Daimler
AG’s shareholders approved the distribution of a dividend for 2007 of
€2.00 per share (prior year: €1.50 per share) at the Annual Meeting
held in Berlin on Wednesday. The total dividend distribution thus
amounts to €1,928 million. The item of the agenda “Resolution on the
Allocation of Unappropriated Profit” was approved with 99.88 % of the
votes cast.
The shareholders also granted the Board of
Management new authorization to acquire additional shares in a volume
of up to 10% of the existing share capital. The authorization takes
effect as of April 10, 2008 and remains in force until October 9, 2009.
The item of the agenda “Resolution on authorization for the Company to
acquire its own shares and on their utilization” was approved with
99.32% of the votes cast. At the Annual Meeting in 2007, the
shareholders had authorized the management to acquire almost 10 percent
of the outstanding shares; this authorization was fully utilized by the
end
of March 2008.
In addition, the Annual Meeting elected Ms. Sari
Baldauf and Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht as members of the Supervisory Board to
succeed Earl G. Graves und Peter A. Magowan, who stood down at the end
of 2007. Ms. Baldauf, a member of the Board of Directors of
Hewlett-Packard Company and former Executive Vice President and General
Manager of the Networks Business Group of Nokia Corporation, and Mr.
Hambrecht, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE, are
thereby appointed as members of the Supervisory Boardwith immediate
effect until the Annual Meeting in 2013.
Mr. Jörg Hofmann and Mr. Ansgar Osseforth are
new members of the Supervisory Board representing the employees and
succeeding Mr. Wolf Jürgen Röder and Mr. Gerd Rheude. Their period of
office begins immediately after the 2008 Annual Meeting and ends with
the Annual Meeting in 2013.
The actions of the members of the Board of
Management were ratified with 99.62 percent; the actions of the members
of the Supervisory Board were ratified with 99.57 percent. The
additional items of the agenda submitted by shareholders were approved
by a maximum of only 6.07 percent of the votes cast and were therefore
rejected.
Approximately 6,500 shareholders attended the
Annual Meeting at the Berlin Messe exhibition center (prior year:
7,900). 42.45 percent of the shareholders’ voting rights were
represented at the Annual Meeting.
On April 10, 2008, the dividend will be paid out to those shareholders who held shares on April 9, 2008.
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