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SECTION 1.2

Description of the concentration

The contemplated transaction involves the acquisition of the sole control of GFI INFORMATIQUE by FUJITSU. FUJITSU, through FS Participation SAS, initiated on 25 May 2007 a full cash tender offer for the shares and the warrants issued by GFI INFORMATIQUE, with a minimum take-up condition of 66,67% of GFI INFORMATIQUE’s share capital and voting rights. FS Participation SAS is a French indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Services, which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited. The latter is a Japanese company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as well as the Osaka, Nagoya, Frankfurt, London and Swiss exchanges and is the parent company of an international group mainly active in the manufacturing and sale of computing products, electronic devices and telecommunication products and in the provision of IT services. GFI INFORMATIQUE is a French listed company active in the field of IT services. The broad economic area implicated in this case is the IT services sector. Through this acquisition, FUJITSU intends to consolidate its position in Europe in the growing IT services sector.