Annual General Meeting

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On this page we provide all information and documents relating to the Annual General Meeting of adidas AG.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2014

The 2014 Annual General Meeting of adidas AG was held on May 8, 2014 at the Stadthalle Fuerth, Fuerth/Bavaria, Germany.

The Annual General Meeting of adidas AG was attended by approximately 450 shareholders and shareholder representatives as well as by around 180 guests. At the time the presence was announced, 48.01% of the nominal capital were represented at the Annual General Meeting.

The shareholders amongst others resolved to pay out a dividend of 1.50 € per share. The dividend amounting to a total of 313,824,279.00 € was paid out on May 9, 2014.

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.

In addition, the Annual General Meeting has elected Katja Kraus and Kathrin Menges to succeed Alexander Popov and Christian Tourres, who did not stand for re-election. Dr. Stefan Jentzsch, Herbert Kauffmann, Igor Landau and Willi Schwerdtle, 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 2019.

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.

Attendance and Voting Results

The Annual General Meeting of adidas AG was attended by approximately 450 shareholders and shareholder representatives as well as by around 180 guests.

At the time of voting on the agenda items 2 to 10, 100,439,771 no-par-value shares with the same amount of votes were represented at the Annual General Meeting. This corresponds to 48.01% 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

99,504,396

47.56

99,199,483

99.69

304,913

0.31

ITEM 3:

Ratification of the actions of the Executive Board for 2013

99,222,216

47.43

95,169,506

95.92

4,052,710

4.08

ITEM 4:

Ratification of the actions of the Supervisory Board for 2013

95,811,548

45.80

92,652,041

96.70

3,159,507

3.30

ITEM 5:

Election of the Supervisory Board

- Dr. Stefan Jentzsch

97,272,812

46.49

92,474,547

95.07

4,798,265

4.93

- Herbert Kauffmann

97,264,814

46.49

92,163,028

94.75

5,101,786

5.25

- Igor Landau

97,263,881

46.49

92,428,867

95.03

4,835,014

4.97

- Willi Schwerdtle

97,327,178

46.52

92,487,992

95.03

4,839,186

4.97

- Katja Kraus

99,545,745

47.58

97,771,849

98.22

1,773,896

1.78

- Kathrin Menges

99,546,655

47.58

97,774,110

98.22

1,772,545

1.78

ITEM 6:

Amendment of § 18 of the Articles of Association

100,006,796

47.80

99,334,476

99.33

672,320

0.67

ITEM 7:

Authorisation to issue bonds with warrants and/or convertible bonds; creation of a new contingent capital 2014; revocation of the existing authorisation

99,966,085

47.78

84,077,789

84.11

15,888,296

15.89

ITEM 8:

Authorisation to repurchase and use treasury shares purs. to § 71 sec. 1 no. 8 AktG; revocation of the existing authorisation

97,626,637

46.66

89,205,331

91.37

8,421,306

8.63

ITEM 9:

Authorisation to use equity derivatives in connection with the acquisition of treasury shares

97,470,710

46.59

89,050,928

91.36

8,419,782

8.64

ITEM 10a:

Appointment of the Auditor and the Group Auditor for 2014

100,034,192

47.81

97,127,677

97.09

2,906,515

2.91

ITEM 10b:

Appointment of the Auditor for the audit review of the financial statements and the interim financial report for the first six months of the 2014 financial year

100,032,861

47.81

96,698,804

96.67

3,334,057

3.33

Thus, all proposed resolutions were adopted by the Annual General Meeting with the required majority.

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