NCC's Annual General Meeting on April 7 NCC's Annual General Meeting resolved on an ordinary cash dividend of SEK 4.00 (11.00) per share. The Meeting re-elected the members of the Board and the Nomination Committee. The Meeting also resolved on unchanged director fees and that the guiding principles for determining the salary and other remuneration of the President and other members of the company's management, as resolved at the preceding year's Annual General Meeting, will continue to apply. NCC's Annual General Meeting approved the Board of Directors' proposal to pay an ordinary cash dividend of SEK 4.00 (11.00) per share. The record date for receipt of dividends was set at tuesday April 14, 2009. Accordingly, the dividends are scheduled to be sent from Euroclear Sweden AB (formerly VPC) on Friday, April 17. In accordance with a motion from the Nomination Committee, the Meeting re-elected Antonia Ax:son Johnson, Tomas Billing, Ulf Holmlund, Ulla Litzén, Fredrik Lundberg and Marcus Storch to the Board. Tomas Billing was elected Chairman of the Board. It was resolved that director fees would be paid in an unchanged amount totaling SEK 2,535,000, of which SEK 575,000 will be paid to the Chairman of the Board, SEK 460,000 to the Deputy Chairman of the Board and SEK 375,000 to each other member elected by the Annual General Meeting. The Meeting re-elected Viveca Ax:son Johnson (chairman), Ulf Lundahl and Mats Lagerqvist as members of the Nomination Committee. It was resolved that the guiding principles for determining the salary and other remuneration of the President and other members of the company's management, as adopted at the 2008 Annual General Meeting, will continue to apply. The Meeting authorized the Board, prior to the next Annual General Meeting, to repurchase a maximum of 10 percent of the total number of NCC shares. The shares are to be purchased on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm at prices within the registered span of share prices at each particular purchase occasion. The reason for the repurchases is to provide the Board with an opportunity to adjust the Company's capital structure. At the statutory meeting of the Board of Directors held directly after the Annual General Meeting, Fredrik Lundberg was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board. For further information, please contact: Annica Gerentz, Senior Vice President Corporate Communications, tel. +46 (0)70-398 42 09. Johan Bergman, Investor Relations Manager, tel. +46 (0)8-585 523 53, +46 (0)70-354 80 35 Lovisa Lagerström Lantz, Acting Press Relations Manager, +46 (0)8 585 523 46, +46 (0)70 592 45 46 All of NCC's press releases are available on www.ncc.se. NCC is one of the leading construction and property development companies in the Nordic region. NCC had in 2008 sales of fully SEK 57 billion, with 20,000 employees.
NCC's Annual General Meeting on April 7
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