Annual General Meeting 2018 of Nilfisk Holding A/S

Company announcement
March 23, 2018
Announcement No. 11

The Annual General Meeting of Nilfisk Holding A/S was held on Friday March 23, 2018.

The Annual General Meeting approved the following:

• The audited Annual Report 2017, including the Board of Director’s proposal that this year’s profits are transferred to retained comprehensive income and consequently no dividend will be distributed
• Discharge of Management and the Board of Directors from their liabilities
• The Board of Director’s proposal for remuneration to the Board of Directors for 2018

Jens Due Olsen, Lars Sandahl Sørensen, Jens Maaløe, Jutta af Rosenborg, Anders Runevad, and René Svendsen-Tune were re-elected as members of the Board of Directors. 

As proposed by the Board of Directors, Deloitte Statsautoriseret Revisionspartnerselskab was re-elected as auditor of the Company. 

The proposal from the Board of Directors to amend the Remuneration Policy of the Company was approved.

The proposal from the Board of Directors to grant an extraordinary one-off bonus to the Company’s CEO was approved.

Finally, the Annual General Meeting authorized the Board of Directors to acquire treasury shares, cf. section 198 of the Danish Companies Act.

The Company has recently held an election of employee-elected members of the Board of Directors, as the election period of the former employee-elected members was about to expire. The outgoing employee-elected members, Jean-Marc Rios Dionne, Yvonne Markussen and Michael Gamtofte, stepped down immediately after closing of the Annual General Meeting. The new employee-elected members of the Board of Directors are elected for the period 2018 to 2022 and joined the Board of Directors immediately after the closing of the Annual General Meeting. The employee-elected members joining the Board of Directors are: Gerner Raj Andersen (newly elected), Søren Giessing Kristensen (newly elected) and Michael Gamtofte (re-elected).

At a constituting meeting of the Board of Directors held after the Annual General Meeting, Jens Due Olsen was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors and Lars Sandahl Sørensen was elected Deputy Chairman. 

The Chairman’s report is available at investor.nilfisk.com. 

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