CHICAGO, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc.
(NASDAQ: CME) today announced the preliminary shareholder voting
results from its 2011 annual meeting.
At the meeting, shareholders:
- elected Craig S. Donohue (Chief
Executive Officer), Timothy S.
Bitsberger, Jackie M. Clegg,
James A. Donaldson, J. Dennis Hastert, Bruce
F. Johnson, William P. Miller
II, Ronald A. Pankau,
Terry L. Savage and Christopher Stewart each for a three-year term
expiring in 2014;
- ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young as the company's
independent registered public accounting firm for 2011;
- approved on an advisory, non-binding basis, the Company's
executive compensation program for its named executive officers;
and
- indicated on an advisory, non-binding basis, a preference for
annual advisory votes on executive compensation going forward.
In addition, the company's Class B-1 and Class B-2 shareholders
elected their respective nominating committees to identify two
Class B directors for election at the 2012 annual meeting.
The official results and voting percentages for each of these
proposals will be disclosed in a report to be filed early next week
with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage
risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global
benchmark products across all major asset classes, including
futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes,
foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather
and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers
together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and
its trading facilities in New York
and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the
world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, which
offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded
contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions
through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that
businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty
credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives
markets.
CME Group is a trademark of CME Group Inc. The Globe Logo, CME,
Globex and Chicago Mercantile Exchange are trademarks of Chicago
Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and the Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of the
Board of Trade of the City of
Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and
ClearPort are registered trademarks of New York Mercantile
Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange,
Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
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SOURCE CME Group Inc.