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Columbus AGM Information 2016

Mar 29, 2016

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                           Release no. 7/2016

According to Art. 8.3 of the Articles of Association, notice is hereby given of
the Annual General Meeting of Columbus A/S to be held on:

                    Thursday 28 April 2016 at 10.00

at Columbus, Lautrupvang 6, 2750 Ballerup, with the following agenda:

  1. Board of Directors‘ report on the business of the Company during the past
    year.
  2. Presentation and approval of the annual report.
  3. Resolution on the appropriation of profit or covering of loss as recorded
    in the adopted Annual Report.
  4. Proposal from the Board of Directors about amendment of the authorizations
    in Art. 5 of the Articles of Association.
  5. Proposal from the Board of Directors that the general meeting authorizes
    the Board of Directors for a period of 18 months from the date of the
    General Meeting to acquire for the Company up to 10 per cent of the
    Company‘s share capital against payment which shall not deviate more than
    10 per cent up or downwards from the latest listed price of the shares at
    NASDAQ Copenhagen prior to the acquisition.
  6. Election of members of the Board of Directors
    1. The Board of Directors proposes that Ib Kunøe, Jørgen Cadovius, Sven
      Madsen and Peter Skov Hansen be re-elected. Information about the
      managerial posts held by the members of the Board of Directors is
      available in the Annual Report 2015.
  7. Election of one or two state authorized public accountants as auditors.
    1. The Board of Directors proposes that Deloitte Statsautoriseret
      Revisionsaktieselskab (CVR no. 24 21 37 14) be re-elected.
  8. Any other business

Full wording of proposals

Re. item 2:

The Board of Directors recommends that the Annual Report be approved.

Re. item 3:

The Board of Directors proposes that the Annual General Meeting approves the
Board of Directors’ proposal for the allocation of profit as stated in the
Annual Report for 2015, including

distribution of an ordinary dividend to shareholders of DKK 0.125 per share of
DKK 1.25 (nom.), corresponding to total dividends of DKK 14,212,321.

Re. item 4:

The Board of Directors proposes to amend Art. 5.1 to read as follows:

"5.1

Until 28th April 2020, the Board of Directors shall be authorized to issue
warrants in one or more tranches to employees and members of the Board of
Directors of the Company and its subsidiaries of up to DKK 10,000,000
(nominal), corresponding to 8,000,000 shares of DKK 1.25 (nominal). The
warrants shall carry the right to subscribe for shares at market price at the
time of allocation of the warrants.”

And Art. 5.4 to read as follows:

“5.4

Up to and including 28th April 2020, the Board of Directors shall be authorized
to increase the Company's share capital in one or more tranches by up to a
total of DKK 27,243,750 (nominal) against cash payment when warrants are
exercised. Shareholders of the Company shall have no pre-emptive rights to
shares issued as part of issued warrants being exercised.”

Re. item 5:

The Board of Directors recommends that the proposal be adopted.

Adoption requirements

For adoption of the proposals under the items 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 on the agenda
simple majority is required.

For adoption of the proposals under the items 4 on the it is required that
two-thirds of the votes cast as well as the voting share capital represented at
the general meeting assets hereto.

Registration date

The date of registration is Thursday 21 April 2016, at 23:59 CET.

Only shareholders who possess shares in the Company at the expiration of the
registration date are entitled to participate and vote at the Annual General
Meeting. On expiry of the date of registration, the shares held by each of the
Company‘s shareholders on the date of registration date is determined on the
basis of the shares registered in the register of shareholders and duly

evidenced notifications to the Company of share acquisitions not yet entered in
the register of shareholders, but received by the Company before expiry of the
date of registration.

Participation is furthermore conditional on the shareholder‘s punctual
requisitioning of an admission card as described below.

Procedure for participating in and voting at the Companys Annual General Meeting

Requisition of admission cards:

Admission cards can be ordered electronically at the Company’s website
www.columbusglobal.com > Investor, by submission of registration form to
Computershare A/S, Kongevejen 418, 2840 Holte (or by fax 4546 0998), by written
request to the Company’s office at Lautrupvang 6, 2750 Ballerup or by e-mail to
[email protected]. Registration must reach Computershare A/S or the
Company no later than 25 April 2016 at 12:00pm CET.

Proxies:

A proxy form can be downloaded and printed from www.columbusit.com > Investor,
and sent completed and signed to Computershare A/S, Kongevejen 418, 2840 Holte
(or by fax 4546 0998). The proxy must reach Computershare A/S no later than 25
April 2016 at 10:00am CET.

Postal voting:

Shareholders can also vote in writing. A postal voting form can be downloaded
and printed from www.columbusit.com > Investor, and sent completed and signed
to Computershare A/S,

Kongevejen 418, 2840 Holte (or by fax 4546 0998). The proxy must reach
Computershare A/S no later than 27 April 2016 at 12.00pm CET. Received postal
votes cannot be withdrawn.

Further information

Questions from shareholder regarding the agenda must be submitted in written
form to the Company.

The share issuing bank is Nordea A/S, through which shareholders may exercise
their financial rights.

Information from the Company

No later than 1 April 2016 the following information will be available to the
shareholders at the Company’s website www.columbusit.com > Investor:

• This agenda including the full wording of proposals for the Annual
General Meeting

• The total number of shares and entitled voters at the time of notice to
convene the Annual General Meeting

• The documents which will be presented at the Annual General Meeting,
including the audited Annual Report 2015

• The forms which must be used when voting by proxy or postal votes

By the notice to convene annual general meeting Columbus A/S has registered a
share capital of nominal DKK 142,123,215 corresponding to 113,698,572 shares of
nominal DKK 1.25.

Each share of nominal DKK 1.25 provides 1 vote.

                        Ballerup, 29 March 2016

                 The Board of Directors of Columbus A/S

Translation: In the event of any inconsistency between this document and the
Danish language version, the Danish language version shall be the governing
version.