Annual General Meeting 2009

This year’s Annual General Meeting of adidas AG was held on May 7, 2009 at the City Hall of Fuerth/Bavaria, Germany.

>> RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
With a majority of 99.15 per cent the shareholders of adidas AG approved the distribution of a dividend of € 0,50 per share for the financial year 2008 at the Annual General Meeting held in Fuerth on Thursday. The total amount of the dividend therefore amounted to € 96,757,756.00 and was paid out on May 8, 2009.

The proposal of the administration to ratify the actions of the members of the Executive Board was approved with a majority of 99.31 per cent; the actions of the members of the Supervisory Board were ratified with a majority of 99.21 per cent.

In addition, the Annual General Meeting has elected Herbert Kauffmann and Alexander Popov to succeed Dr. Hans Friderichs and Dr. iur. Manfred Gentz, who did not stand for re-election. Dr. Stefan Jentzsch, Igor Landau, Willi Schwerdtle and Christian Tourres, whose terms in office also expired with the end of the Annual General Meeting, have been re-elected to the Supervisory Board. The term in office of all six shareholder representatives and of the six employee representatives, who were elected by the employees of adidas AG already end of March, expires with the end of the Annual General Meeting 2014.

The Annual General Meeting has further approved the amendment to § 21 section 2 (Provisions on the exercise of voting rights at the General Meeting) and § 22 (time limits for the shareholder’s right to speak) of the Articles of Association.

Moreover, the Annual General Meeting has created two new amounts of authorised capital (Authorised Capital 2009/I in the amount of 50,000,000 € valid for five years from the entry into the Commercial Register and Authorised Capital 2009/II in the amount of 25,000,000 € valid for three years from the entry into the Commercial Register). The former amounts of authorised capital totalling 86,062,500 € (§ 4 sections 2 and 3 of the Articles of Association) have been cancelled.

The Annual General Meeting has further authorised the Executive Board to repurchase and use the Company’s treasury shares pursuant to § 71 section 1 No. 8 of the German Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz - AktG) - also by using equity derivatives. The authorisations are valid until November 6, 2010. The former authorisations to repurchase treasury shares granted on May 8, 2008 have been cancelled.

With a majority of 99.35 per cent, KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has been appointed as auditor of the consolidated financial statements and annual financial statements for the financial year 2009 and for the audit review of the financial statements and interim management report for the first six months of the financial year 2009, if applicable.

For the invitation and agenda as well as all documents relating to the agenda, please go to our "Documents and Reports on the Annual General Meeting 2009" section. The complete voting results, our dividend announcement as well as the recorded speech of Mr. Hainer together with the wording and presentation slides are available for download in our "SERVICE"-Section below.

>> ATTENDANCE
The Annual General Meeting of adidas AG was attended by approximately 532 shareholders and shareholder representatives. 48.79 percent of the shareholders’ voting rights were represented at the Annual General Meeting.

>> ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2010
The next Annual General Meeting of adidas AG will be held in early May 2010. The exact date and place will be announced in due time.

>> SERVICE

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