PRESS RELEASE
All proposals approved at Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
Leiden, The Netherlands, 24 May 2023: Koninklijke Brill N.V. ("Brill" or "the Company") (EURONEXT Amsterdam: BRILL) announces that at its Annual General Meeting of shareholders (AGM), held today, all proposals were approved.
The shareholders' advisory vote on the 2022 Remuneration report (agenda item 3.b) was positive; the shareholders adopted the financial statements for the 2022 financial year (agenda item 3.c); the shareholders also approved the new Remuneration Policy (agenda item 4).
The proposals to grant discharge to the members of the Management Board and the Supervisory Board for the 2022 financial year (agenda items 5.a and 5.b) were approved.
Mr. Theo van der Raadt was reappointed as a Supervisory Board member (item 6.b), and Prof. Theo Huibers was appointed (item 6.c). Furthermore, PWC was reappointed as auditor (item 7).
The shareholders approved the proposal to authorize the Management Board (agenda item 8) to repurchase shares in the Company and the designation of the Management Board as the Company's body, authorized to: (i) issue shares, (ii) grant option rights and (iii) restrict or exclude pre-emptive rights (agenda item 9).
Following the meeting, the Supervisory Board resolved to appoint Mr. van der Raadt as chairman, and Prof. Huibers as vice-chairman. The Supervisory Board also re-appointed Dr. Jasmin Lange as Chief Publishing Officer (Bylaws art. 18.1, in anticipation of an EGM to be held later this year).
A recording of the meeting and the presentation slides from today's AGM will be made available on the Company's website.
Leiden, 24th May, 2023
The Management Board
Contact: Peter Hendriks, Chief Executive Officer ([email protected])
About Brill
The contents of this press release may contain inside information as defined in article 7 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014. Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections. Commitment to Open Access and the latest publishing technologies are at the core of Brill's mission to make academic research available for the scholarly community worldwide. The company's key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information, please visit brill.com.