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EADS supports employee share ownership.
Since its creation, EADS has regularly offered qualifying employees the opportunity to purchase EADS shares on favourable terms through employee share ownership plans (“ESOPs”).
The following table summarises the main terms of the ESOPs conducted from 2000-2009: (including 2010 Special Anniversary Free Share Plan)
| Shares subscribed | Delivery date | Discounted Price per share | |
| 2010 | 1,184,220 | 10 July 20010 | 0€ (Special Anniversary Free Share Plan) |
| 2009 | 1,358,936 | 18 Dec 2009 | 10.76 € |
| 2008 | 2,031,820 | 25 Jul 2008 | 11.70 - 12.79 € |
| 2007 | 2,037,835 | 09 May 2007 | 17.16 - 19.62 € |
| 2006 | no offering | ||
| 2005 | 2,025,000 | 29 Jul 2005 | 18.86 € |
| 2004 | 2,017,822 | 03 Dec 2004 | 18.00 € |
| 2003 | 1,686,682 | 05 Dec 2003 | 12.48 € |
| 2002 | 2,022,939 | 04 Dec 2002 | 7.93 - 8.86 € |
| 2001 | 2,017,894 | 05 Dec 2001 | 10.70 € |
| 2000 | 11,769,259 | 21 Sep 2000 | 15.30 € |
ESOP 2010
In 2010, the normal ESOP plan was replaced through a worldwide 10 years EADS – Special Anniversary Free Share Plan for about 118,000 employees in 29 countries.
Each eligible employee was granted 10 free shares in EADS, resulting in the distribution of 1,184,220 shares in total. Such shares were distributed out of treasury and therefore had no impact on the issued share capital.
This exceptional free share grant was implemented in order to celebrate the initial public offering of EADS ten years ago and to strengthen each employee’s sense of belonging to EADS.
FUTURE ESOPS
EADS intends to implement an ESOP in 2011, subject to approval by the Board of Directors. The 2011 ESOP is expected to be a share matching plan, whereby the company would match a certain number of directly acquired shares with a grant of free shares. The total offering would be up to approximately 3.2 million shares of the Company, i.e. up to 0.39% of its issued share capital, open to all qualifying employees.
ESOP 2009
In November 2009, EADS again offered to qualifying employees a maximum of 0.25% of its total issued share capital before the offering. This employee offering was for up to 2,035,000 shares of a nominal value of € 1 each.
The employee offering was open only to employees who:
- had at least three months’ seniority;
- were employed by (i) EADS or (ii) one of its subsidiaries or (iii) companies in which EADS holds at least 10% of the share capital and over whose management it has a determining influence and whose registered offices are located in Germany, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Spain, the United States, Finland, France, the United Kingdom, Mexico, the Netherlands and Singapore.
The employee offering was divided into two tranches:
- shares subscribed for by qualifying employees in Group employee savings plan were offered for a price of € 10.76 per share;
- shares subscribed for by qualifying employees directly were offered for a price of € 10.76 per share.
The employees are generally restricted from selling the shares offered in this employee offering for one ear and sometimes ore in certain countries.
A total number of 1,358,936 shares were subscribed for in the employee offering. Shares were delivered on 18 December 009.
Former employee offerings
Similar conditions applied in earlier employee offerings. Details are available in the Registration Document 2010 (Chapter 4.3.2).
Status: Dec. 2010
