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Carlsberg A/S — AGM Information 2012
Mar 22, 2012
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Download source fileThe Annual General Meeting of Carlsberg A/S took place on Thursday 22 March
2012 in accordance with the agenda announced on 28 February 2012.
The Annual Report 2011 was approved as was the Supervisory Board's proposal
regarding the distribution of the profit for the year including a dividend of
DKK 5.50 per share. Discharge of the Supervisory Board and the Executive Board
in respect of the duties performed during the year was granted.
As proposed by the Supervisory Board, Flemming Besenbacher, Jess Søderberg,
Niels Kærgård, Lars Stemmerik, Per Øhrgaard, Cornelius (Kees) van der Graaf and
Richard Burrows were reelected as members of the Supervisory Board. Also as
proposed by the Supervisory Board, Donna Cordner, Elisabeth Fleuriot and
Søren-Peter Fuchs Olesen were elected as new members of the Supervisory Board.
In addition to the ten members of the Supervisory Board elected by the General
Meeting, the Supervisory Board consists of four members elected by the
employees: Hans Andersen, Bent Ole Petersen, Peter Petersen and Thomas Knudsen.
The latter has joined the board instead of Ulf Olsson who has resigned.
As proposed by the Supervisory Board, the auditing firm KPMG Statsautoriseret
Revisionspartnerselskab was elected as auditor.
The General Meeting also approved the proposal from the Supervisory Board
regarding the remuneration of the Supervisory Board for 2012.
Proposals put forward by two shareholders regarding decisions to be made by the
Annual General Meeting were not approved.
At a subsequent Supervisory Board Meeting, the Supervisory Board elected
Flemming Besenbacher as chairman and Jess Søderberg as deputy chairman. In
addition, Jess Søderberg, Richard Burrows and Flemming Besenbacher were elected
as members of the Audit Committee with Jess Søderberg as chairman. The
composition of the other board committees will be made public on Carlsberg's
website www.carlsberggroup.com as soon as possible.
Contacts:
Investor Relations: Peter Kondrup, +45 3327 1221
Media Relations: Jens Bekke, +45 3327 1412
Ben Morton; +45 3327 1417