DGAP-Adhoc: New Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mobimo Holding AG
12.09.2013 – 06:50
Mobimo Holding AG / Key word(s): Miscellaneous 12.09.2013 06:45 Release of an ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 KR --------------------------------------------------------------------------- P r e s s R e l e a s e New Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mobimo Holding AG Lucerne/Küsnacht, 12 September 2013 - At yesterday's meeting of the Board of Directors, Mobimo Holding AG appointed its Vice Chairman Georges Theiler as the new Chairman of the company's Board of Directors. The handover is connected to today's announcement of the planned IPO by Ledermann Immobilien AG, whose founder and owner, Urs Ledermann, has been member of the Mobimo Holding AG Board of Directors since 2003 and Chairman since 2008. The handover will take place in consultation with Mr Ledermann, who will remain with the company as a member of the Board of Directors until the end of his one-year term of office, i.e. until the next General Meeting, without being member of a committee. The Board of Directors and the Executive Board would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Ledermann and express their tremendous respect for all that he has accomplished for Mobimo over a period of many years. Under his management, the Group's strategy was redefined and successfully implemented in 2008. Its diversified real estate portfolio has grown from around CHF 1.5 billion in 2008 to CHF 2.5 billion today and at the same time has undergone significant optimisation in terms of quality. Georges Theiler (born 1949) has been a member of the Board of Directors of Mobimo Holding AG since 2000. He has also been Chairman of the Real Estate Committee and the Remuneration Committee to date. Mr Theiler is an entrepreneur and Certified Operational Engineer (Dipl. Betriebsingenieur ETH) and attended the Federal Institute of Technology. He was elected to the Swiss Council of States as a representative of the canton of Lucerne in 2011. For enquiries please contact: Mobimo Holding AG Dr. Christoph Caviezel, CEO +41 44 397 11 86 ir@mobimo.ch www.mobimo.ch About Mobimo Mobimo Holding AG was established in 1999 in Lucerne and has been listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 2005. The Mobimo Group has an attractive portfolio mix of investment properties providing stable income and development properties offering extensive value enhancement potential. Investments are focused on promising locations, mainly in Zurich and Lausanne/Geneva and also in the Basel, Lucerne/Zug, Aarau and St. Gallen economic regions. With a property portfolio that has an overall value of around CHF 2.5 billion, Mobimo is one of the leading real estate companies in Switzerland. The portfolio contains development properties with an investment volume of more than CHF 1.5 billion (as at 30 June 2013). 12.09.2013 News transmitted by EQS Schweiz AG. The issuer is responsible for the contents of the release. EquityStory publishes regulatory releases, media releases on the capital market and press releases. The EquityStory Group distributes authentic and real-time financial news for over 1'300 listed companies. The Swiss news archive can be found at www.equitystory.ch/news ---------------------------------------------------------------------------