Annual General Meeting

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2018

The 2018 Annual General Meeting of adidas AG was held on May 9, 2018 at the Stadthalle Fuerth, Fuerth/Bavaria, Germany.

The Annual General Meeting of adidas AG was attended by approximately 540 shareholders and shareholder representatives as well as by around 160 guests. At the time the presence was announced, 70.00% of the nominal capital were represented at the Annual General Meeting.

The shareholders amongst others resolved to pay out a dividend of 2.60 € per share. The dividend amounting to a total of 528,462,623.00 € was paid out on May 15, 2018.

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 540 shareholders and shareholder representatives as well as by around 160 guests.

At the time of voting on the agenda items 2 to 9, 146,458,971 no-par-value shares with the same amount of votes were represented at the Annual General Meeting. This corresponds to 70.00% 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	146,293,695	69.92	146,175,784	99.92	117,911	0.08
ITEM 3: Ratification of the actions of the Executive Board for 2017	145,775,447	69.68	145,213,694	99.61	561,753	0.39
ITEM 4: Ratification of the actions of the Supervisory Board for 2017	145,099,154	69.35	142,150,846	97.97	2,948,308	2.03
ITEM 5: Approval of the compensation system for the members of the Executive Board	142,602,616	68.16	100,084,182	70.18	42,518,434	29.82
ITEM 6: Amendment of § 2 (Purpose of the Company) of the Articles of Association	146,261,000	69.91	146,246,813	99.99	14,187	0.01
ITEM 7: By-election to the Supervisory Board	146,258,327	69.91	144,935,888	99.10	1,322,439	0.90
ITEM 8: Authorisation to issue bonds with warrants and/or convertible bonds; creation of a new contingent capital 2018; revocation of the existing authorisation	146,259,124	69.91	136,863,435	93.58	9,395,689	6.42
ITEM 9a: Appointment of the Auditor and of the Group Auditor for the 2018 financial year	146,384,548	69.97	136,456,132	93.22	9,928,416	6.78
ITEM 9b: Appointment of the auditor for a possible audit review of the 2018 financial year	146,383,998	69.97	136,455,404	93.22	9,928,594	6.78
ITEM 9c: Appointment of the auditor for a possible audit review of the first quarter of 2019	146,381,335	69.97	136,434,253	93.20	9,947,082	6.80

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 2018 including the Agenda (Print version)

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