The Board of Directors bioMérieux S.A. recommend that shareholders at the annual general meeting on May 17, 2018 approve a dividend of €0.34 per share. This would represent a total payout of €40.2 million, to be paid on June 7, 2018 as compared to €39.5 million in 2017.

The company also announced the appointment of Guillaume Bouhours as corporate vice-president and chief financial officer and a member of its executive committee. He will take over from Claire Giraut, who has decided to retire, and will head up the same departments, namely Finance, Purchasing and Information Systems. Guillaume Bouhours was previously Group President – Access & Mobility at Wabtec. Prior to that, he held the position of Chief Financial Officer for the Faiveley Transport group from 2010 to 2016. The appointment will be effective as from March 2018.