Release no. 7/2015
According to Art. 8.3 of the Articles of Association, notice is hereby given of the Annual General Meeting of Columbus A/S to be held on:
Thursday 23 April 2015 at 10.00
at Columbus, Lautrupvang 6, 2750 Ballerup, with the following agenda:
- Board of Directors‘ report on the business of the Company during the past year.
- Presentation and approval of the annual report.
- Resolution on the appropriation of profit or covering of loss as recorded in the adopted Annual Report.
- Proposal from the Board of Directors that the general meeting authorizes the Board of Directors for a period of 18 months from the date of the General Meeting to acquire for the Company up to 10 per cent of the Company‘s share capital against payment which shall not deviate more than 10 per cent up or downwards from the latest listed price of the shares at NASDAQ Copenhagen prior to the acquisition.
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Election of members of the Board of Directors
- The Board of Directors proposes that Ib Kunøe, Jørgen Cadovius, Sven Madsen and Peter Skov Hansen be re-elected. Information about the managerial posts held by the members of the Board of Directors is available in the Annual Report 2014.
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Election of one or two state authorized public accountants as auditors.
- The Board of Directors proposes that Deloitte Statsautoriseret Revisionsaktieselskab (CVR no. 24 21 37 14) be re-elected.
- Any other business
Full wording of proposals
Re. item 2:
The Board of Directors recommends that the Annual Report be approved.
Re. item 3:
The Board of Directors proposes that the Annual General Meeting approves the Board of Directors’ proposal for the allocation of profit as stated in the Annual Report for 2014, including
distribution of an ordinary dividend to shareholders of DKK 0.125 per share of DKK 1.25 (nom.), corresponding to total dividends of DKK 13,783,062.
Re. item 4:
The Board of Directors recommends that the proposal be adopted.
Re. item 5:
The Board of Directors proposes election of the following members to the Board of Directors:
Ib Kunøe
Jørgen Cadovius
Sven Madsen
Peter Skov Hansen
Re. item 6:
The Board of Directors recommends re-election of the current auditor.
Adoption requirements
For adoption of the proposals under the items 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 on the agenda simple majority is required.
Registration date
The date of registration is Thursday 16 April 2015, at 23.59 CET.
Only shareholders who possess shares in the Company at the expiration of the registration date are entitled to participate and vote at the Annual General Meeting. On expiry of the date of registration, the shares held by each of the Company‘s shareholders on the date of registration date is determined on the basis of the shares registered in the register of shareholders and duly evidenced notifications to the Company of share acquisitions not yet entered in the register of shareholders, but received by the Company before expiry of the date of registration.
Participation is furthermore conditional on the shareholder‘s punctual requisitioning of an admission card as described below.
Procedure for participating in and voting at the Companys Annual General Meeting
Requisition of admission cards:
Admission cards can be ordered electronically at the Company’s website www.columbusglobal.com > Investor, by submission of registration form to Computershare A/S, Kongevejen 418, 2840 Holte (or by fax 4546 0998), by written request to the Company’s office at Lautrupvang 6, 2750 Ballerup (or by fax 7020 0701) or by e-mail to cgr@columbusglobal.com. Registration must reach Computershare A/S or the Company no later than 20 April 2015 at 23.59 CET.
Proxies:
A proxy form can be downloaded and printed from www.columbusit.com > Investor, and sent completed and signed to Computershare A/S, Kongevejen 418, 2840 Holte (or by fax 4546 0998). The proxy must reach Computershare A/S no later than 22 April 2015 at 23.59 CET.
Postal voting:
Shareholders can also vote in writing. A postal voting form can be downloaded and printed from www.columbusit.com > Investor, and sent completed and signed to Computershare A/S,
Kongevejen 418, 2840 Holte (or by fax 4546 0998). The proxy must reach Computershare A/S no later than 22 April 2015 at 12.00pm CET. Received postal votes cannot be withdrawn.
Further information
Questions from shareholder regarding the agenda must be submitted in written form to the Company.
The share issuing bank is Nordea A/S, through which shareholders may exercise their financial rights.
Information from the Company
No later than 1 April 2015 the following information will be available to the shareholders at the Company’s website www.columbusit.com > Investor:
• This agenda including the full wording of proposals for the Annual General Meeting
• The total number of shares and entitled voters at the time of notice to convene the Annual General Meeting
• The documents which will be presented at the Annual General Meeting, including the audited Annual Report 2014
• The forms which must be used when voting by proxy or postal votes
By the notice to convene annual general meeting Columbus A/S has registered a share capital of nominal DKK 137,830,615 corresponding to 110,264,492 shares of nominal DKK 1.25.
Each share of nominal DKK 1.25 provides 1 vote.
Ballerup, 24 March 2015
The Board of Directors of Columbus A/S
Translation: In the event of any inconsistency between this document and the Danish language version, the Danish language version shall be the governing version.
