2017
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2017
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2017
The 2017 Annual General Meeting of adidas AG was held on May 11, 2017 at the Stadthalle Fuerth, Fuerth/Bavaria, Germany.
The Annual General Meeting of adidas AG was attended by approximately 560 shareholders and shareholder representatives as well as by around 150 guests. At the time the presence was announced, 64.63% of the nominal capital were represented at the Annual General Meeting.
The shareholders amongst others resolved to pay out a dividend of 2.00 € per share. The dividend amounting to a total of 405,048,436.00 € was paid out on May 16, 2017.
The Annual General Meeting agreed to each of the resolutions proposed by the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board with the required majority. No countermotions were received.
Below please find the speech of the Chief Executive Officer Mr. Kasper Rorsted 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 560 shareholders and shareholder representatives as well as by around 150 guests.
At the time of voting on the agenda items 2 to 9, 135,207,121 no-par-value shares with the same amount of votes were represented at the Annual General Meeting. This corresponds to 64.63% 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 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ITEM 2: Appropriation of Retained Earnings |
134,970,592 | 64.51 | 134,456,903 | 99.62 | 513,689 | 0.38 |
| ITEM 3: Ratification of the actions of the Executive Board for 2016 |
134,511,510 | 64.29 | 134,046,483 | 99.65 | 465,027 | 0.35 |
| ITEM 4: Ratification of the actions of the Supervisory Board for 2016 |
133,960,848 | 64.03 | 131,294,327 | 98.01 | 2,666,521 | 1.99 |
| ITEM 5: Amendment of § 18 of the Articles of Association |
134,946,474 | 64.50 | 133,705,115 | 99.08 | 1,241,359 | 0.92 |
|
ITEM 6: Cancellation of the Authorised Capital pursuant to § 4 sec. 2 Articles of Association, creation of a new Authorised Capital together with the authorisation to exclude subscription rights; amendment to the Articles of Association |
135,019,313 | 64.54 | 124,431,292 | 92.16 | 10,588,021 | 7.84 |
|
ITEM 7: Cancellation of the Authorised Capital pursuant to § 4 sec. 3 Articles of Association, creation of a new Authorised Capital together with the authorisation to exclude subscription rights; amendment to the Articles of Association |
135,019,688 | 64.54 | 122,637,738 | 90.83 | 12,381,950 | 9.17 |
|
ITEM 8: Cancellation of the Authorised Capital pursuant to § 4 sec. 4 Articles of Association, creation of a new Authorised Capital together with the authorisation to exclude subscription rights; amendment to the Articles of Association |
135,018,142 | 64.54 | 124,012,331 | 91.85 | 11,005,811 | 8.15 |
| ITEM 9a: Appointment of the Auditor and of the Group Auditor for the 2017 financial year |
133,283,022 | 63.71 | 122,155,228 | 91.65 | 11,127,794 | 8.35 |
| ITEM 9b: Appointment of the auditor for a possible audit review of the 2017 financial year |
133,281,382 | 63.71 | 122,158,107 | 91.65 | 11,123,275 | 8.35 |
|
ITEM 9c: Appointment of the auditor for a possible audit review of the first quarter of 2018 |
133,278,304 | 63.70 | 122,155,107 | 91.65 | 11,123,197 | 8.35 |
Thus, all proposed resolutions were adopted by the Annual General Meeting with the required majority.