EANS-News: freenet AG
Resolves of the freenet Annual General Meeting 2012
10.05.2012 – 01:39
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corporate news transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer/originator is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annual & Special Corporate Meetings Büdelsdorf, 10. May 2012 (euro adhoc) - Yesterday's ordinary Annual General Meeting of freenet AG in Hamburg resolved to pay a dividend of 1.20 EUR per dividend-entitled share, for a total payout of 153,613,219.20 Euro. The ordinary Annual General Meeting of freenet AG also appointed six shareholder representatives to the Supervisory Board: Thorsten Kraemer, Dr. Hartmut Schenk, Prof. Dr. Helmut Thoma, Marc Tüngler, Robert Weidinger and Achim Weiss. The term of office for these members ends at the end of Annual General Meeting that passes the resolution to formally approve their actions for the 2016 financial year. The term of office of the current shareholder representatives on the Supervisory Board ended at the end of the regular Annual General Meeting of freenet AG on 9 May 2012. The Supervisory Board of freenet AG is now composed as follows: Thorsten Kraemer, a consultant and telecommunications expert. He has been associated with the company for around 13 years and sat on the freenet Supervisory Board from July 2007 until the end of June 2011, serving as its Chairman from July 2009 to 30 June 2011. Dr. Hartmut Schenk, Managing Partner of Casaplan Seeliger GmbH in Saarbrücken. Dr. Schenk also chairs the Supervisory Board of Optima Gruppe Aktiengesellschaft in Saarbrücken, and has sat on the Supervisory Board of freenet AG since 30 June 2011. Prof. Dr. Helmut Thoma, a native of Vienna, self-employed media consultant and a long-time association of the company: he was a member of the mobilcom Supervisory Board for many years, and chaired the Supervisory Board of freenet.de AG and most recently that of the new freenet AG. Marc Tüngler, a solicitor and Managing Director of the Deutsche Schutzvereinigung für Wertpapierbesitz e.V. (DSW - German Association of Private Shareholders), Mr Tüngler also sits on the Supervisory Board of the publicly listed InnoTec TSS AG, Dusseldorf, and is a member of the Board of the German Supervisory Board Working Group (AdAR), Cologne. Robert Weidinger is a freelance auditor, tax adviser and Corporate Finance consultant in Valley. Achim Weiss has sat on the Supervisory Board of freenet AG since the regular Annual General Meeting 2009. The freenet AG Executive Board also thanks the departing shareholder representatives Dr. Christof Aha, Dr. Arnold Bahlmann, and Niclas Rauscher for their work. In particular, the entire Executive Board would like to expressly thank the departing Supervisory Board Chairman, Maarten Henderson. In its session after the Annual General Meeting on 9th May 2012, the Supervisory Board of freenet AG elected a new chairman. The results of the voting at yesterday's Annual General Meeting will be available online shortly at www.freenet-group.de, under Investor Relations. Further inquiry note: freenet AG Investor Relations Tel.: +49 (0)40 51306-778 E-Mail: ir@freenet.ag end of announcement euro adhoc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- company: freenet AG Hollerstraße 126 D-24782 Büdelsdorf phone: +49 (0)4331 691000 mail: ir@freenet.ag WWW: http://www.freenet-group.de sector: Telecommunications ISIN: DE000A0Z2ZZ5 indexes: Midcap Market Index, TecDAX, CDAX, HDAX, Prime All Share, Technology All Share stockmarkets: free trade: Hannover, Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt language: English