systems, large-format color printers, color proofing systems, digital copiers and printers for the corporate and SOHO (Small Office / Home Office) markets, as well as a wide variety of market leading software applications.

Forward-looking statements
This press release contains, in addition to historical information, forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These include statements regarding the Company’s growth, funding, expansion plans and expected results for future periods. Such statements are based on management’s current expectations and are subject to a number of uncertainties and risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Although management believes that their expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable based on information currently available to them, they cannot assure any reader that the expectations will prove to have been correct. Accordingly, any reader should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. In any event, these statements speak only as of the date of this release. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any of them, neither to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release, nor to reflect new information nor the occurrence of unanticipated events.

Contact

CFO Alain Pronost/Global Graphics
+33 (0)6 62 60 56 51

TKS chooses “digital” Harlequin RIP to drive inkjet newspaper press

The latest version of the “digital” Harlequin RIP®, has been chosen by Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho (TKS) of Japan to drive a new inkjet newspaper press that will be launched in the second half of 2012. The web fed JETLEADER 1500 will be used for high-speed, full-colour digital newspaper production, printing 600 x 600 dpi duplex at 150 metres per minute. Version 3 of the Harlequin Host Renderer, recently unveiled by Global Graphics ahead of drupa ( Hall 7.0 Stand A21) will be the core of the digital print workflow feeding the presses.

TKS selected the Harlequin Host Renderer for its speed and flexibility. “The big advantage”, says Mr. Hashimoto from TKS, “is the dramatically increased performance gained by using Harlequin Parallel Pages™ which greatly accelerates the page processing time.

“We also found the Harlequin Host Renderer easy to configure and customize to meet our specific requirements – such as our variable print solution and to accommodate the requirements of our customers. For example, the in-RIP simple imposition feature was very flexible and we could customize it to handle complicated page layouts with PostScript® features. We also opted to licence Global Graphics’ in-RIP colour management and trapping solutions.”

A number of significant new features in the Harlequin Host Renderer 3 increase processing power so that pages pass through the RIP at a faster pace than ever before. Harlequin Parallel Pages™ allows the RIP to interpret one page while it’s still rendering the previous one. This allows print shops to take maximum advantage of multi-core computers.

The Harlequin VariData™ feature accelerates the processing time of regular PDF files containing variable data including, but not only, PDF/VT files.

The Harlequin Host Renderer is also available as a 64-bit build to access additional memory when it’s needed for pages with large amounts of data.

Editors notes

About Global Graphics
Global Graphics Software (http://www.globalgraphics.com/) is a leading developer of OEM printing and electronic document software including high-performance RIPs, PDF document, workflow and color solutions. Customers partners include the world’s leading vendors of digital pre-press systems, large-format color printers, color proofing systems and software applications such as HP, Quark, Kodak , Miyakoshi, SIS and Agfa.Trademarks
Global Graphics and the Harlequin RIP are trademarks of Global Graphics Software Ltd. which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other brand and product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact

Jill Taylor, Global Graphics

Tel: +44 (0)1954 283074

Email: jill.taylor@globalgraphics.com

Mise a disposition du Rapport Financier Annuel pour l’exercice 2011

La version française du rapport financier annuel pour l’exercice clos le 31 décembre 2011 est disponible, pour consultation ou téléchargement, à l’adresse électronique suivante :
http://www.globalgraphics.com/fr/investisseurs/rapports-financiers-annuels/

La traduction en anglais du rapport financier annuel pour l’exercice clos le 31 décembre 2011 est disponible, pour consultation ou téléchargement, à l’adresse électronique suivante :
http://www.globalgraphics.com/investors/annual-financial-reports/

Des exemplaires de ce rapport sont disponibles sans frais, sur simple demande envoyée par courriel à l’adresse suivante : investor-relations@globalgraphics.com, ou par courrier adressé au siège social, à l’attention du Chief Financial Officer.

Editors notes

A propos de Global Graphics

Global Graphics est un groupe leader dans le développement et la commercialisation de solutions logicielles pour l’impression numérique et la gestion de documents électroniques.
Le Groupe commercialise ses solutions auprès des acteurs des marchés des arts graphiques, de l’impression commerciale, et de l’impression numérique, ainsi qu’auprès des développeurs de solutions logicielles à usage professionnel et encore du knowledge worker.
Le Groupe compte parmi ses clients des fabricants d’équipements (Original Equipment Manufacturers ou OEMs), des intégrateurs de systèmes, des sociétés de développement logiciel et des revendeurs.

