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SAS — AGM Information 2019
Mar 13, 2019
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AGM Information
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Resolutions by the 2019 Annual General Meeting in SAS AB (publ)
Resolutions by the 2019 Annual General Meeting in SAS AB (publ)
The March 13, 2019 Annual General Meeting in SAS (the "AGM") resolved to adopt
the proposal by the Nomination Committee to re-elect Carsten Dilling as Chairman
of the Board and Dag Mejdell, Monica Caneman, Lars-Johan Jarnheimer, Sanna
Suvanto-Harsaae, Liv Fiksdahl and Oscar Stege Unger as Board members, and to
elect Kay Kratky as a new Board member.
The meeting resolved to elect the auditing firm KPMG AB as auditor.
It was further resolved that the five members of the Nomination Committee would
be the Chairman of the Board, along with the shareholder representatives Carl
Rosén, Swedish Ministry of Finance, for the Swedish government; Peder Lundquist,
Danish Ministry of Finance, for the Danish government; Jacob Wallenberg for the
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation; and Gerald Engström, representing himself
and Färna Invest AB.
The AGM resolved in line with the Board's proposal to implement a long-term
incentive plan for all approximately 13,000 full-time and part-time SAS
employees (with the exception of Group Management) comprising of up to 4,782,282
SAS shares in total. In terms of hedging arrangements, the AGM did not approve
the Board's proposal which included issuing and repurchasing convertible C
shares with subsequent transfer to plan participants. Instead, the AGM approved
the Board's alternative hedge proposal of entering into an equity swap agreement
with a third party.
As regards other issues, the AGM resolved in accordance with the respective
proposals from the Board and the Nomination Committee, including to adopt
amended guidelines for remuneration of senior executives, to approve amendments
of the articles of association as well as the consortium agreement and not to
distribute any dividend to SAS shareholders for the financial year 1 November
2017 - 31 October 2018.
For further information, please contact:
SAS Investor Relations
Michel Fischier, VP Investor Relations, +46 70 997 0673