Shareholders in Elanders AB (publ) are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting to be held on Wednesday April 23, 2025 at 1.00 p.m. at Södra Porten Conference Center, Flöjelbergsgatan 1 C, Mölndal. Lunch will be served from 11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., and registration for the meeting will begin at 12.30 p.m.
RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE
Shareholders who wish to attend the Annual General Meeting must be recorded in the register of shareholders maintained by Euroclear Sweden AB on Friday April 11, 2025. In addition, shareholders must notify the company of their intention to participate in the Meeting by latest April 15, 2025.
In order to be entitled to participate in the meeting, shareholders who have trustee-registered their shares must, in addition to notify its intention to participate in the meeting, re-register the shares with Euroclear Sweden AB in their own name in order for the shareholder to be registered in shareholders' register as of April 11, 2025. Such registration, which may be temporary (so called voting rights registration), is to be requested with the trustee in accordance with the trustee's routines at such time in advance as decided by the trustee. Voting rights registrations made no later than the second bank day after April 11, 2025, will be considered in the production of the share register.
There is a total of 35,357,751 shares in Elanders, whereof 1,814,813 class A-shares with ten votes per share and 33,542,938 class B-shares with one vote per share. The shares entitle to 51,691,068 votes in total. The company does not hold any treasury shares.
NOTIFICATION
Notice of attendance shall be made in one of the following ways:
- on Elanders' website www.elanders.com;
- in writing to Elanders AB (publ), att "Annual General Meeting 2025”, c/o Euroclear Sweden AB, Box 191, 101 23 Stockholm, Sweden; or
- by telephone +46 8 402 91 33.
Shareholder represented by a proxy shall issue a power of attorney for the proxy. If the power of attorney is issued by a legal entity, a registration certificate or a corresponding document which indicates the authorised signatories of the legal entity must be enclosed. The original power of attorney, and any registration certificate or the equivalent, should be sent to the company well in advance of the Meeting at the address above. Proxy forms are available at www.elanders.com and can also be ordered from the company at the address above.
PROPOSED AGENDA
- Opening of the Meeting
- Election of Chairman of the Meeting
- Preparation and approval of the voting list
- Approval of the agenda
- Election of two persons to approve the minutes
- Determination of whether the Meeting has been duly convened
- Presentation by the Chief Executive Officer
- Presentation of the work performed by the Board and its committees
- Presentation of the annual accounts and the auditors' report as well as the consolidated financial statements and the auditors' report for the group
- Resolutions regarding
- adoption of the income statement and balance sheet as well as the consolidated income statement and consolidated balance sheet
- allocation of the company's profits according to the adopted balance sheet
- the discharge of Board Members and the Chief Executive Officer from liability
- Determination of the number of Board Members, deputies and auditors
- Resolutions regarding
- the remuneration to the Board of Directors
- the remuneration to the auditor
- Election of Board Members and Chairman of the Board
- re-election of Carl Bennet;
- re-election of Ulrika Dellby;
- re-election of Eva Elmstedt;
- re-election of Dan Frohm;
- re-election of Erik Gabrielson;
- re-election of Anna Hallberg;
- re-election of Anne Lenerius;
- re-election of Magnus Nilsson;
- re-election of Johan Trouvé; and
- re-election of Dan Frohm as Chairman of the Board.
- Election of auditor
- Resolution regarding the nomination committee
- Resolution to approve the Board of Directors' remuneration report
- Closure of the Meeting DIVIDEND DISTRIBUTION (ITEM 10 b)
- the appointment of Dan Frohm as Chairman of the Meeting,
- that the Board shall be composed of nine Members without any deputies,
- that the remuneration to the Members of the Board shall amount to SEK 4,693,800 (4,512,600 preceding year), to be divided so that the Chairman receives SEK 882,000 (848,000) and the other Members not employed by the company receive SEK 441,000 (424,000) each, the chairman of the audit committee receives SEK 180,000 (173,000) and each other Member of the audit committee receives SEK 90,000 (86,500), the chairman of the remuneration committee receives SEK 92,400 (88,800) and each other Member of the remuneration committee receives SEK 46,200 (44,400),
- the re-election of the Board Members Carl Bennet, Ulrika Dellby, Eva Elmstedt, Dan Frohm, Erik Gabrielson, Anna Hallberg, Anne Lenerius, Magnus Nilsson and Johan Trouvé.
- the re-election of Dan Frohm as Chairman of the Board,
- that the company shall have one auditor without any deputies,
- that remuneration to the auditor be paid according to approved invoices within the limits of the offer, and
- that a new election of the registered auditing firm Ernst & Young AB will take place for the period up until the end of the Annual General Meeting in 2026. Authorized Public Accountant Andreas Mast is intended to be the auditor in charge.
- to instruct the Chairman of the Board to convene a nomination committee for the Annual General Meeting 2026, composed of the Chairman of the Board and one representative of each of the company's four largest shareholders as per August 31, 2025,
- to instruct the Chairman of the Board, in consultation with the representatives of the company's four largest shareholders, to determine if one representative of the minority shareholders also should be appointed to the nomination committee,
- that, in the event any of the four largest shareholders refrains from exercising its right to appoint a representative to the nomination committee, such right shall pass to the shareholder that, next to these four shareholders, has the largest shareholding in the company,
- that, in the event a representative no longer represents the relevant shareholder, or otherwise resigns from the nomination committee prior to the completion of its work, such shareholder shall be offered the opportunity to appoint a new representative to the nomination committee,
- that, in the event a representative represents a shareholder that has sold all or the main part of its shareholding in Elanders, the nomination committee may resolve that such member shall resign and, if deemed appropriate by the nomination committee, offer another representative for a larger shareholder a place in the nomination committee, and
- that the nomination committee shall perform such duties that fall on the nomination committee in accordance with the Swedish Corporate Governance Code.
The Board of Directors proposes that the Annual General Meeting resolves on a dividend of SEK 4.15 (4.15) per share for the fiscal year 2024. As record date for the dividend, the Board proposes Friday April 25, 2025. If the Meeting resolves in accordance with the proposal, it is expected that the dividend will be disbursed by Euroclear Sweden on Wednesday April 30, 2025. The last day for trading in the Elanders share including the right to dividend is Wednesday April 23, 2025.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS ETC (ITEMS 2 and 11 - 14)
The nomination committee, composed of Carl Bennet (Carl Bennet AB), Chairman, Johan Ståhl (Svolder AB), Dan Frohm (Chairman of the Board of Elanders AB), Jannis Kitsakis (Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund) and Viktor Henriksson (Carnegie Funds), proposes:
THE NOMINATION COMMITTEE (ITEM 15)
The nomination committee proposes that the Annual General Meeting resolves:
The annual report and other supporting documentation will be held available at the company's premises at Flöjelbergsgatan 1 C in Mölndal, Sweden, and on its website, www.elanders.com, at least three weeks before the Meeting. Copies of these documents will be sent to shareholders who so request and provide their postal address.
The shareholders are reminded of their right to demand information according to Chapter 7 Section 32 of the Swedish Companies Act.
For information about the processing of your personal data, please refer to www.euroclear.com/dam/ESw/Legal/Privacy-notice-bolagsstammor-engelska.pdf.
If you have any questions regarding our processing of personal data, you can contact us by e-mail at dataprotection@elanders.com. Elanders' corporate registration number is 556008-1621 and its registered office is in Mölndal municipality, Sweden.
Mölndal, Sweden, in March 2025
The Board of Directors of Elanders AB (publ)
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