General Meetings of Shareholders
- Approval of a gross dividend of € 0.35
- Approval of the proposed appointments
Today Bekaert’s Annual General Meeting of Shareholders took place, with Mr Jürgen Tinggren, Chairman of the Board of Directors, in the chair. The following main subjects were considered.
The meeting approved the balance sheet and the income statement as at
The dividend ex-date is
The meeting acknowledged the 2019 annual report of the Board of Directors, and approved the remuneration report for the year 2019. The meeting discharged the Directors and the Statutory Auditor for the performance of their duties during the financial year 2019 and approved the remuneration of the Directors.
The meeting accepted the recommendations:
- to confirm the mandate of Mr
- to appoint Ms
- to appoint Ms Eriikka Söderström as independent Director for a term of one year, until the Annual General Meeting to be held in 2021;
- to re-appoint Mr
- to re-appoint Ms
- to re-appoint Mr
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The meeting approved a number of change of control provisions.
Today an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders took place as well. The meeting aligned the articles of association of the Company with the new Code on Companies and Associations, expanded the Company’s object and granted a number of authorizations to the Board of Directors (among other things to acquire, accept in pledge and transfer own securities and to increase the capital).
The General Meetings were held behind closed doors in accordance with the Royal Decree n° 4 of
Attachment
- p200513E - General Meeting
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