Company announcement 3/2016 - Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S: Result of the Extraordinary General Meeting Held on 10 Februar...
February 10 2016 - 1:16AM
COMPANY
ANNOUNCEMENT
No. 3/2016
Copenhagen, 10 February 2016
Result of the Extraordinary
General Meeting
Held on 10 February 2016
On 10 February 2016 at 7:00 am CET, an
extraordinary general meeting of Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S
("STG") was held.
As described in the offering circular, which was
published by STG on 28 January 2016 (the "Offering Circular"), an
extraordinary general meeting has been held at which Søren
Bjerre-Nielsen, Dianne Neal Blixt and Luc Missorten were elected by
the general meeting as new members of the Board of Directors.
Anders Obel, Lars Dahlgren and Fredrik Lagercrantz resigned as
members of the Board of Directors in connection with the general
meeting as also described in the Offering Circular.
Following the general meeting, the Board of
Directors of STG consists of Jørgen Tandrup (Chairman), Conny
Karlsson (Deputy Chairman), Søren Bjerre-Nielsen, Marlene Forsell,
Tommy Pedersen, Dianne Neal Blixt, Luc Missorten and Henning Kruse
Petersen elected by the general meeting and Kurt Asmussen,
Charlotte Nielsen, Hermod Hvid and Hanne Malling as employee
representatives.
Conny Karlsson, Søren Bjerre-Nielsen, Marlene Forsell, Tommy
Pedersen, Dianne Neal Blixt, Luc Missorten and Henning Kruse
Petersen will be regarded as independent members of the Board of
Directors. Jørgen Tandrup, Kurt Asmussen, Charlotte Nielsen, Hermod
Hvid and Hanne Malling will not be regarded as independent members
of the Board of Directors.
Moreover, the Board of Directors has decided that
the Audit Committee will consist of Søren Bjerre-Nielsen (as
chairman of the Audit Committee), Marlene Forsell and Dianne Neal
Blixt.
The Board of Directors have further decided that
the Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee will consist of
Jørgen Tandrup (as chairman of both committees), Conny Karlsson and
Henning Kruse Petersen.
For more information on the members of STG's Board
of Directors, reference is made to the Offering Circular.
For further information, please
contact:
For media enquiries:
Kaspar Bach Habersaat, Director of Group Communications, phone: +45
7220 7152 or kaspar.bach@st-group.com.
For investor enquiries:
Torben Sand, Head of Investor Relations, phone: +45 7220 7126 or
torben.sand@st-group.com.
About
Scandinavian Tobacco Group
Scandinavian Tobacco
Group A/S with its subsidiaries (the "Group")
is a world leading producer of cigars and traditional pipe tobacco.
The Group also produces fine-cut tobacco and sells tobacco-related
accessories. The Group produces and sells 3 billion cigars and
5,000 tonnes of pipe and fine-cut tobacco annually. Scandinavian
Tobacco Group believes it is the only company globally with a core
strategic focus on production and distribution in all of these
tobacco categories.
Scandinavian Tobacco
Group holds market-leading positions in the machine-made cigar
market in Europe, the handmade cigar market in the US, the online
and catalogue retail sales of cigars in the US, the traditional
pipe tobacco market globally and in selected fine-cut tobacco
markets.
Scandinavian Tobacco
Group has a diversified portfolio of more than 200 brands providing
a complementary range of established global brands and local
champions. In the cigar segment, the brand portfolio
comprises Café Crème, La Paz, Macanudo, CAO, Partagas (US) and
Cohiba (US). Pipe tobacco brands include Captain Black, Erinmore,
Borkum Riff and W.Ø. Larsen, while leading fine-cut tobacco brands
include Bugler, Break, Escort, Bali Shag and Tiedemanns.
As at 31 December 2015,
the Group employed approx. 8,100 people in the Dominican Republic,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Indonesia, Europe, New Zealand, Australia,
Canada and the US.
For more information
please visit www.st-group.com.
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responsible for the content, accuracy and originality of the
information contained therein.
Source: Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S via
Globenewswire
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