Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • Mar 27, 2024
Pre-Annual General Meeting Information
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27.3.2024 15:30:00 EET | Reka Industrial Oyj | Notice to general meeting
27.3.2024 15:30:00 EET | Reka Industrial Oyj | Notice to general meeting
The Annual General Meeting of Reka Industrial Plc will be held on Tuesday, 23 April 2024 at 11 am at Hyvinkään Villatehdas, Kankurinkatu 4-6, 05800 Hyvinkää.
Registration and distribution of voting tickets will start at 10.30 am.
A. MATTERS ON THE AGENDA OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The meeting shall handle the following matters:
A dividend of EUR 0.20 per share was paid for the financial year 2022. In addition to the dividend, a capital repayment of EUR 0.20 per share was paid in 2023.
In addition, the Board of Directors proposes the Annual General Meeting that the Board of Directors is authorised to decide on an additional dividend of up to EUR 1.20 per share (up to a total of EUR 7.2 million based on the situation at the time of the notice of the meeting) and on the date of record and payment date for the additional dividend. It is proposed that the authorisation is valid until the beginning of the next Annual General Meeting.
The Board of Directors proposes to the Annual General Meeting that Authorised Public Accountants KPMG Ltd, with Authorised Public Accountant Jukka Rajala as responsible auditor, be re-elected as the auditor of the company for a term that expires at the end of the Annual General Meeting of 2025.
The authorization entitles the Board of Directors to decide on the directed acquisition of own class B shares in a proportion other than that of the shares held by the shareholders, provided that the company has a weighty reason for this as defined in the Finnish Companies Act.
The maximum number of shares acquired may be in total 588,076 class B shares. The amount corresponds to approximately 9.77 per cent of all the shares in the Company and in total 10.0 per cent of the Company´s class B shares.
The Board of Directors is entitled to decide on all other matters pertaining to acquiring of the company´s own shares.
The Board of Directors proposes that the authorisation be valid until the next Annual General Meeting, but no later than 23 October 2025. The authorization replaces the authorization given by the previous Annual General Meeting on 24 May 2023 to acquire company's own shares.
The transfer of own shares may take place in one or more tranches, with or without compensation. The amount of shares to be transferred in total can be a maximum of 588,076 class B shares corresponding to approximately 9.77 per cent of all the shares of the company and in total 10.0 per cent of the company´s class B shares according to the situation on the date of the notice. The authorisation entitles the Board of Directors to decide on all matters relating to the terms of transfer, including the right to deviate from shareholders pre-emptive right.
The Board of Directors proposes that the authorisation will be valid until the next Annual General Meeting. The authorization replaces the previous authorization given by the Annual General Meeting on 24 May 2023 on the transfer of own shares.
The abovementioned proposals of the Board of Directors relating to the agenda of the general meeting, the annual accounts, consolidated annual accounts, Board of Directors report, the auditor's report, the Remuneration Report, the Remuneration Policy, as well as this notice are available on Reka Industrial Plc's website at www.rekaindustrial.fi. The proposal of the Board of Directors and other above-mentioned documents are also available at the meeting. The minutes of the meeting will be available on the company's website no later than 7 May 2024.
C. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE GENERAL MEETING
In order to attend the Annual General Meeting, the shareholders must be registered as the company's shareholders in Reka Industrial Plc's shareholder register maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd on 11 April 2024 at the latest. A shareholder, whose shares are registered on their personal Finnish book-entry account, is registered in the shareholders' register of the company.
A shareholder who wants to participate in the Annual General Meeting shall register for the meeting no later than 18 April 2024 at 12 pm, at the latest, by giving a prior notice of participation.
Registration to the Annual General Meeting can be done:
c) by regular mail to address Reka Industrial Plc, Kankurinkatu 4–6, 05800 Hyvinkää Finland.
The registration must arrive before the end of the registration period.
In connection with the registration, a shareholder shall notify his/her name, personal or business identification number, address, telephone number and the name of a possible assistant. The personal data given to Reka Industrial Plc is used only in connection with the Annual General Meeting and with the processing of related registrations.
A holder of nominee registered shares who wants to participate in the Annual General Meeting must be entered into the shareholders' register of the company on the record date of the meeting, 11 April 2024. A shareholder of nominee registered shares must also be temporarily entered into the shareholders' register held by Euroclear Finland Ltd, of the company on 18 April 2024 by 10.00 am, Finnish time at the latest. With respect to nominee registered shares the temporary entry into the shareholders' register is considered as registration for the Annual General Meeting.
Changes in shareholdings after the record date of the Annual General Meeting do not affect the right to participate in the Annual General Meeting or the number of votes of the shareholder.
A holder of nominee registered shares, who wishes to participate in the Annual General Meeting, is advised to request necessary instructions regarding the registration in the temporary shareholder's register of the company, the issuing of proxy documents and registration for the meeting from his/her custodian bank. The custodian bank has to temporarily register a holder of nominee registered shares, who wants to participate in the Annual General Meeting, into the shareholders' register of the company no later than by the time stated above.
A shareholder may participate in the Annual General Meeting and exercise his/her rights at the meeting by way of proxy representation. A proxy representative shall produce a dated proxy document or otherwise in a reliable manner demonstrate his/her right to represent the shareholder at the meeting. When a shareholder participates in the Annual General Meeting by means of several proxy representatives representing the shareholder with shares at different securities accounts, the shares represented by each proxy representative shall be identified in connection with the registration for the Annual General Meeting.
Possible proxy documents should be delivered to the address Reka Industrial Plc, Kankurinkatu 4-6, 05800 Hyvinkää, Finland before the last date of registration.
Pursuant to Chapter 5, section 25 of the Companies Act, a shareholder who is present at the Annual General Meeting has the right to request information with respect to the matters to be considered at the meeting.
On the date of this notice to the Annual General Meeting 27 March 2024, the number of class A shares in Reka Industrial Plc is 139,600 and the number of class B shares is 5,880,760. Based on the Articles of Association of the company, each class A share entitles its holder to 20 votes and each class B share entitles its holder to one vote.
On the date of this notice to the Annual General Meeting 27 March 2024, the company holds 37,150 class B shares, representing in total 0.43 percent of all votes. Treasury shares or shares held by a subsidiary do not entitle to participation in the Annual General Meeting in accordance with the Companies Act.
Hyvinkää 27 March 2024
Reka Industrial Plc The Board of Directors
Further information: President and CEO, Sari Tulander, tel. +358 44 044 1015
Sari Tulander, President and CEO, +358 44 044 1015, [email protected]
As an industrial family company, we are committed to developing the performance and sustainability of the companies we own. Reka Industrial class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd.
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