Annual General Meeting

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.

Speech and Further Documents Relating to the Event

Attendance and Voting Results

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.

Attendance and Voting Results

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Invitation incl. Agenda and related Documents

Invitation 2017 including the Agenda (Print version)

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