Share capital structure

During 2009, Philips’ issued share capital remained at a level of 972 million common shares. The basic shares outstanding increased slightly from 923 million at the end of December 2008 to 927 million shares at the end of 2009. As of December 31, 2009, the shares held in treasury amounted to 45.0 million shares, of which 43.1 million are held by Philips to cover long-term incentive and employee stock purchase plans.

The Dutch Financial Markets Supervision Act (Wet op het financieel toezicht) imposes a duty to disclose percentage holdings in the capital and/or voting rights in the Company when such holding reaches, exceeds or falls below 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 75% and 95%. Such disclosure must be made to the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) without delay. The AFM then notifies the Company.

On April 20, 2009, the Company received notification from the AFM that it had received disclosures under the Financial Markets Supervision Act of a substantial holding of 5.02% by Southeastern Asset Management, Inc. in the Company’s common shares, which was subsequently reduced to below 5% as of December 14, 2009. On December 1, 2009, the Company received notification from the AFM that it had received disclosures under the Financial Markets Supervision Act of a substantial holding of 5.03% by BlackRock Inc. in the Company’s common shares.

Based on a survey in September 2009 and information provided by several large custodians, the following shareholder portfolio information is included in the graphs Shareholder by region and Shareholders by style.

1)	Split based on identified shares in shareholder identification

1)	Split based on identified shares in shareholder identification
2)	GARP: growth at reasonable price