AGM Information • Apr 15, 2013
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 Wednesday 22 May 2013 at 4.00 p.m. CET in IMP's premises at Ångbåtsbron 1 in Malmö.
Shareholders who wish to attend the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") must
On giving notice of attendance, the shareholder shall state name, personal identity number or corporate identification number, address and telephone number, shareholding and the number of advisors that the shareholder wishes to bring to the General Meeting (maximum two advisors).
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 General Meeting, owners with nomineeregistered shares must request their bank or broker to have their shares owner-registered with Euroclear Sweden AB. Such registration must be made as of Thursday 16 May 2013 and the banker or broker should therefore be notified in due time before said date.
The Board of Directors has proposed that no dividend is to be distributed for the financial year 2012 and that the results of the company of totally SEK 543,136,532, including this year's result of SEK 2,165,823 should be carried forward.
The Nomination Committee appointed at the AGM 2012, consisting of Alf Tönnesson (Aktiebolaget Cydonia), Mikael Ekdahl (Melker Schörling AB), Erik Sjöström (Skandia) and Peter Edwall (Ponderus Securities AB) has made the following proposals:
that new election shall be made of Stéphane Hamelin as Chairman of the Board;
that fees to the board members shall be paid by totally SEK 900,000 (committee work excluded) 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;
Shareholders representing approximately 50 per cent of all shares and votes in the company have proposed that a Nomination Committee shall be appointed also for the AGM 2014 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 CEO 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 company's CEO and President and Business Manager Nordic, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), the Business Manager Bong Packaging Solutions AB, 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 group's 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. The group management's employment contracts include provisions regarding remuneration and termination of employment according to which employment can ordinarily cease on notice of termination by the employee with a notice period of 4-12 months and on dismissal by the company within a notice period of 6-18 months. On dismissal by the company, the notice period and the period during which remuneration is paid shall totally not exceed 18 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 accounting documents and the Auditor's Report, the complete proposal of the Board of Directors for resolution according to item 14, as well as the statement by the auditor regarding whether the guidelines for remuneration to the management have been observed, are available to the shareholders at the company as from Wednesday 1 May 2013. Copies will also be sent to shareholders on request and be available at the General Meeting. 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.
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 2013 The Board of Directors BONG AB (publ)
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