Further to the Crédit Agricole - Crédit Lyonnais offer and payment of the dividend

The Board of Directors of Crédit Agricole S.A. met yesterday and noted with satisfaction the final results of the friendly public offer initiated jointly by Crédit Agricole S.A. and SACAM Développement for the shares of Crédit Lyonnais. These results indicate that the transaction was successful in terms of both the number of shares tendered to the offer and the breakdown of orders between the various offers. At the closing of the offer, 282,496,853 Crédit Lyonnais shares had been tendered to the offer, giving the joint-bidders 97.45 per cent of Crédit Lyonnais' capital and voting rights at 5 June 2003[...]