AGM Information • May 8, 2015
AGM Information
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(org. no. 933 739 384) in Apotekergaten 10, Oslo
On 8 May 2015 at 10.30 a.m., the Annual General Meeting of Schibsted ASA was held. 29 representatives were present for a total of 41 734 007 own shares and 42 465 963 shares by power of attorney. Thus, 84 199 970 of the Company's total of 108,003,615 shares were represented, equivalent to 77,96 % of the shares.
Ole Jacob Sunde and CEO Rolv Erik Ryssdal attended the General Meeting. In addition, the Chairman of the Nomination Committee, John A. Rein, attended.
The General Meeting was opened by the Chairman of the Board.
The Company's auditor, Ernst & Young, was represented by Certified Public Accountant Jan Egil Haga.
The meeting had the following agenda:
Erik Thyness was elected as chair of the meeting.
The notice and agenda were approved, and the General Meeting was declared legally opened.
Catharina Thorenfeldt and Mari Vonen were elected to sign the minutes together with the chair. Both are shareholders of the Company and were present at the general meeting.
CEO Rolv Erik Ryssdal presented the financial statement for 2014 for Schibsted ASA and the group. The Board of Directors' statement on corporate governance was considered.
Resolution: The General Meeting approved the financial statement for 2014 for Schibsted ASA and the Schibsted Group, including the Board of Directors' Report for 2014. The General Meeting took into consideration the Board of Directors' statement on corporate governance.
Resolution: The General Meeting approved the Board of Directors' proposal regarding dividend for the 2014 financial year of NOK 3.50 per share, excluding shares owned by the Group.
Resolution: The General Meeting approved the auditor's fee of NOK 1,063,000
Resolution: The General Meeting resolved to extend the Board of Directors' authorization to acquire and dispose of own shares in Schibsted ASA pursuant to the Norwegian Public Limited Liability Companies Act on the following conditions:
The chairman of the Nomination Committee accounted for the Nomination Committee's work in the period 2014-2015. The General Meeting took the account into consideration.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors accounted for the share purchase program.
Resolution: The General Meeting approved the Board of Directors' Statement of Executive Compensation, including the guidelines for the share purchase program (LTI) and the share saving program (ESSP).
Pursuant to Article 8 of the Articles of Association, Blommenholm Industrier AS exercised its right to directly appoint one director and stated that this director is Ole Jacob Sunde.
Resolution: The General Meeting elected, in accordance with the Nomination Committee's proposal, the following shareholder-elected directors for the period 2015-2016: Ole Jacob Sunde (Chairman), Eva Berneke, Christian Ringnes, Arnaud De Puyfontaine, Eugenie van Wiechen, Birger Steen and Tanya Cordrey.
Resolution: The General Meeting approved the Nomination Committee's proposal regarding fees payable to the Board of Directors and the Board of Directors' Committees for the period from the Annual General Meeting in 2015 to the Annual General Meeting in 2016.
The fees were accordingly resolved to be as follows:
a) Directors' fees: Proposed fee payable to the Chairman of the Board: NOK 800,000. Proposed fee payable to other directors: NOK 375,000.
Additional fees: The Nomination Committee has set the additional fees to NOK 50,000 for Directors who reside outside Oslo, but in a Nordic country, and to NOK 100,000 for Directors who reside outside the Nordic region.
It is proposed not to change the fees payable to the Nomination Committee for the period 2015-2016. The fees to the Nomination Committee are NOK 16,000 per meeting for the Chair of the Committee and NOK 11,000 per meeting for the Committee's other members.
Resolution: The General Meeting approved the proposed fees for the period 2015-2016 of NOK 16,000 per meeting for the Chair of the Committee and NOK 11,000 per meeting for the Committee's other members.
Resolution: The General Meeting approved in accordance with the Nomination Committee's proposal the following members of the nomination committee for the period 2015-2017: John A. Rein (Chairman), Spencer Adair and Ann Kristin Brautaset.
Resolution: The General Meeting authorized the Board of Directors to administrate parts of Article 7 of Schibsted's Articles of Association in accordance with the proposed authorization as worded in the notice of General Meeting. The authorization applies from the Annual General Meeting on 8 May 2015 until the annual general meeting in 2016.
The wording of the authorisation is as follows:
Pursuant to Article 7, third paragraph of the Articles of Association, the Board of Directors is granted authority to make decisions in the following cases referred to in Article 7, second paragraph (a.) of the Articles of Association:
The Board of Directors may, within the limits of the CEO's ordinary authority, delegate its authority under this authorisation to the administration.
Board members appointed pursuant to Article 8, second paragraph, of the Articles of Association may demand that certain matters comprised by this authority must nevertheless be presented to the General Meeting for resolution.
This authorisation applies until the next Annual General Meeting.
CEO Rolv Erik Ryssdal accounted for the proposal. Representatives for three shareholders expressed their support for the proposal, and a representative for one shareholder informed that he would vote against based on the one share one vote principle.
"The share capital is 108 003 615, divided on 108,003,615 A shares with a nominal value of NOK 0.50 and 108,003,615 B shares with a nominal value of 0.50. The Company's shares shall be registered in the Norwegian Registry of Securities.
Each A share will give the right to 10 votes at the Company's General Meeting. Each B share will give right to 1 vote at the Company's General Meeting. Otherwise the A shares and the B shares carry equal rights."
(iii) The first sentence of Article 6 of the Articles of Association shall be amended to read as follows:
"No shareholder may own more than 30% of the shares or vote for more than 30% of the total number of votes which may be cast under the Company's Articles of Association."
(iv) The first paragraph of Article 7 of the Articles of Association shall be amended to read as follows:
"Any resolutions to amend the Articles of Association, shall be passed by the General Meeting and shall require the endorsement of more than (i) 3/4 of the share capital represented in the relevant General Meeting and (ii) 3/4 of the A shares represented in the relevant General Meeting."
(v) The second paragraph of Article 8 of the Articles of Association shall be amended to read as follows:
"Shareholders owning 25% or more of the Company's A shares shall have the right to appoint one of the board members elected by the shareholders. Board members shall be elected for one year at a time."
(vi) The resolutions set out in (i)-(v) above shall become effective in connection with the listing of the B shares as further determined by the Board of Directors of the Company.
The Chairman of the Board, Ole Jacob Sunde, accounted for the proposal.
Resolution:
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There were no further items on the agenda. All resolutions were passed in accordance with necessary majority requirements. A transcript from the Norwegian Registry of Securities demonstrating the voting on each individual item on the agenda is attached to the minutes (schedule). The general meeting was closed at 12:18.
Erik Thyness
Catharina Thorenfeldt Mari Vonen
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