CSR Press Release

NEW YORK, June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Societe Generale’s employees worldwide are taking part in activities to support the Group’s partner charities during Citizen Commitment Week (June 15-21).

Employees from different areas of the bank are devoting time to community causes that already exist or have been initiated for the Citizen Commitment Week. Employees are also participating in fundraising, donation drives and informational sessions on corporate social responsibility.

Societe Generale’s US employees are demonstrating their commitment to the community through a variety of worthwhile charitable efforts, which include:

• Volunteer event on behalf of DeWitt Clinton Park in Manhattan to improve facilities
  
• Volunteer event on behalf of God’s Love We Deliver to prepare meals for the infirm
  
• Volunteer event on behalf of Help USA to assist refurbishing a local facility
  
• Fundraising Scavenger Hunt, Bake Sale and Employee Soccer Match
  
• Informational sessions on Societe Generale’s partnerships with CARE and Cents Ability
  
• Food drive, eyeglass donation drive and greeting card drive on behalf of St. Bartholomew’s Church in Manhattan, New Eyes for the Needy and Memorial Sloan Kettering Pediatric Cancer Unit

One of the week’s special events is a ceremony on Wednesday evening to celebrate the opening of the TEAK Fellowship Alumni Career Center. TEAK Fellowship is a non-profit organization that helps talented New York City students from low-income families gain admission to and succeed at top high schools and colleges. Societe Generale has been a devoted partner to TEAK, providing internships for Fellows over the past 6 summers, and most recently, providing funding for the development of its new Alumni Career Center.

The full list of worldwide initiatives is posted on www.citizencommitmentweek.com/home.php. The time committed by employees is recorded in real time. Nearly twenty charities supported by the Societe Generale Foundation for Solidarity and by Talents & Partage (association of Group’s present and retired employees) will be taking part in some fifty initiatives.

Societe Generale Group’s commitment is supported by its employee association, Talents & Partage, founded in 1994, and the Societe Generale Foundation for Solidarity created in 2006. The Foundation has provided support for 125 projects. In 2008, nearly 9 million euros in solidarity donations were given by the Group.

Societe Generale
Societe Generale is one of the largest financial services groups in the euro-zone. The Group employs 163,000 people worldwide in three key businesses:

• Retail Banking & Financial Services: Societe Generale serves more than 30 million individual customers worldwide.
  
• Global Investment Management & Services: Societe Generale is one of the largest banks in the euro-zone in terms of assets under custody (EUR 2 762 billion, March 2009) and under management (EUR 332 billion, March 2009).
  
• Corporate & Investment Banking: Societe Generale ranks among the leading banks worldwide in euro capital markets, derivatives and structured finance.

Societe Generale is included in 3 socially-responsible investment indexes: FTSE4Good, ASPI and Ethibel.