DECISIONS OF RAPALA VMC CORPORATION’S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ON 23 MARCH 2022
March 23 2022 - 11:00AM
DECISIONS OF RAPALA VMC CORPORATION’S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ON 23
MARCH 2022
Rapala VMC Corporation Stock Exchange ReleaseMarch 23, 2022 at
5:00 p.m.
DECISIONS OF RAPALA VMC CORPORATION’S ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING ON 23 MARCH 2022
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Rapala VMC
Corporation has on 23 March 2022 adopted the financial statement of
the financial year 2021 and discharged the members of the Board of
Directors and the CEO from the liability for the financial year
that ended on 31 December 2021. The AGM adopted the Remuneration
Report for governing bodies.
The AGM approved the Board of Director’s
proposal that a dividend of EUR 0.15 per share is paid based on the
adopted balance sheet for the financial year 2021. The dividend
shall be paid to shareholders who on the dividend record date 25
March 2022 are registered in the company’s shareholders’ register
held by Euroclear Finland Oy. The dividend shall be paid on 1 April
2022.
The AGM approved that the Board of Directors
consists of six members. Jorma Kasslin, Marc Speeckaert, Emmanuel
Viellard, Julia Aubertin, Louis d’Alançon and Vesa Luhtanen were
re-elected as members of the Board of Directors. The AGM resolved
that the annual fee paid to each Board member is EUR 30,000 and EUR
80,000 to the Chairman of the Board. Board members are paid EUR
1,000 per meeting for attendance at Board and its committee
meetings.
Ernst & Young Oy, Authorized Public
Accountant Firm, was appointed as Rapala VMC Corporation’s
auditor.
The AGM authorised the Board of Directors to
resolve on one or several share issues and the issues of special
rights entitling to shares as defined in Chapter 10, Section 1 of
the Companies Act, against or without consideration, as follows. By
virtue of the authorisation the Board is entitled to issue up to
3,900,000 shares corresponding at present to 10.00 per cent of all
current shares. The authorization can also be used for incentive
arrangements for the management and key persons, however, not more
than 900,000 shares in total. The Board would resolve on all terms
and conditions of share issues and the issues of special rights.
The authorization covers both the issuance of new shares and the
transfer of own shares. A share issue or the issue of special
rights may be executed in deviation of the shareholders pre-emptive
rights to subscribe for new shares. This authorization shall be
effective until 23 September 2023. This authorisation cancels the
authorisation to resolve on share issues and issues of special
rights entitling to shares granted to the Board of Directors by the
Annual General Meeting on 25 March 2021.
The AGM authorised the Board of Directors to
resolve to repurchase a maximum of 2,000,000 own shares by using
funds in the unrestricted equity. The proposed number of shares
corresponds to approximately 5.13 per cent of the company’s
registered total number of shares at the time of the proposal. The
shares may be repurchased for developing the company’s capital
structure, for financing or carrying out potential corporate
acquisitions or other business arrangements, to be used as a part
of the company’s remuneration or incentive plan or to be otherwise
transferred further, retained by the company as treasury shares, or
cancelled, for example. The shares may be repurchased otherwise
than in proposition to the existing shareholdings of the company as
directed repurchases at the market price of the shares quoted on
the trading venues where the company’s shares are traded or at the
price otherwise established on the market at the time of the
repurchase. The Board of Directors shall resolve on all other
matters related to the repurchase of the company’s own shares,
including on how the shares will be repurchased. The authorization
is in force for 18 months from the close of the Annual General
Meeting i.e. until 23 September 2023. This authorisation cancels
the authorisation to repurchase the company’s shares granted to the
Board of Directors by the Annual General Meeting on 25 March
2021.
Helsinki, 23 March 2022
RAPALA VMC CORPORATIONNicolas Cederström WarchalowskiPresident
and Chief Executive Officer
For further information, please contact:General Counsel, Olli
Aho, tel. +358 9 7562 540
Distribution: Nasdaq Helsinki and main media
About Rapala VMC CorporationRapala group is the world’s
leading fishing tackle company and the global market leader in
fishing lures, treble hooks and fishing related knives and tools.
Group has a strong global position also in other fishing categories
and Rapala’s distribution network is largest in the fishing
industry. The main manufacturing facilities are in Finland, France,
Estonia, Indonesia and the UK. Rapala group’s brand portfolio
includes the leading brand in the industry, Rapala, and other
global brands like VMC, Sufix, Storm, Blue Fox, Luhr Jensen,
Williamson, Dynamite Baits, Mora Ice, StrikeMaster,
Marttiini, Peltonen and 13 Fishing outside of the USA as well
as Okuma in Europe and Russia. Group, with net sales of EUR 294
million in 2021, employs some 1 800 people in approximately 40
countries. Rapala VMC Corporation’s share is listed and traded on
the Nasdaq Helsinki stock exchange since 1998.
- Rapala VMC Corporation, Stock Exchange Release, March 23,
2022
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