Dividends increase approved

Resolution on dividends

As proposed by the corporate bodies, the Annual General Meeting approved a 12.2 percent higher dividend per preferred share of 1.47 euros ‏(previous year: 1.31 euros) and a 12.4 percent increased dividend per ordinary share of 1.45 euros ‏(previous year: 1.29 euros). The dividend payout ratio amounts to 30.2 percent of net income after non-controlling interests and adjusted for exceptional items. The total dividend payout amounts to almost 640 million euros.

New elections to the Supervisory Board and Shareholders’ Committee

Johann-Christoph Frey, previously a member of the Shareholders’ Committee, Benedikt-Richard Freiherr von Herman und Timotheus Höttges were elected new members of the Supervisory Board. They succeed Ferdinand Groos and Béatrice Guillaume-Grabisch, both of whom resigned from the Supervisory Board, and Boris Canessa, who was elected new member of the Shareholders’ Committee.

All other members of both the Supervisory Board and the Shareholders’ Committee were re-elected.

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