AGM Information • Apr 11, 2023
AGM Information
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The shareholders of SinterCast Aktiebolag, Company Registration Number 556233-6494 ("SinterCast") are hereby invited to participate in the Annual General Meeting to be held on Tuesday 16 May 2023, 15:00 hours, at the premises of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), Grev Turegatan 16, Stockholm, Sweden.
Shareholders who wish to participate in the Annual General Meeting
In addition, any shareholders whose shares are registered in the name of a custodian must temporarily have the shares re-registered in their own names in order to be entitled to participate in the Annual General Meeting. Shareholders must therefore, well in advance, contact the custodian in accordance with the custodian's routines and request such reregistration. A re-registration of shares made by the custodian no later than Wednesday 10 May 2023 will be taken into account when procuring the share register.
Notification can be made by post to SinterCast Aktiebolag, Kungsgatan 2, SE-641 30 Katrineholm, Sweden, via telephone +46 (0)150 794 40 or e-mail: [email protected].
In the notification, the shareholder's name, personal identity number (Swedish citizens only) or corporate identity number, address, telephone number and the number of advisors, if any, should be stated (a shareholder, or its proxy, may bring up to two advisors provided that the number of advisors is notified in the same way as stated above).
Shareholders represented by proxy are requested to submit a written and dated power of attorney to SinterCast no later than Wednesday 10 May 2023. A power of attorney form is available at www.sintercast.com and can also be provided, upon request, by mail to shareholders who provide their postal address. Anyone representing a corporate entity must provide a copy of the registration certificate or equivalent documentation of authority.
The Nomination Committee proposes that Jan Åke Jonsson is elected as Chairman of the Annual General Meeting.
SEK 76,063,245 are at the disposal of the Annual General Meeting and the Board of Directors proposes a dividend of SEK 5.50 per share (totally SEK 38,995,731.50) for the financial year 2022, of which SEK 5.00 per share is ordinary dividend and SEK 0.50 per share is extraordinary dividend. The dividend shall be divided into two equal payments of SEK 2.75 per share. The Board of Directors proposes 19 May 2023 as the record date for the first payment and 10 November 2023 as the record date for the second payment.
The Nomination Committee proposes five ordinary Board Members, including the Chairman, and no alternate Board Members.
The Nomination Committee further proposes that the company shall have an auditor in the form of a registered auditing company, and no alternate auditors.
The Nomination Committee proposes that remuneration of the Board Members, for the period up until the next Annual General Meeting, shall be SEK 430,000 for the Chair of the Board and SEK 200,000 for the other Board Members elected by the General Meeting, with the exception of Board Members employed by the company. Separate remuneration for committee work shall not be paid.
The Nomination Committee proposes that the Auditor shall be paid against approved invoice.
The Nomination Committee proposes re-election of the present Board Members Robert Dover, Jun Arimoto, Steve Gill and Steve Dawson as ordinary Board Members for the period until the end of the next Annual General Meeting. The present Board Members Jan Åke Jonson (also Chairman of the Board) and Åsa Källenius have declined reelection. The Nomination Committee proposes election of Anna-Maria Heidmark Green as a new ordinary Board Member for the period until the next Annual General Meeting. Robert Dover is proposed as Chairman of the Board.
Information about the proposed Board Members is available on the SinterCast website www.sintercast.com.
The Nomination Committee proposes re-election of the registered auditing company KPMG AB as auditor for the period until the end of the next Annual General Meeting. KPMG AB has announced that in the event that KPMG AB is elected, the authorised public accountant Jonas Eriksson will be the principal auditor.
The Nomination Committee proposes that the Annual General Meeting adopts the following instructions for the Nomination Committee which, inter alia, includes a procedure for the appointment of members of the Nomination Committee.
Before the next annual general meeting, the nomination committee will be composed of representatives of the four shareholders holding the highest percentage of voting rights as shown in the share register1 maintained by Euroclear Sweden as of August 31 each year and other reliable ownership information provided to the company's board of directors at this time.2 The chairman of the board shall be responsible for convening the nomination committee and shall, to the extent that the nomination committee deems appropriate, participate in the work of the nomination committee as an adjunct without voting rights. The company's shareholders shall also be given the opportunity to submit comments on the work and composition of the nomination committee. Such comments must be submitted by e-mail to [email protected] or in writing to the company at the address SinterCast Aktiebolag, Att: Nomination committee, Kungsgatan 2, 641 30 Katrineholm, or such other address as the company designates on its website, www.sintercast.com, no later than the above-mentioned date each year.
