NYSE Euronext welcomes AREVA on its European market

5/30/2011
Press Release

NYSE Euronext welcomes AREVA on its European market

Paris, 30 May 2011 – AREVA, a global leader in solutions for low-carbon energy production, today celebrated the listing of its ordinary shares on NYSE Euronext in Paris.

Created in 2001, AREVA provides utilities with solutions for CO2-free energy production. AREVA, the world leader in nuclear power, offers its customers an integrated product range, covering every stage of the fuel cycle, nuclear reactor design and construction, as well as related services. AREVA is also expanding in renewable energies – wind, solar, bioenergies. Operating in more than 100 countries and with nearly 50,000 employees, the AREVA group is equally present in Europe, North and South America and Asia.

AREVA (ticker symbol: AREVA) was listed on the regulated market of NYSE Euronext in Paris following conversion of the Group’s outstanding investment certificates and preference shares into ordinary shares. All of AREVA’s ordinary shares were then admitted to trading, and at the opening bell they changed hands at €30.16 per share. With 383,204,852 shares comprising the share capital, market capitalisation on the date of admission totalled €11.6 billion.

 “We are delighted that AREVA shares have been listed on NYSE Euronext. AREVA is a leading international company endeavouring to provide cleaner, more secure and more affordable power to the greatest number of customers”, said Dominique Cerutti, President and Deputy CEO of NYSE Euronext. “NYSE Euronext offers security, transparency, technology and innovation, four strengths ensuring that AREVA will benefit from optimal liquidity and execution quality.”

Ronald Kent, Group Executive Vice President and Head of International Listings at NYSE Euronext, added, “Owing to our network of financial markets, AREVA will have access to a platform with exceptional visibility, which will bolster its reputation and standing with investors worldwide.”

Anne Lauvergeon, Chief Executive Officer of AREVA, said, “The listing of AREVA ordinary shares on NYSE Euronext represents the final step in a series of transactions that have simplified the structure of our capital, and I am pleased that our shareholders will benefit from this change.”

On the occasion of the listing, Gerald Arbola, Chief Operating Officer of AREVA, rang the bell marking the start of European trading on NYSE Euronext, in the presence of company employees and the NYSE Euronext Listings team.

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  • AREVA Press Office:
    Julien Duperray / Katherine Berezowskyj / Aurélie Grange / Jérôme Rosso 
    Tel: +33 1 34 96 12 15 - Fax: +33 1 34 96 16 54
    email: press@areva.com

  • AREVA Investors Relations:
    Manuel Lachaux
    Anne-Sophie Jugean
    Tél : +33 1 34 96 11 53
    email: manuel.lachaux@areva.com
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About NYSE Euronext

NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group.

NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: www.nyx.com.

About AREVA

AREVA supplies power to its customers using solutions that produce less CO2. AREVA’s expertise and its unbending adherence to the requirements of safety, security, transparency and ethics have made it one of the most prominent companies in the industry. AREVA’s commitment to responsible development is part of its continuous improvement initiative.

The world leader in nuclear power, AREVA offers electric utilities an integrated product range, covering every stage of the fuel cycle, nuclear reactor design and construction, as well as related services. AREVA is also expanding in renewable energies – wind, solar, bioenergies, hydrogen – and in storage technologies, and plans to be one of the world’s three leaders in this sector by 2012.

Through this broad range of products and services, AREVA’s 48,000 employees provide ever more secure, clean and economical power to greatest possible number of users.