Annual General Meeting 2018
Annual general meeting to be held
on Thursday, 19 July 2018 at 10 a.m. CEST, at the Congress Center Rosengarten, Rosengartenplatz 2, 68161 Mannheim, Germany.
Agenda
- Presentation of the adopted annual financial statements and management report (including notes to the statements pursuant to section 289a (1) of the German Commercial Code (HGB)) for the fiscal year 2017/18, the approved consolidated financial statements and management report (including notes to the disclosed information pursuant to section 315a (1) HGB) for the fiscal year 2017/18 and the report of the Supervisory Board
- Appropriation of retained earnings
- Formal approval of the actions of the members of the Executive Board for the fiscal year 2017/18
- Formal approval of the actions of the members of the Supervisory Board for the fiscal year 2017/18
- Election of the auditors and group auditors for the fiscal year 2018/19 and the auditor for a potential review of any financial information during the year
- Change to article 4 (3) of the articles of association
Items on the agenda that require no resolution
ITEM 1
Present the adopted annual financial statements and management report (including notes to the statements pursuant to section 289a (1) of the German Commercial Code (HGB)) for the fiscal year 2017/18, the approved consolidated financial statements and management report (including notes to the disclosed information pursuant to section 315a (1) HGB) for the fiscal year 2017/18 and the report of the Supervisory Board
In its meeting on 16 May 2018, the Supervisory Board approved the annual financial statements and consolidated financial statements prepared by the Executive Board; the annual financial statements are thus adopted. In accordance with applicable law, there is thus no resolution required regarding this item.
Total number of shares and voting rights at time the meeting is called
At the time the meeting was called, the company's share capital totaled € 204,183,292 consisting of 204,183,292 no-par value bearer shares. Each share is granted one vote at the annual general meeting. Both the total number of shares and voting rights at the time of calling the annual general meeting is thus 204,183,292. At the time the meeting was called, the company held no treasury shares.
Item 2
Appropriation of retained earnings
The Executive Board and the Supervisory Board propose net retained earnings of Südzucker AG for fiscal year 2017/18 in the amount of € 91,914,483.02 to be used as follows:
| Distribution of a dividend of € 0.45 per share | |
|---|---|
| on 204,183,292 no-par value bearer shares | 91,882,481.40 € |
| Earnings carried forward | 32,001.62 € |
| Retained earnings | 91,914,483.02 € |
The number of dividend-bearing shares may change by the date of the Annual General Meeting. In such case, an amended recommendation regarding appropriation of retained earnings will be presented to shareholders at the Annual General Meeting, which will reflect an unchanged dividend per dividend-bearing share and amended earnings carried forward.
In accordance with section 58 (4) sentence 2 of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG), the entitlement to payment of the dividend is due on the third business day following the Annual General Meeting, therefore on 24 July 2018.
Notice on behalf of the company: Dividend announcement will be published after resolution within the German Federal Gazette and at the company's website.
Motions on amendments/counter motions/nominations for elections
Until deadline 18 June 2018, (midnight), no motions on amendments according to § 122 (2) German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) have been submitted for the Südzucker AG annual general meeting on 19 July 2018.
Furthermore until Deadline 4 July 2018, (midnight), no countermotions/nominations for elections according to § 126 German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) and § 127 AktG have been submitted for the Südzucker AG annual general meeting on 19 July 2018.
Documents to the agenda
Documents to ITEM 1
Present the adopted annual financial statements and management report for the 2017/18 fiscal year
Documents to ITEM 5
Election of the auditors and group auditors for the fiscal year 2018/19 and the auditor for a potential review of any financial information during the year
AGM 2018 - Additional information on item 5
102.52 kBProxy-voting
Via following pages you have the opportunity, to submit proxies/instructions to representatives of the company or proxies to third parties for the Annual General Meeting of Südzucker AG on 19 July 2018 in Mannheim.
Remark: Please consider that if we should receive proxies/instructions in different ways with diverging proxies/instructions, we will prioritise the one received via proxy-voting, unless it is obvious that this proxy/instruction was withdrawn by a proxy/instruction at a later date. This remark takes priority over the annotations made about this issue in the proxy-voting-system.
Instructions for usage of this electronic proxy voting are available only in German. For further englisch information on proxy voting please refer to this item.