Shareholders & Investors

All shareholders have the right to attend General Meetings regardless of the number of shares they hold.

Shareholders can vote:

• by attending the Meeting,
• by post,
• by giving a proxy to their spouse, another shareholder or the Chairman of the Meeting.

It is not necessary to block your shares with the relevant financial agent to be able to vote on resolutions at General Meetings.

An Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) will be held on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 10.30am (Paris time) at the Carrousel du Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris.

In the context of the €4.5 billion action plan announced by Lafarge to rapidly strengthen its financial structure and support the Group's growth, an exceptional capital increase of €1.5 billion is anticipated. The Meeting will in particular be invited to vote on the delegation of competence granted to the Board of directors in order to issue shares in the Company, with shareholders' preemptive subscription rights maintained.

The increase, combined with the Company's operational work, would enable the Group to significantly reduce its debt in 2009.

Your participation is important!

• If you own nominative shares, you simply need to be registered in the nominative accounts by March 26, 2009 at the latest.
• If you own bearer shares, you do not need to immobilize your securities. All that is required is that your bank confirms your capacity as a shareholder by March 26, 2009 at the latest (via a participation certificate).

The voting by post form or voting by proxy form, once duly completed (along with the participation certificate for the bearer shareholders) will have to be sent at the latest by March 30, 2009 at 3pm (Paris time) by:

BNP Paribas Securities Services

G.C.T., Services aux Emetteurs, Service Assemblée Lafarge

Immeuble Tolbiac

75450 Paris Cedex 09

*For the first convocation

Already awarded Silver Medal in 2007, Lafarge received the 2008 Best General Meeting Award.

The "Annual General Meeting Award" of the CAC40-listed groups was created by CapitalCom in partnership with Les Echos, Radio Classique and Deloitte. It awards the company whose General Meeting respects the current best practices based on more than 70 criteria, notably:

• the organization,
• the quality of speeches and discussions with the shareholders,
• the pedagogy,
• the financial information accessibility,
• the presentation of the social and environmental responsibility, etc.

This Award demonstrates the growing care for our individual shareholders.

In general, 1 share = 1 vote for.

N.B.:

• shares registered for at least 2 years, from date to date, and owned by the same shareholder, are entitled to a double vote,
• the number of voting right is equal to the number of owned shares, within the limit of 5% of all shares comprising the share capital.