SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the month of April, 2013
Brazilian Distribution Company
(Translation of Registrant’s Name Into English)
Av. Brigadeiro Luiz Antonio,
3142 São Paulo, SP 01402-901
Brazil
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
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COMPANHIA BRASILEIRA DE DISTRIBUIÇÃO
Corporate Taxpayers’ Registry (CNPJ/MF) no. 47.508.411/0001-56
Commercial Registry (NIRE) no. 35.300.089.901
MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING
HELD ON APRIL 17, 2013
1. DATE, TIME AND PLACE: On the seventeenth day of April 2013, at 9 a.m., at Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição (“Company”) headquarters, located at Avenida Brigadeiro Luís Antônio, nr. 3.142, in the Capital of the State of São Paulo.
2. CALL: Call notice duly published on the State of São Paulo Official Register, issues of March 22th, 23th and 26th, 2013, on pages 89, 61 and 172, respectively, and in “O Estado de São Paulo” newspaper, issues of March 22th, 23th and 25th, 2013, on pages B8, B2 and B8, respectively.
3. QUORUM: Shareholders representing more than two thirds of the voting capital of the Company, according to the signatures set on the respective Shareholders Attendance Book, thus being demonstrated the legal quorum for the Meeting.
4. MEETING BOARD: Mr. Abilio dos Santos Diniz, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, presided over the Meeting, under Article 9 of the Bylaws, and invited me, Marcelo Acerbi de Almeida, to act in the capacity of his Secretary.
5. AGENDA: Election of one (1) member to the Company´s Board of Directors, as replacement to Director Cândido Botelho Bracher, to hold office until the Company´s Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting of 2014.
6. SUMMARY OF RESOLUTIONS:
6.1. To register the resignation of the member of the Board of Directors Mr. Cândido Botelho Bracher. The Chairman thanked for the contribution of the director for Company’s development.
6.2. To elect, by unanimous vote of the present, in order to make up the Company’s Board of Directors, for a term of office that ends in the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting to be held on 2014, Mrs. Maria Helena dos Santos Fernandes Santana, Brazilian, married, economist, bearer of the Brazilian Identity Card RG nr. 6.578.061-9, SSP/SP, enrolled with the Individual Taxpayers’ Registry (CPF/MF) under nr. 036.221.618-50, resident in the Capital of the State of São Paulo with office at Avenida Brigadeiro Luís Antônio, nr. 3.142, in the Capital of the State of São Paulo.
6.3. Consequently, shall now be part of the Board of Directors the hereunder members: Abilio dos Santos Diniz (Chairman); Arnaud Daniel Charles Walter Joachim Strasser (Vice Chairman), Jean-Charles Henri Naouri; Jean Louis Bourgier; Antoine Giscard D’Estaing; Ulisses Kameyama; Luiz Fernando Figueiredo; Cláudio Eugênio Stiller Galeazzi; Eleazar de Carvalho Filho; Luiz Augusto de Castro Neves; Roberto Oliveira de Lima; Maria Helena dos Santos Fernandes Santana; Guilherme Affonso Ferreira; Fábio Schvartsman; and Pedro Henrique Chermont de Miranda.
7. DOCUMENTS FILED: (a) Call Notice; and (b) Management Proposal.
ADJOURNMENT: With nothing further to come before the board, the works were adjourned for these minutes to be drafted as a summary and which, upon being read and approved, were signed by the shareholders present. São Paulo, April 17, 2013. Summary of the minutes drawn up on the proper book, as provided for by paragraph 3 of article 130 of Law No. 6404/76. Signatures: Abilio dos Santos Diniz – Chairman; Marcelo Acerbi de Almeida – Secretary. Attending Shareholders: Wilkes Participações S/A, on its own behalf and as usufructuary of voting rights of Sudaco Participações Ltda., Casino Guichard Perrachon, Abilio dos Santos Diniz and Ana Maria Falleiros dos Santos Diniz D’Ávila (duly represented by Juan Javier Bordaberry Herran and Carlos Eduardo Prado; Rio Plate Empreendimentos e Participações Ltda. (represented by Eduardo Munhoz); and Stanhore – Trading International S.A. (represented by Renata Catelan P. Rodrigues).
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Marcelo Acerbi de Almeida
Secretary
Pursuant to the requirement of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| COMPANHIA BRASILEIRA DE DISTRIBUIÇÃO | ||
| Date: April 17, 2013 | By: /s/ Enéas César Pestana Neto Name: Enéas César Pestana Neto Title: Chief Executive Officer | |
| By: /s/ Vitor Fagá de Almeida Name: Vitor Fagá de Almeida Title: Investor Relations Officer | ||
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