Contact

CFO Alain Pronost/Global Graphics
+33 3 83 49 45 08

Availability of the 2011 Annual Financial Report

The French version of the annual financial report for the year ended 31 December 2011 may be browsed on, or downloaded from, the following page of the Investor section of the Company’s website: http://www.globalgraphics.com/fr/investisseurs/rapports-financiers-annuels/

The English translation of the annual financial report for the year ended 31 December 2011 may be browsed on, or downloaded from, the following page of the Investor section of the Company’s website: http://www.globalgraphics.com/investors/annual-financial-reports/

Should you wish to receive printed copies of this report, which will be sent free of charge, please send either an e-mail to investor-relations@globalgraphics.com or a request in writing to the Company’s registered office, for the attention of the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.

Editors notes

About Global Graphics

Global Graphics is a leading developer and supplier of e-document and printing software.
It provides high-performance solutions to the graphic arts/commercial print and digital print markets and for knowledge worker and professional software applications.
The Company’s customers include Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), system integrators, software developers and resellers.

Contact

CFO Alain Pronost/Global Graphics
+33 3 83 49 45 08

Notice of the meeting of the shareholders constituting notice of convocation

Global Graphics SA Notice of the combined shareholders’ meeting convened on 27 April 2012 Unofficial translation from the French language original

AGENDA OF THE MEETING
Resolutions to be submitted as ordinary resolutions

Approval of the Company’s statutory accounts for the year ended 31 December 2011 (1st resolution).
Approval of the Company’s consolidated accounts for the year ended 31 December 2011 (2nd resolution).
Allocation of the net statutory profit for the year ended 31 December 2011 (3rd resolution).
Approval of the transactions with regulated related parties which are referred to under article L.225-38 and subsequent articles of the French Commercial Code, and which were entered into during the year ended 31 December 2011 (4th resolution).
Approval of the amount of attendance fees to be allocated to the members of the Company’s Board of Directors for the current year (5th resolution).
Renewal of the term of office of Mr. Gary Fry as a director of the Company (6th resolution).
Renewal of the term of office of Mr. Alain Pronost as a director of the Company (7th resolution).
Authorisation to be granted to the Company’s Board of Directors to grant free shares under the Share Incentive Plan (8th resolution).
Authorisation to be granted to the Company’s Board of Directors to repurchase own shares of the Company in accordance with the provisions of article L.225-209 of the French Commercial Code (9th resolution).

Resolutions to be submitted as extraordinary resolutions

Authorisation to be granted to the Company’s Board of Directors to cancel own shares previously repurchased as part of the Company’s share repurchase programme referred to under article L.225-209 of the French Commercial Code (10th resolution).
Authority to be given to the Company’s Board of Directors to increase the Company’s share capital through the incorporation of share premiums, retained earnings or otherwise retained profit (11th resolution).
Authority to be given to the Company’s Board of Directors to increase the Company’s share capital through the issue of ordinary shares and/or other financial instruments giving right to the share capital and/or the allocation of debt securities, while maintaining the existing shareholders’ preferential subscription rights (12th resolution).
Authority to be given to the Company’s Board of Directors to increase the Company’s share capital through the issue of ordinary shares and/or other financial instruments giving right to the share capital and/or the allocation of debt securities, while waiving the existing shareholders’ preferential subscription rights, by way of a public offer of such shares and/or financial instruments (13th resolution).
Authority to be given to the Company’s Board of Directors to increase the Company’s share capital through the issue of ordinary shares and/or other financial instruments giving right to the share capital and/or the allocation of debt securities, while waiving the existing shareholders’ preferential subscription rights, by way of a private placement of such shares and/or financial instruments (14th resolution).
Authorisation to be granted to the Company’s Board of Directors to augment the amount of share capital increases above the initially planned amount in case of an excess of demand over the number of shares initially planned to be issued (15th resolution).
Authorisation to be granted to the Company’s Board of Directors to increase the Company’s share capital up to a maximum of 10% of the existing number of shares forming the share capital to pay for any contribution in kind made to the Company in the form of shares or any other financial instruments giving right to such shares (16th resolution).
Authority to be granted to the Company’s Board of Directors to increase the Company’s share capital through an issue of ordinary shares of the Company which would be reserved to those employees participating to a plan d’épargne d’entreprise as defined in article L.3332-18 and subsequent articles of the French Labour Code (17th resolution).
Authorisation to be granted to the Company’s Board of Directors to grant options to subscribe for and/or purchase shares of the Company (18th resolution).
Authorisation to be granted to the Company’s Board of Directors to allocate free, existing or new shares (19th resolution).
Authorisation to be granted to the Company’s Board of Directors to use authorisations which were granted by the shareholders in case of a public offer on the Company’s shares (20th resolution).
Amendments to be made to the provisions of article 15 of the Company’s articles of association relating to the minimum number of shares to be held by each director of the Company and the period to acquire these shares (21th resolution).
Powers to carry out corporate formalities (22th resolution).

