EANS-News: Semperit AG Holding Annual General Meeting resolves to distribute a
dividend of EUR 1.10 per share plus a special dividend of EUR 4.90 per share
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Annual & Special Corporate Meetings
The 126th Annual General Meeting of Semperit AG Holding resolved to distribute
an increased dividend of EUR 1.10 per share for the 2014 financial year (2013:
EUR 0.90 per share) and an additional special dividend of EUR 4.90 per share.
The ex-dividend day is scheduled for May 5, 2015. The dividend payout date has
been set for May 8, 2015.
Felix Strohbichler, future Managing Director of B&C Industrieholding, was
elected to the Supervisory Board by the Annual General Meeting for the first
time. The Supervisory Board mandates of Veit Sorger, Walter Koppensteiner and
Ingrid Wesseln were extended for another term of office expiring at the Annual
General Meeting in 2019.
As a result, the shareholder representatives on the Supervisory Board now
consist of Veit Sorger, Felix Strohbichler, Stefan Fida, Walter Koppensteiner,
Patrick Prügger, Andreas Schmidradner, Astrid Skala-Kuhmann and Ingrid Wesseln.
Michael Junghans, who previously served as Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory
Board, resigned from his position on the Supervisory Board as of the end of
today's Annual General Meeting.
The Annual General Meeting discharged the members of the Management Board and
Supervisory Board from liability for the 2014 financial year. Furthermore, the
Annual General Meeting resolved upon the remuneration of the Supervisory Board
for the 2014 financial year. Ernst & Young Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
m.b.H., Vienna was appointed to serve as the auditor of the annual financial
statements and consolidated financial statements for the 2015 financial year.
In today's constituent meeting of the Supervisory Board which followed the
Annual General Meeting, Veit Sorger was reelected to serve as Chairman of the
Supervisory Board, and Felix Strohbichler was elected to be his new Deputy
Chairman.
About Semperit
The publicly listed company Semperit AG Holding is an internationally-oriented
group that develops, produces, and sells in more than 100 countries highly
specialised rubber and plastic products for the medical and industrial sectors:
examination and surgical gloves, hydraulic and industrial hoses, conveyor belts,
escalator handrails, construction profiles, cable car rings, and products for
railway superstructures. The headquarters of this long-standing Austrian
company, which was founded in 1824, are located in Vienna, and the global R & D
centre is in Wimpassing, Lower Austria. The Semperit Group employs about 6,900
people worldwide, including close to 4,100 in Asia and more than 800 in Austria
(Vienna and production site in Wimpassing, Lower Austria). The Group has 22
manufacturing facilities worldwide and numerous sales offices in Europe, Asia,
and America. In 2014 the group generated sales of EUR 930 million and an EBITDA
of EUR 136 million.
Further inquiry note:
Martina Büchele
Head of Group Communications
Tel.: +43 676 8715 8621
martina.buechele@semperitgroup.comwww.semperitgroup.com
Stefan Marin
Investor Relations
Tel.: +43 676 8715 8210
stefan.marin@semperitgroup.com
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company: Semperit AG Holding
Modecenterstrasse 22
A-1030 Wien
phone: +43 1 79 777-210
FAX: +43 1 79 777-602
mail: investor@semperitgroup.com
WWW: www.semperitgroup.com
sector: Synthetics & Plastics
ISIN: AT0000785555
indexes: WBI, ATX Prime, ViDX, Prime Market, ATX Global Players
stockmarkets: official market: Wien
language: English