Société BIC Releases Report of Shareholders' Meeting

Société BIC, the original French company behind U.S. subsidiary BIC Corporation, held its Joint Extraordinary and Ordinary Annual Shareholders' Meeting on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 in Clichy, France. The meeting was chaired by Bruno Bich, chairman of the board.

During the meeting, the board approved the payment, from May 25, 2011, of an ordinary dividend amount of 1.90 euros per share, up 35.7 percent compared to the last year ordinary dividend, and all of the resolutions tabled for the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, among them: