EANS-News: freenet AG Resolves of the freenet Annual General Meeting 2012
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Annual & Special Corporate Meetings
Büdelsdorf, 10. May 2012 (euro adhoc) - Yesterday's ordinary Annual General
Meeting of freenet AG in Hamburg resolved to pay a dividend of 1.20 EUR per
dividend-entitled share, for a total payout of 153,613,219.20 Euro.
The ordinary Annual General Meeting of freenet AG also appointed six shareholder
representatives to the Supervisory Board: Thorsten Kraemer, Dr. Hartmut Schenk,
Prof. Dr. Helmut Thoma, Marc Tüngler, Robert Weidinger and Achim Weiss. The
term of office for these members ends at the end of Annual General Meeting that
passes the resolution to formally approve their actions for the 2016 financial
year. The term of office of the current shareholder representatives on the
Supervisory Board ended at the end of the regular Annual General Meeting of
freenet AG on 9 May 2012. The Supervisory Board of freenet AG is now composed as
follows:
Thorsten Kraemer, a consultant and telecommunications expert. He has been
associated with the company for around 13 years and sat on the freenet
Supervisory Board from July 2007 until the end of June 2011, serving as its
Chairman from July 2009 to 30 June 2011.
Dr. Hartmut Schenk, Managing Partner of Casaplan Seeliger GmbH in Saarbrücken.
Dr. Schenk also chairs the Supervisory Board of Optima Gruppe Aktiengesellschaft
in Saarbrücken, and has sat on the Supervisory Board of freenet AG since 30 June
2011.
Prof. Dr. Helmut Thoma, a native of Vienna, self-employed media consultant and a
long-time association of the company: he was a member of the mobilcom
Supervisory Board for many years, and chaired the Supervisory Board of
freenet.de AG and most recently that of the new freenet AG.
Marc Tüngler, a solicitor and Managing Director of the Deutsche
Schutzvereinigung für Wertpapierbesitz e.V. (DSW - German Association of Private
Shareholders), Mr Tüngler also sits on the Supervisory Board of the publicly
listed InnoTec TSS AG, Dusseldorf, and is a member of the Board of the German
Supervisory Board Working Group (AdAR), Cologne.
Robert Weidinger is a freelance auditor, tax adviser and Corporate Finance
consultant in Valley.
Achim Weiss has sat on the Supervisory Board of freenet AG since the regular
Annual General Meeting 2009.
The freenet AG Executive Board also thanks the departing shareholder
representatives Dr. Christof Aha, Dr. Arnold Bahlmann, and Niclas Rauscher for
their work. In particular, the entire Executive Board would like to expressly
thank the departing Supervisory Board Chairman, Maarten Henderson.
In its session after the Annual General Meeting on 9th May 2012, the Supervisory
Board of freenet AG elected a new chairman.
The results of the voting at yesterday's Annual General Meeting will be
available online shortly at www.freenet-group.de, under Investor Relations.
Further inquiry note:
freenet AG
Investor Relations
Tel.: +49 (0)40 51306-778
E-Mail: ir@freenet.ag
end of announcement euro adhoc
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company: freenet AG
Hollerstraße 126
D-24782 Büdelsdorf
phone: +49 (0)4331 691000
mail: ir@freenet.ag
WWW: http://www.freenet-group.de
sector: Telecommunications
ISIN: DE000A0Z2ZZ5
indexes: Midcap Market Index, TecDAX, CDAX, HDAX, Prime All Share,
Technology All Share
stockmarkets: free trade: Hannover, Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf,
Stuttgart, regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt
language: English