The Annual General Meeting of Tecnomen Corporation held on 12 March 2008 confirmed the financial statements and the consolidated financial statements for 2007 and discharged the Board of Directors and the President from liability for the financial year 2007. The Annual General Meeting resolved, in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors that a dividend of 0.07 euro per share be paid for the year 2007. The Annual General Meeting confirmed that the Board of Directors will consists of seven members. Lauri Ratia, Carl-Johan Numelin, Christer Sumelius, Timo Toivila and Johan Hammarén were re-elected as Board members. Harri Koponen and Hannu Turunen were elected as new Board members. The Board members were elected for a period of office expiring at the end of the first Annual General Meeting following the election. The Annual General Meeting resolved that the annual remunerations to the members of the Board of Directors be 50,000 euros for the Chairman, 30,000 euros for the Vice-Chairman and 23,000 euros for a member. In addition it was decided that a compensation of 800 euros for the Chairman and 500 euros for a member of the Board of Directors be paid for attendance at Board and Committee meetings. KPMG Oy Ab, Authorised Public Accountants, will continue as the Company's auditor, with Sixten Nyman, APA, as principal auditor, until the end of the following Annual General Meeting. Authorisation to acquire the Company's own shares The Annual General Meeting authorised the Board of Directors to decide on the acquisition of a maximum of 5,790,000 of the Company's own shares. Own shares shall be acquired with unrestricted shareholders' equity otherwise than in proportion to the holdings of the shareholders through public trading of the securities on OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki Oy at the market price of the shares in public trading at the time of the acquisition. Own shares can be acquired for the purpose of developing the capital structure of the Company, carrying out corporate acquisitions or other business arrangements to develop the business of the Company, financing capital expenditure, to be used as part of the Company's incentive schemes, or to be otherwise retained in the possession of the Company, disposed of or nullified in the extent and manner decided by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors will decide on other terms of the share acquisition. The authorisation shall replace the authorisation given by the Annual General Meeting on 14 March 2007 and will be valid for one year from the decision of the Annual General Meeting. Authorisation to issue shares and to grant special rights entitling to shares The Annual General Meeting authorised the Board of Directors to decide to issue and/or to convey a maximum of 17,800,000 new shares and/or the Company's own shares either against payment or for free. New shares may be issued and the Company's own shares may be conveyed to the Company's shareholders in proportion to their current shareholdings in the Company or waiving the shareholder's pre-emption right, through a directed share issue if the Company has a weighty financial reason to do so, such as the development of the capital structure of the Company, carrying out corporate acquisitions or other business arrangements to develop the business of the Company, financing capital expenditure or using the shares as part of the Company's incentive schemes in the extent and manner decided by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may also decide on a free share issue to the Company itself. The number of shares to be issued to the Company together with the shares repurchased to the Company on the basis of the repurchase authorisation shall be a maximum of one tenth (1/10) of all the Company's shares. The Board of Directors is authorized to grant the special rights referred to in Chapter 10, Section 1 of the Companies Act, which carry the right to receive, against payment, new shares of the Company or the Company's own shares held by the Company in such a manner that the subscription price of the shares is paid in cash or by using the subscriber's receivable to set off the subscription price. The subscription price of the new shares and the consideration payable for the Company's own shares may be recorded partially or fully in the invested non-restricted equity fund or in the share capital in the extent and manner decided by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors shall decide on other terms and conditions related to the share issues and granting of the special rights. The said authorisations shall replace the authorisations given by the Annual General Meeting on 14 March 2007 and will be valid for two years from the decision of the Annual General Meeting. Chairman of the Board of Directors and Board Committees In assembly meeting of the Board of Directors following the Annual General Meeting Lauri Ratia was re-elected as Chairman and Carl-Johan Numelin as Vice- Chairman of the Board of Directors. Lauri Ratia was elected as Chairman of the Audit Committee and Johan Hammarén and Harri Koponen as members. Carl-Johan Numelin was elected as Chairman of the Compensation and Nomination Committee and Christer Sumelius and Hannu Turunen as members. TECNOMEN CORPORATION Board of Directors FURTHER INFORMATION Mr Lauri Ratia, Chairman of the Board, tel. +358 50 2922 Mr Jarmo Niemi, President and CEO, tel. +358 9 8047 8799 DISTRIBUTION OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki Oy Main media www.tecnomen.com
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