Welcome to the Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Addtech AB (publ.) will be held at 4.00 p.m. on 31 August 2016 at IVA, Grev Turegatan 16, Stockholm.
Notice of participation
Shareholders who wish to participate in the Annual General Meeting must
- be entered in the shareholders' register held by Euroclear Sweden AB on Thursday, 25 August 2016,
- and provide the Company with notification of their attendance by 3.00 p.m. Thursday, 25 August 2016 at the latest: by contacting Addtech AB (publ), Box 5112, 102 43 Stockholm, Sweden; by calling +46 (0)8-470 49 00; by faxing +46 (0)8-470 49 01; through the Company's website www.addtech.com/investors; or by e-mailing info@addtech.com. Such notice must contain the shareholder's name, personal identification number (or corporate ID number), address, telephone number and the number of shares represented as well as advisors/assistance (a maximum of two). The data submitted in such notification will be processed and used for the 2016 AGM.
Shareholders whose shares are held in trust must temporarily register their shares in their own name in order to exercise their voting rights at the AGM. Such changes in registration must be completed no later than Thursday, 25 August 2016. If a shareholder intends to participate by representation through a proxy, the original of the proxy notice as well as any documents for authorisation must be sent to the Company well before the AGM. Representatives of a legal entity must also submit a certified copy of the registration certificate or equivalent documents for authorisation that demonstrate that they are entitled to represent the legal entity. The Company provides a proxy form for shareholders which is available from the head office or from the Company's website www.addtech.com/arsstamma no later than 15 July 2016.
Payment of dividend
The dividend resolution adopted by the AGM will specify the date on which shareholders must be recorded in the share register maintained by Euroclear Sweden AB to be entitled to receive the dividend. The record date proposed by the Board is Friday, 2 September 2016 for dividend payment. Provided the AGM adopts the proposal, the dividend is expected to be paid through Euroclear Sweden AB on Wednesday, 7 September 2016, to shareholders entered in the share register at the record date.
Change of address or bank account
Shareholders who have changed their name, address or account number should inform their trustee or account operator (bank) of any such change as soon as possible. A special form is available from banks.
PROPOSALS TO THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
- Dividend. The Board of Directors proposes a dividend of SEK 3.25 (3.25) per share. The dividend amounts to SEK 218 million (216).
- Incentive scheme. The Board of Directors has decided to propose that the Annual General Meeting should pass a resolution to adopt a long-term incentive scheme. Under the scheme, which is proposed to include 25 members of management within the Addtech Group, participants will be given the opportunity to acquire, at market price, call options relating to Class B shares in Addtech AB ('the Company') repurchased by the Company and participants will receive a certain subsidy on premiums paid for the options after two years. The proposal also involves the Annual General Meeting approving that the Company, in deviation from the shareholders' preferential rights, transfers up to 400,000 of the Company's repurchased Class B shares to the option holders at the agreed redemption price in connection with any exercise of the call options. If the options are fully exercised, the number of B shares outstanding will increase by 400,000, equivalent to 0.6 percent of the total number of shares outstanding and 0.4 percent of the votes.
- Extension of repurchase mandate. The Board of Directors has decided to propose to the AGM that the mandate to repurchase treasury shares be renewed. The proposed mandate would entitle the Board of Directors, during the period until the next AGM, to purchase shares such that the Company's holding at no time exceeds ten percent of the total number of shares in the Company. Repurchases shall be made in the stock market. The proposed mandate would also allow use of repurchased shares as payment for acquisitions or disposal of the repurchased shares outside the stock market to finance acquisitions.