euro adhoc: Valora Holding AG
Annual & Special Corporate Meetings
Valora
Holding AG: Three new Board members elected
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30.01.2008
At the extraordinary general meeting in Bern on January 30, 2008, Valora´s shareholders elected Conrad Löffel, Rolando Benedick and Markus Fiechter as Board Directors. Valora´s Board of Directors then held a constitutive meeting, at which it elected Rolando Benedick as its new Chairman.
385 shareholders attended Valora Holding AG´s extraordinary general meeting in Bern. The shareholders attending in person, plus the proxies issued to the independent shareholders´ representative and to the company, as well as the proxies for deposited shares, represented an aggregate total of 1´540´733 voting shares of Valora Holding AG. Conrad Löffel, Rolando Benedick and Markus Fiechter were elected to serve as Directors for three-year terms of office (i.e. until the ordinary general meeting in 2011). Valora´s shareholders refused the election of the remaining two candidates, Adriano Agosti and Geltrude Renzi.
Rolando Benedick elected as Chairman of the Board - new Board Committee memberships Immediately following the general meeting, Valora´s newly constituted Board of Directors held its first meeting, at which Rolando Benedick was elected as the new Board Chairman. The composition of the Board Committees was decided as follows:
Audit Comittee: Conrad Löffel (Chairman) Andreas Gubler Werner Kuster Rolando Benedick
Nomination and Compensation Committee: Franz Julen (Chairman) Markus Fiechter Paul-Bernhard Kallen Beatrice Tschanz Rolando Benedick
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Branche: Retail
ISIN: CH0002088976
WKN: 208897
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