TrygVesta's annual general meeting (AGM) was held today. At the AGM the
shareholders adopted the report of the Group's activities in the financial year
2008.
The annual meeting also approved the following items:
• TrygVesta's audited Annual Report 2008, including the resolution on discharge
of the Executive Management and the Supervisory Board.
• Resolution to distribution of profits in accordance with the approved Annual
Report, subject to payment of a dividend of DKK 410m or DKK 6.50 per share.
• Authorisation to the Supervisory Board, in the period up to the next annual
general meeting, to allow the Group to purchase own shares up to 10% of the
share
capital at the share price prevailing on the purchase date, with a deviation
of up to
10%, cf. section 48 of the Danish Companies Act.
• Resolution of the proposal from the Supervisory Board to reduce the Group's
share
capital by DKK 101,710,675. After the implementation of share capital
reduction, the
Group's share capital will amount to DKK 1,598,289,325.
• Resolution of the proposal from the Supervisory Board to amend the Group's
articles of association reference article 19 and article 5(2). This implies
change of
name of majority shareholder from Tryg i Danmark smba to TryghedsGruppen smba,
insertion of a requirement to set up an audit committee and change of name
and
address of registrar to I-nvestor Danmark A/S, Kongevejen 418, 2840 Holte,
Denmark.
The Articles of Associations can be downloaded at www.trygvesta.com/Investor
8 members of the Supervisory Board were re-elected.
The following were re-elected among the Supervisory Board of TryghedsGruppen
smba:
Mikael Olufsen (Chairman)
Per Skov
Jørn Wendel Andersen
John R. Frederiksen
And the following were re-elected as independent of TryghedsGruppen smba;
Bodil Nyboe Andersen (deputy chairman)
Paul Bergqvist
Christian Brinch
Niels Jørgen Christiansen
According to article 19 in the articles of association the Chairman of
TryghedsGruppen smba is Chairman of the Group.
Employees have elected the following members to the Supervisory Board:
Birthe Petersen
Berit Torm
Peter Mollerup
Rune Torgeir Joensen
• Deloitte Statsautoriseret Revisionsaktieselskab was re-elected as the Group's
public accountant.