DRAFT RESOLUTIONS TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE SHAREHOLDERS

The complete text of the draft resolutions (either in French or in English) are available for download in the investor centre on the Company’s website at: www.globalgraphics.com and on the NYSE-Euronext website at: www.euronext.com

Shareholders may also request a hard copy of these resolutions by sending an e-mail to the following e-mail address: investor-relations@globalgraphics.com or writing to the attention of the Chief Financial Officer at the registered office of the Company in Pompey (France).

PARTICIPATION IN THE SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING
Preliminary formalities
All shareholders may take part in the meeting of the Company’s shareholders regardless of how many shares they hold in the Company, notwithstanding any contrary provisions of the Company’s articles of association.
Any shareholder can be represented at the meeting by another shareholder, by his or her spouse or by his or her partner in the context of a civil partnership. Any shareholder can also be represented by any natural or legal person of his or her choice, in accordance with applicable provisions of article L.225-106 of the French Commercial Code.
In accordance with article R.225-85 of the French Commercial Code, the right to take part in the meeting of shareholders of a company whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market, or to performing transactions on a central depositary, is proved by the registration of shares in the name of the shareholder or of the intermediary registered on his or her behalf in accordance with the provisions of the seventh paragraph of article L.228-1 of the French Commercial Code, on the third business day preceding the date of the meeting at midnight, Paris time, either in the registered share accounts kept by the Company (or its agent), or in the bearer share accounts kept by the authorised financial intermediary.

In the case of registered shareholders, the registration in these accounts on 24 April 2012 at midnight, Paris time, will be sufficient to allow them to take part in the meeting of the Company’s shareholders.
In the case of bearer shareholders, registration of their shares in bearer share accounts kept by authorised financial intermediaries will be established by a statement of investment in the Company’s shares issued by those financial intermediaries (including under the form of an electronic statement when conditions which are set out under article R.225-61 of the French Commercial Code are met), which must be attached to the postal voting from, or to the proxy form, or to the request for an admission card prepared in the name of the shareholder or on behalf of a shareholder represented by the registered intermediary.

A certificate can also be issued to the shareholders wishing to take part in the meeting of the Company’s shareholders in person and who have not received their admission card by midnight, Paris time, on the third business day immediately preceding the date of the meeting.

Ways to participate in the meeting
Shareholders wishing to attend the meeting of the Company’s shareholders in person may ask for an admission card in the following way:

In the case of registered shareholders: every registered shareholder will automatically receive the voting form attached to the notice meeting, which he or she must complete, stating that he or she wishes to take part in the meeting of the Company’s shareholders and obtain an admission ticket, sign and return to CACEIS Corporate Trust, Service Assemblées Générales, 14 rue Rouget de Lisle, 92862 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex 9 (France).
In the case of bearer shareholders: bearer shareholders wishing to attend the meeting of the Company’s shareholders must ask the authorised intermediary which manages their account to arrange for an admission card to be sent to them.

Shareholders who do not attend the meeting of the Company’s shareholders but wish to vote by post or be represented by giving a proxy to the chairman of the shareholders’ meeting, to their spouse or partner in the context of a civil partnership, or to another person, may:

in the case of registered shareholders, send the postal voting or proxy form which will be sent to them with the notice of the meeting to CACEIS Corporate Trust, Service Assemblées Générales, 14 rue Rouget de Lisle, 92862 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex 9 (France); or
in the case of bearer shareholders, request this form from the authorised intermediary which manages their account, or from CACEIS Corporate Trust, Service Assemblées Générales, 14 rue Rouget de Lisle, 92862 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex 9 (France), by sending them a registered letter at any time between the date when the meeting was convened and six (6) calendar days before the date of the shareholders’ meeting.

