COCA-COLA ENTERPRISES SHARE OWNERS APPROVE 3-FOR-1 STOCK SPLIT AND ELECT JEAN-CLAUDE KILLY TO THE BOARD.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1997--Coca-Cola Enterprises reported that at today's Annual Meeting share owners approved the Company's 3-for-1 stock split. The stock split will be effective for share owners of record on May 1, 1997. The stock split will increase the Company's shares outstanding from approximately 126 million to 378 million. In addition, share owners elected Jean-Claude Killy to the Company's Board of Directors for a term expiring in 2000. Mr. Killy, 53, has been chairman and chief executive officer of The Company of the Tour de France Tour de France World's most prestigious and difficult bicycle race. Staged for three weeks each July—usually in some 20 daylong stages—the Tour typically comprises 20 professional teams of nine riders each and covers some 3,600 km (2,235 miles) of flat and (organizer and promoter of sporting events) since 1994 and chairman of the Board of Coca-Cola Enterprise, S.A. (French Coca-Cola bottler) since 1993. Mr. Killy is director of Amaury Sport Organization and The Phillippe Amaury Editions, S.A. (publisher) and serves as a member of the International Olympic Committee “IOC” redirects here. For other uses, see IOC (disambiguation). The International Olympic Committee (French: Comité International Olympique) is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23 . Four other members of the Company's Board of Directors were re-elected for a term expiring in 2000: Howard G. Buffett, Johnnetta B. Cole Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole (born October 19, 1936) is an American academic. Cole was the first African American female president of Spelman College from 1987- 1997. She was president of Bennett College from 2002-2007. , Claus M. Halle, and Henry A. Schimberg. Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CCE CCE Cornell Cooperative Extension CCE Corporate and Continuing Education CCE Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. CCE Commission de Coopération Environnementale CCE Centre for Continuing Education CCE College of Continuing Education CCE Certified Computer Examiner ) is the world's largest bottler of liquid nonalcoholic non·al·co·hol·ic adj. A beverage usually containing less than 0.5 percent alcohol by volume. refreshment, distributing more than 58 percent of The Coca-Cola Company's United States bottle and can volume. Coca-Cola Enterprises is also the sole licensed bottler for products of The Coca-Cola Company in Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and most of France. CONTACT: Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. Margaret Carton - Investor Relations (770) 989-3622 or Laura Asman - Media Relations (770) 989-3023 |
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