EVS Broadcast: shareholders approve EUR 2.36 to...

EVS Broadcast Equipment S.A., the leader in professional digital video applications for live TV production today held its Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders.

Ninety-four shareholders representing 3,187,700 shares, or 23.4% of the company shares, attended physically or by proxy the shareholders meeting at EVS Head Office. All Board propositions have been approved and in particular the following points:

100% of the represented shareholders approved a total gross dividend of EUR 2.36 for fiscal year 2011, which implies the payment of a final gross dividend of EUR 1.20 (EUR 0.90 after payment of withholding tax of 25%, ex-date May 22, 2012, and payment date May 25, 2012).

The shareholders also approved the remuneration report for fiscal year 2011, acknowledged the resignation of Mr. Jean-Pierre Pironnet. They finally approved the renewal of the mandate of Yves Trouveroy, independent Director, for a period of 3 years, and the appointment as independent Director of Mrs. Françoise Chombar for a mandate of 3 years:

• Mrs. Francoise Chombar (49) has served as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Melexis NV since February 15, 2011. Previously, she was appointed as co-Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer from 2004 onwards and as Chief Operating Officer since 1994. From 1989 she served as Operations Manager and Director at several companies within the Elex n.v. and Xtrion n.v. private holding companies. Prior to that date, she served as Planning Manager at Elmos GmbH, a German semiconductor company, from 1986 to 1989 and as Commercial Assistant at Michel Vande Wiele n.v., a Belgian textile equipment manufacturer, from 1984 till 1985. She holds a master's degree as Interpreter in Dutch, English and Spanish from the University of Gent. She's been mentor of the Women's network Sofia (www.vrouwenmanagement.be) since 2000, a member of Women on Board (www.womenonboard.be) since 2011 and honorary ambassador of the Department of Applied Languages of the University of Gent since January 2012.

The documents relating to the shareholders' meeting, including the minutes and the results of the votes, are available on www.evs-global.com in the Investor Relations section, "General Meetings" page.

Corporate Calendar:
Tuesday May 22, 2012                                  Final dividend coupon 14: ex-date
Thursday May 24, 2012                                 Final dividend coupon 14: record date
Friday May 25, 2012                                       Final dividend coupon 14: payment date
Thursday August 30, 2012                            2Q12 earnings
Thursday November 15, 2012                     3Q12 earnings

For more information, please contact:
Jacques GALLOY, Director & CFO
Geoffroy d'OULTREMONT, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications Manager
EVS Broadcast Equipment S.A., Liège Science Park, 16 rue du Bois Saint-Jean, B-4102 Seraing, Belgium
Tel: [phone].  E-mail: [e-mail]; www.evs-global.com

About EVS Group
EVS Broadcast Equipment designs leading broadcast and media production systems for sports, news and TV entertainment. Its innovative Live Slow Motion system revolutionized live broadcasting, and its reliable and integrative tapeless solutions are now widely used for non-linear editing and 3D HD productions across the globe. 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 "XT3® Platform". The world's leading broadcasters, such as NBC, BSkyB, FOX, RTBF, RTL, NHK, CANAL+, ABC, ESPN, TF1, CCTV, PBS, CBS, BBC, ZDF, Channel One, Channel7, RAI, TVE, NEP, MEDIAPRO, EUROMEDIA, BEXEL, ALFACAM and many others use EVS' solutions.
The company is headquartered in Belgium and has offices in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America. Approximately 427 EVS professionals from 20 offices are selling its branded products in over 100 countries, and provides customer support globally. EVS is a public company traded on Euronext Brussels: EVS, ISIN: BE0003820371. For more information, refer to www.evs-global.com, www.evs.tv
XDC, of which EVS owns 41.3%, is the European leader for Digital Cinema technology and services in Europe with more than 4,900 committed digital screens in Europe, out of which 2,000 have already been deployed. www.xdcinema.com

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