The Annual General Meeting approved the proposed dividend to shareholders of SEK 4.80 per share, divided into two payment occasions of SEK 2.40 each. The record date for the first payment of SEK 2.40 was determined to Tuesday May 17, 2022 and for the second payment of SEK 2.40 was determined to Tuesday November 15, 2022. The first payment is expected to be made on Friday May 20, 2022 and the second payment is expected to be made on Friday November 18, 2022.
The Annual General Meeting discharged the members of the Board of Directors and the CEO from liability for the financial year 2021 and approved the remuneration report for 2021 prepared by the Board of Directors.
The Annual General Meeting approved the remuneration to board members to a total of SEK 1,655,000, of which SEK 500,000 to the Chairman and SEK 225,000 to each of the other board members, and SEK 55,000 to the Deputy Board member. A total fee of SEK 200,000 shall be paid for committee work. Mariana Burenstam Linder, Stefan Gardefjord, Reinhold Geijer and Anna Söderblom were re-elected as ordinary board members. Henrik Ekelund was re-elected as ordinary board member and newly elected as Chairman of the Board. Olivia Ekelund was re-elected as deputy board member. Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers AB was re-elected as auditor. All elections were for the period until the end of the next Annual General Meeting.
The Annual General Meeting resolved in accordance with the Board of Directors' proposal to authorize the Board of Directors to resolve, until the end of the next Annual General Meeting and with deviation from the shareholders' preferential rights, to issue shares or convertibles (corresponding to a maximum of 1,200,000 class B shares) in connection with acquisitions of companies, and to resolve on the issue of shares or convertibles (corresponding to a maximum of 1,200,000 class B shares) for the purpose of obtaining financial flexibility. If both authorizations are exercised, a maximum of 1,930,000 class B shares may be issued, corresponding to adilution of a maximum of 10 percent.
Minutes of complete resolutions from the meeting will be available on the company's website, www.bts.com, no later than Friday May 20, 2022.
The Board
BTS Group AB
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Stefan Brown, CFO, 08-58 70 70 00
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