EANS-News: PNE WIND AG: Shareholders meeting again resolves to pay a dividend
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Annual & Special Corporate Meetings
Subtitle: Dividend amounts to 0.04 Euro per share
Supervisory Board mandates prolonged early
Cuxhaven (euro adhoc) - 15th May 2012 - In today's annual general meeting, a
large majority of the shareholders in PNE WIND AG (ISIN DE000A0JBPG2) again
approved the distribution of a dividend amounting to EUR 0.04 for each eligible
par value share. The shareholders thus approved the proposal made by the Board
of Directors and the Supervisory Board.
PNE WIND AGs balance sheet profit (HGB accounting) (German Commercial Code
accounting) which was decisive for the payment of the dividend amounted to about
EUR 2.5 million in the last financial year, i.e. 2011. At the current level of
45,777,960 eligible par value shares, a dividend of about EUR 1.8 million is
being distributed while the remaining profit of about EUR 0.7 will be carried
forward as proposed by the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board.
"Our shareholders form the basis of our company's success. We are therefore
delighted to be able share this positive business development with our
shareholders again this year" said Martin Billhardt, Chairman of the Board of
Directors of PNE WIND AG. "In the past financial year we have taken important
steps - especially in the offshore sector - which will provide us with
additional growth potential for the future", continued Billhardt.
Supervisory Board members were also re-elected with a considerable majority. The
Chairman, Dieter K. Kuprian, Dr. Peter Fischer and Professor Dr. Reza Abhari
have now been re-elected to office for a further five years. Their mandates
would only have expired in the coming year. These re-elections were held early
in order to support the company's development by assuring the continuity of its
personnel.
In addition, the shareholders meeting also passed resolutions discharging the
Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board by majorities of over 96% each.
Company profile
With its headquarters in Cuxhaven, PNE WIND AG plans and realises wind farm
projects on land (onshore) and on the high seas (offshore). In doing so, its
core competence lies in the development, project planning, and financing of wind
farms and in their operation and sales respectively with the provision of
subsequent service. To date, the company has constructed 98 wind farms with 568
wind energy plants and a total nominal output of 814 MW.
In addition to its business activities in the established German home market,
PNE WIND AG is increasingly expanding into dynamic growth markets and is already
represented in joint ventures and by subsidiary companies in Hungary, Bulgaria,
Turkey, Great Britain, Rumania, USA and Canada. In these countries wind farm
projects with a nominal output of up to 2,100 MW are being developed and are to
be completed in the medium term. In Germany (onshore), wind farm projects with
over 1,100 MW of nominal output are currently being developed.
In addition, PNE WIND AG is developing offshore wind farm projects, of which
four major projects in German waters have already been approved. An entry into
promising foreign markets is also being examined with regard to the offshore
sector.
Further inquiry note:
PNE WIND AG
Leiter Unternehmenskommunikation
Rainer Heinsohn
Tel: +49(0) 47 21 - 7 18 - 4 53
Fax: +49(0) 47 21 - 7 18 - 3 73
E-mail: info@pnewind.com
Investor Relations
Scott McCollister
Tel: +49(0) 47 21 - 7 18 - 4 54
Fax: +49(0) 47 21 - 7 18 - 3 73
E-mail: scott.mccollister@pnewind.com
Investor Relations
cometis AG
Ulrich Wiehle / Janis Fischer
Tel: +49(0)611 - 205855-64
Fax: +49(0)611 - 205855-66
E-mail: fischer@cometis.de
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company: PNE WIND AG
Peter-Henlein-Str. 2-4
D-27472 Cuxhaven
phone: +49(0)4721 718 06
FAX: +49(0)4721 718 373
WWW: http://www.pnewind.com
sector: Alternative energy
ISIN: DE000A0JBPG2, DE000A0B9VG7 DE000A0Z1MR2 DE000A1EMCW3
indexes: CDAX, Prime All Share, Technology All Share
stockmarkets: free trade: Hannover, Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf,
Stuttgart, regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt
language: English