GRUPO CASA
SABA, S.A.B. DE C.V.
General Ordinary Shareholders Meeting
April 29, 2008
SUMMARY OF RESOLUTIONS
GENERAL ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS MEETING
I. Presentation and,
in its case, approval of the report submitted by the Board of Directors
regarding the company’s performance during the fiscal year ended
December 31, 2007, pursuant to Article 172 of the General Law of Commercial
Companies, including the financial statements for the year ended on December
31, 2007.
The Company
and its subsidiaries’ financial statements were approved in their
entirety for the fiscal year beginning on January 1 and ending on December
31, 2007. In addition, the shareholders were informed that, to date,
the Company has complied with all of its fiscal obligations for fiscal
year 2006 and that the report related to its compliance with its fiscal
obligations was presented and approved. The Board of Directors’
report, which includes: a report regarding the main policies and accounting
principals as well as information pertaining to how the financial information
was prepared and a report that addressed the operations and business
activities for which the Board participated in, was reviewed and approved.
II. Presentation
and, in its case, approval of a proposal for the allocation of profits,
including the decree and payment of a shareholders dividend in the amount
of $170,000,000.00 (one hundred seventy million pesos 00/100 Mexican pesos).
It was resolved
to apply 5% (five percent) of the profits obtained during fiscal year
2007 to the Company’s legal reserve, pursuant to Article 20 of
the General Law of Commercial Companies. In addition, a cash dividend
of $0.6405 M.N. per share was declared, up to the amount of $170,000,000.00
(one hundred seventy million pesos 00/100 Mexican pesos), which will
be taken from the Net Consolidated Tax Profit Account. Said dividend
will be paid on a date to be determined by the Company’s Board
of Directors, but which will be prior to December 31, 2008.
III. Presentation and, as the case may be, approval of the Chief Executive
Officer’s report, pursuant to Article 44, Section XI of the Securities
Market Law.
The Chief
Executive Officer’s report was reviewed and approved for the fiscal
period ended on December 31, 2007, pursuant to Article 44, of the Securities
Market Law.
IV. Presentation of the Board of Directors’ Opinion regarding
the content of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer’s report.
The Board
of Directors’ opinion regarding the report submitted by the Chief
Executive Officer was reviewed and approved.
V. Presentation
and, as the case may be, approval of the report submitted by the President
of the Audit Committee and the Executive Committee.
The Audit
Committee’s report for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2007
was approved in its entirety, pursuant to Article 43 of the Securities
Market Law.
VI. Acceptance of resignations, proposed appointments and, as the case
may be, ratification of the members of the Board of Directors and the
Secretary.
It was resolved
to accept the resignation of Mr. Patricio Trad Cepeda as an independent
board member of the Board of Directors and as a member of the Company’s
Audit Committee. The Board would like to thank him for his service as
a Board Member and hereby grants him the broadest release permitted
under applicable law for any and all of the acts and activities carried
out during the exercise of his position.
It was resolved
to appoint Mr. Juan Carlos Peralta del Río to the Company’s
Board of Directors as an independent board member. Mr. Peralta del Río
accepted said post.
As of today,
the Company’s Board of Directors is comprised of the following
individuals:
Director
Post
Isaac
Saba Raffoul Chairman
Moisés
Saba Ades Vice-Chairman
Alberto
Saba Ades Vice-Chairman
Manuel
Saba Ades Vice-Chairman
Gabriel
Saba Djamus Board
Member
José Elstein Japchik
Independent Board Member
Gabriel
Alarcón Vázquez Independent
Board Member
Juan
Carlos Peralta del Río Independent
Board Member
Alejandro Sadurni Gómez Alternate
Independent Director
Ivan Moguel Kuri Alternate Independent
Board Member
It was resolved to ratify
Mr. Francisco Fuentes Ostos as the Company’s Secretary, without
being a Board member.
VII. Acceptance
of resignations, proposed appointments and, as the case may be, ratification
of the members of the Audit Committee as well as the appointment and,
as the case may be, ratification of the President of said Committee.
It was resolved to ratify Mr. José Elstein Japchik and Mr. Gabriel
Alarcón Velázquez as members of the Audit Committee. Mr.
Patricio Trad Cepeda’s resignation was accepted and Mr. Juan Carlos
Peralta del Río was appointed as a Committee member. In addition,
Mr. José Elstein Japchik was ratified as the President of this
Committee.
Furthermore,
it was resolved that the Audit Committee will continue to carry out
its functions in the areas of auditing and corporate practices.
VIII. Appointment
and, as the case may be, ratification of the members of the Executive
Committee as well as the appointment and, as the case may be, ratification
of the President of said Committee.
It was resolved
to ratify Mr. Manuel Saba Ades, Mr. Alberto Saba Ades and Mr. Moisés
Saba Ades as members of the Executive Committee.
IX. Appointment or ratification, as the case may be, of the Company’s
Chief Executive Officer.
Mr. Manuel Saba Ades was ratified as the Company’s Chief Executive
Officer.
X. Remuneration
for the members of the Board of Directors, the Audit Committee, the Executive
Committee as well as the Secretary and the Chief Executive Officer.
The shareholders
thanked the alternate members, the members of the Board of Directors,
the Executive Committee, the Audit Committee and the Company Secretary,
who is a non-Board member, for renouncing any type of remuneration for
their appointment and for carrying out their duties.
XI. Designation
of delegates who will comply with and execute the resolutions adopted
during this shareholders meeting.
It was resolved
to appoint the following persons as delegates to the shareholders meeting:
Mr. Manuel Saba Ades, Mr. Pedro Alejandro Sadurni Gómez, Mr.
Jesús Guerra de Luna, Mr. Rodrigo Echagaray Rodríguez,
Mr. Francisco Fuentes Ostos, Mr. Patricio Alejandro Trad Cepeda, Ms.
Marisol Palomares Navarro, Ms. Mirem Arriola Herce and Mr. Federico
Martens Alva, in order for them to appear before the notary public of
their choice to execute, in part or in its totality, the resolutions
approved during this shareholders meeting, to certify (notarize) the
resolutions, in person or with an authorized third party, with the Registro
Público de Comercio (Public Register of Commerce) of Mexico City
and to perform all of the necessary acts in order to execute the resolutions
adopted by the shareholders at the meeting.
Mr. Manuel
Saba Ades, Mr. Pedro Alejandro Sadurni Gómez, Mr. Jesús
Guerra de Luna, Mr. Rodrigo Echagaray Rodríguez, Mr. Francisco
Fuentes Ostos and Mr. Patricio Alejandro Trad Cepeda were authorized,
as delegates of the shareholders meeting, to file all notices and notifications
and to carry out any necessary action before the National Securities
and Banking Commission (Comisión Nacional Banacaria y de Valores),
the Mexican Stock Exchange (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, S.A. de C.V.),
the Securities Depositary Institution (S.D. Indeval, Institución
para el Depósito de Valores, S.A. de C.V.) and any other Entity
or Institution, public or private, related to the resolutions adopted
at the shareholders meeting.
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