AGM Information • Apr 6, 2011
AGM Information
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The shareholders of Bong AB (publ) are hereby invited to attend the Annual General Meeting to be held on Thursday 12 May 2011 at 4.00 p.m. CET in IMP's premises at Ångbåtsbron 1 in Malmö.
Shareholders who wish to attend the AGM must
Shareholders represented by proxy must issue a document authorising the proxy to act on the shareholder's behalf. A proxy form is available on the company's website www.bong.com and will be provided to shareholders who contact the company and state their address. Representatives of a legal entity shall present a copy of the certificate of registration or similar document of authorisation showing the persons authorised to act on behalf of the company. The original of the proxy and the document of authorisation should be sent to the company together with the notice of attendance.
In order to participate in the proceedings of the AGM, owners with nominee-registered shares must request their bank or broker to have their shares temporarily owner-registered with Euroclear Sweden AB. Such registration must be made as of Friday 6 May 2011 and the banker or broker should therefore be notified in due time before said date.
The Board of Directors proposes that a dividend of SEK 1.00 per share be declared for the financial year 2010. As record date for the dividend, the Board of directors proposes Tuesday 17 May 2011. If the AGM adopts the proposal, the dividend is expected to be distributed by Euroclear Sweden AB starting Friday 20 May 2011.
In connection with the election of board members and determination of fees at the AGM, the Nomination Committee appointed at the AGM 2010, consisting of Alf Tönnesson (Aktiebolaget Cydonia), Mikael Ekdahl (Melker Schörling AB), Erik Sjöström (Skandia) and Peter Edwall (Ponderus Securities AB) will present and motivate the proposals below and submit a report on the committee's activities.
The Nomination Committee has made the following proposals:
that fees to the board members shall be paid by totally SEK 1,200,000 to be distributed among the members as follows: SEK 300,000 to the Chairman and SEK 150,000 to each of the other members elected at general meetings and not employed with the company, and fees for work in the Audit Committee shall be SEK 100,000 to the Chairman of the Audit Committee and SEK 50,000 to each of the members;
that the accounting company PricewaterhouseCoopers AB shall be elected auditors of the company for a one year period of mandate, consequently, up to and including the AGM 2012, with authorised public accountant Eric Salander as auditor in charge, and
Shareholders representing approximately 71 per cent of all shares and votes in the company have proposed that a Nomination Committee shall be appointed also for the AGM 2012 and: that the Nomination Committee shall have four members;
The Board of Directors proposes that the AGM shall resolve on guidelines for remuneration to the President and other senior executives entailing principally the following: Remuneration to management shall include a fixed salary, a variable remuneration, other benefits and pension. By senior executives is here meant officers of the management, at present consisting of the CEO and President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Business Manager Nordic and ProPac, the Business Manager Central Europe, the Business Manager United Kingdom and the Business Manager France and Spain. The total remuneration shall be according to market conditions and competitive. The variable part of the salary shall have a pre-determined cap and may as a fundamental principle never exceed 60 per cent of the fixed annual salary. The variable remuneration shall be subject to the fulfilment of certain financial targets and also be connected to the achievement of individual targets. The variable remuneration shall not qualify for pension. Pension benefits shall be either income or fee based, or a combination of both, with a pension age of 65 years. On notice of termination by the officer, the notice period shall normally be six months. On dismissal by the company, the notice period and the period of severance pay shall totally not exceed 24 months. The guidelines shall apply to employment agreements concluded after the resolution of the AGM and to any changes in existing agreements. The Board of Directors shall have the right to deviate from the guidelines if motivated by particular reasons on an individual basis.
The extraordinary general meeting held on 22 October 2010 adopted a resolution to implement a long-term variable remuneration ("LRE"). The Board of Directors proposes that the AGM authorise the Board of Directors to resolve on the acquisition of the company's own shares in order to be able supply LRE shares according to LRE on the following terms and conditions.
The resolution of the AGM on the authorisation of the Board of Directors to resolve on the acquisition of the company's own shares is, pursuant to the Swedish Companies Act, subject to the support of shareholders representing at least two-thirds of both the number of votes cast and the shares represented at the meeting in order to be valid.
The accounting documents and the Auditor's Report, the complete proposals of the Board of Directors for resolutions according to items 14 and 15, as well as the statement by the Auditor regarding whether the guidelines for remuneration to the management have been observed and the motivated statement by the Board of Directors on the appropriation of profit under item 9 b are available to the shareholders at the company as from Thursday 21 April 2011. Copies will also be sent to shareholders on request and be available at the AGM. The above documents and the Annual Report will as from said date also be available on the company's website www.bong.com.
At the issue of this notice, the total number of shares and votes in the company amounts to 17,480,995. All shares are of the same class.
The Board of Directors and the CEO shall at the AGM, if any shareholder so requests and the Board of Directors believes that it can be done without significant harm to the company, provide information regarding circumstances that (i) may affect the assessment of an item on the agenda, (ii) circumstances that may affect the assessment of the company's or its subsidiaries' financial position and (iii) the company's relation to other companies within the group.
Kristianstad in April 2011 The Board of Directors BONG AB (publ)
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