2013
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2013
The 2013 Annual General Meeting of adidas AG was held on May 8, 2013 at the Stadthalle Fuerth, Fuerth/Bavaria, Germany.
The Annual General Meeting of adidas AG was attended by approximately 380 shareholders and shareholder representatives as well as by around 140 guests. At the time the presence was announced, 40.87 percent of the nominal capital were represented at the Annual General Meeting.
The shareholders amongst others resolved to pay out a dividend of 1.35 € per share. This represents an increase of 35% versus the previous year, when the dividend amounted to 1.00 € per share. The dividend amounting to a total of 282,441,851.10 € was paid out on May 9, 2013.
All resolutions proposed by the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board were passed with the required majority. No countermotions were received.
Below please find the speech of the Chief Executive Officer Mr. Herbert Hainer with presentation slides, the complete voting results as well as further documents relating to the event.
The Annual General Meeting of adidas AG was attended by approximately 380 shareholders and shareholder representatives as well as by around 140 guests.
At the time of voting on the agenda items 2 to 9, 85,480,118 no-par-value shares with the same amount of votes were represented at the Annual General Meeting. This corresponds to 40.86% of the nominal capital entitled to vote.
Voting Results
Valid votes total | Valid votes in % of nom. capital |
Yes-votes total |
Yes-votes in % of valid votes |
No-votes total |
No-votes in % of valid votes |
|
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ITEM 2: Appropriation of Retained Earnings |
85,279,988 | 40.76 | 85,130,248 | 99.82 | 149,740 | 0.18 |
ITEM 3: Ratification of the actions of the Executive Board for 2012 |
84,760,948 | 40.51 | 84,238,021 | 99.38 | 522,927 | 0.62 |
ITEM 4: Ratification of the actions of the Supervisory Board for 2012 |
79,691,161 | 38.09 | 78,987,186 | 99.12 | 703,975 | 0.88 |
ITEM 5: Approval of the amendment of existing corporate agreements |
85,268,844 | 40.76 | 85,260,552 | 99.99 | 8,292 | 0.01 |
ITEM 6: Cancellation of the Authorised Capital purs. to § 4 section 2 of the Articles of Association; creation of a new Authorised Capital 2013/I |
85,240,583 | 40.74 | 81,334,358 | 95.42 | 3,906,225 | 4.58 |
ITEM 7: Cancellation of the Authorised Capital purs. to § 4 section 3 of the Articles of Association; creation of a new Authorised Capital 2013/II |
85,239,349 | 40.74 | 64,278,447 | 75.41 | 20,960,902 | 24.59 |
ITEM 8: Cancellation of the Authorised Capital purs. to § 4 section 4 of the Articles of Association; creation of a new Authorised Capital 2013/III |
85,236,942 | 40.74 | 67,379,375 | 79.05 | 17,857,567 | 20.95 |
ITEM 9a: Appointment of the Auditor and the Group Auditor for 2013 |
84,382,628 | 40.33 | 82,820,628 | 98.15 | 1,562,000 | 1.85 |
ITEM 9b: Appointment of the Auditor for the audit review of the financial statements and the interim financial report for the first six months of the 2013 financial year |
79,065,228 | 37.79 | 77,516,433 | 98.04 | 1,548,795 | 1.96 |
Thus, all proposed resolutions were adopted by the Annual General Meeting with the required majority.