In addition, no later than 5 April 2012, the postal voting or proxy form will be available for download from the Company’s website at: www.globalgraphics.com.
In order to be taken into account, postal voting forms, duly completed and signed, must be received by CACEIS Corporate Trust, Service Assemblées Générales, 14 rue Rouget de Lisle, 92862 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex 9 (France), no later than three (3) days before the meeting date.
Proxies granted for this meeting are valid for any further meetings which may be convened with the same agenda and may be cancelled by the shareholders in the same form as was required for the appointment of their proxy.
No shareholder that has already voted by post, sent in a proxy or requested an admission card or a statement of investment in the Company’s shares will be able to choose another manner to take part in the meeting of the Company’s shareholders.
In accordance with the provisions of article R.225-85 of the French Commercial Code, a shareholder can sell all or part of the shares he or she holds in the Company at any time.
However, if the sale takes place before midnight, Paris time, on the third business day immediately preceding the date of the meeting of the Company’s shareholders, the Company will, as the case may be, invalidate or make amendments to the postal vote, proxy, admission card, or statement of ownership in the Company’s shares. For this purpose, the authorised financial intermediary which maintains the account shall give notice of such sale to the Company or its agent, and shall send it the appropriate information.
No sale or other transaction which would be completed after midnight, Paris time, on the third business day immediately preceding the date of the meeting of the Company’s shareholders, regardless of the method used, will be notified by the authorised financial intermediary or taken into account by the Company, notwithstanding any agreement providing for the contrary.
No provision will be made for voting at this meeting by means of video conferencing, or other means of telecommunication and electronic transmission: accordingly, no site of the kind referred to in article R.225-61 of the French Commercial Code will be made available for that purpose.

Request for the addition to the meeting’s agenda of items or draft resolutions
by the Company’s shareholders
One or several shareholders representing in excess of the minimum fraction of the share capital required by applicable legal and regulatory provisions may, in the 20-day period following the date of issue of this notice, request the addition to the meeting’s agenda of items or draft resolutions, under the conditions set out in articles L.225-105 and R.225-71 to R.225-73 of the French Commercial Code.
Requests for the addition to the meeting’s agenda of items, including the rationale for such a request, and draft resolutions must be sent within the twenty calendar day period following the date of issue of this notice, and not earlier than the twenty-fifth day preceding the date of the shareholders’ meeting, either by registered letter sent to the Company’s registered office, or by email sent to investor-relations@globalgraphics.com.

The request must be accompanied by:

the item to be added to the meeting’s agenda, and the rationale for such addition, or the text of the draft resolutions, which may be accompanied by a brief summary of the rationale for such proposed resolutions;
a statement of ownership of the Company’s shares, proving that the person making the request owns or represents the fraction of the Company’s share capital required by article R.225-71 of the French Commercial Code referred to above; and by
information required at the fifth paragraph of article R.225-83 of the French Commercial Code if the draft resolution deals with the proposed appointment of a director.

The examination by the shareholders during the meeting of the additional agenda items and draft resolutions which have been filed by the shareholders shall be subject to the provision by those making these requests of a new statement of ownership proving the registration of the Company’s shares in the same accounts and conditions than indicated above, no later than midnight, Paris time, on the third business day immediately preceding the date of the meeting.
The list of the items added to the agenda of the shareholders’ meeting, as well as the text of the draft resolutions presented by the Company’s shareholders under the conditions mentioned above, will be published in the Investors section of the Company’s website at: www.globalgraphics.com.

Written questions from shareholders
Any shareholder is entitled to put questions in writing to the Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors until the fourth business day immediately preceding the date of the shareholders’ meeting.
Questions shall be asked by sending either a registered letter to the registered office of the Company, or an e-mail to: investor-relations@globalgraphics.com.
In order to be taken into account, questions must be accompanied by a statement of ownership in the Company’s shares.
When more than one question has the same content, a single reply may be given by the Company.
The reply to a written question will be deemed given if provided in the Investors section of the Company’s website at: www.globalgraphics.com.

Documents made available to the Company’s shareholders
As required by law, all documents which must be provided to the shareholders ahead of a general meeting will be made available to them at the Company’s registered office within the time limits set by law.
The Company’s shareholders may also obtain the documents provided for by articles R.225-81 and R.225-83 of the French Commercial Code by making a written request to CACEIS Corporate Trust, Service Assemblées Générales, 14 rue Rouget de Lisle, 92862 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex 9 (France), within the time limits set by law.
Finally, the documents which have to be presented to the Company’s shareholders, together with the other information and documents provided for by article R.225-73-1 of the French Commercial Code will be available in the Investors section of the Company’s website at: www.globalgraphics.com, at the latest twenty-one days before the date of the meeting of the Company’s shareholders.
This notice is valid as the final notice of the meeting, provided that no modifications are made to the meeting’s agenda pursuant to requests for the registration of additional draft resolutions made by shareholders of the Company.

The Board of Directors
Please note that this document is an unofficial translation (provided for the convenience of English-speaking shareholders) of the notice of the meeting of the Company’s shareholders which is scheduled on 27 April 2012, and of the proposed resolutions, which were originally issued in French in accordance with applicable regulations, notably French Company Law.

In case of any discrepancy or dispute between this translation and the original French version, the latter version would govern.
The original version in French is available upon request at the Company’s registered office, and can also be found in, and downloaded from, the Investors section of the Company’s website at: www.globalgraphics.com.