The member representing the shareholder holding the highest percentage of voting rights shall be appointed chairman of the nomination committee. In the event that a shareholder entitled to appoint a member chooses not to appoint a member, the right to appoint a member shall pass to the shareholder holding the next highest percentage of voting rights until four members, each representing a shareholder of the company, are appointed. If, more than three months before the annual general meeting, any shareholder that has appointed a member of the nomination committee is no longer one of the four shareholders holding the highest percentage of voting rights, the member appointed by that shareholders must stand down, and any shareholder that has then become one of the four shareholders holding the highest percentage of voting rights will then be entitled to appoint a member. If a member leaves the nomination committee before its work is completed, and the nomination committee finds it desirable that a replacement be appointed, that replacement will represent the same shareholder or, if the shareholder is no longer one of the four shareholders holding the highest percentage of voting rights, the shareholder holding the next highest percentage of voting rights. Changes in membership of the nomination committee must be made public immediately.
The identity of nomination committee members before each annual general meeting must be made public no later than six months before the annual general meeting. No remuneration is payable to members of the nomination committee. The company will pay necessary overheads incurred by the nomination committee in its work. The nomination committee's term of office runs until the identity of the next nomination committee members has been made public.
The nomination committee will draw up proposals on the following matters to be decided at the annual general meeting:
In performing other aspects of its work, the nomination committee must perform the duties incumbent on it under the Swedish Code of Corporate Governance (including accompanying instructions). These instructions for the nomination committee are valid until the annual general meeting resolves otherwise.
1) The ownership statistics to be used must be sorted by voting power (grouped by ownership) and contain the largest shareholders registered in Sweden, i.e. shareholders with an account with Euroclear Sweden AB in their own name or shareholders who hold a custody account with a nominee who has stated the shareholder's identity to Euroclear Sweden AB.
2) This means, for example, that ownership via holding companies, endowment insurance, investment savings account or similar ownership must be taken into account.
The Board of Directors proposes that the Annual General Meeting resolves to approve the Board's report on remuneration to senior executives prepared in accordance with Chapter 8, Section 53 a of the Swedish Companies Act. The report is available at SinterCast and on the SinterCast website www.sintercast.com and will be sent by post, upon request, to shareholders who provide their postal address.
The Board of Directors proposes that the Annual General Meeting authorises the Board to, on one or more occasions prior to the next Annual General Meeting,
The purpose of the authorisation is for SinterCast to be able to acquire its own shares at any given time so as to adapt the capital structure of the company and to be able to transfer shares in connection with a potential acquisition of a company or business.
The shareholders Ulf Stenbeck, personally and via company, and Torbjörn Gustafsson propose that the Annual General Meeting resolves to amend § 6 of the articles of association, as regards the limits for the number of board members, as follows.
The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than five (5) and not more than seven (7) Ordinary Members and not more than two (2) Alternates.
The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than three (3) and not more than five (5) Ordinary Members and not more than one (1) Alternate.
Complete decision proposals from the Nomination Committee regarding items 2, 10-13 and complete decision proposals from the Board of Directors regarding items 9 b), 14 and 15 are stated above. The following documents are available at SinterCast and on the SinterCast website www.sintercast.com and will be sent by post, upon request, to shareholders who provide their postal address:
On the date of issue of this notice, the total number of shares and votes in SinterCast was 7,090,133.
A valid resolution pursuant to item 15 and item 16 respectively requires that it is supported by shareholders representing at least two thirds of the votes and shares represented at the Annual General Meeting.
The Board of Directors and the Managing Director shall, if any shareholder so requests and the Board of Directors considers that this may be done without significant damage being incurred by SinterCast, provide information at the Annual General Meeting regarding circumstances that may affect an assessment of an item on the agenda or circumstances that may affect an assessment of the financial situation of SinterCast. This duty of disclosure also applies to the parent company's relationship to other group companies, the consolidated accounts and such circumstances regarding subsidiaries which are set out in the foregoing sentence.
SinterCast Aktiebolag, Company Registration Number 556233-6494, with its registered office in Stockholm, Sweden, is the controller for its and its service providers' processing of personal data in connection with the Annual General Meeting. For information on how personal data is processed, see:
https://www.euroclear.com/dam/ESw/Legal/Privacy-notice-bolagsstammor-engelska.pdf
This is an unofficial translation of the original Swedish notice to the Annual General Meeting. In the event of any discrepancy between the versions, the Swedish version shall prevail.
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