Passing of Columbus A/S Annual General Meeting and subsequent constitution of the Board of Directors

Release no. 16/2017

At Columbus A/S’ Annual General Meeting held on 25 April 2017, all proposals set out in the agenda were adopted, including the following;

• The Board of Directors’ report was adopted.
• The Annual Report for 2016 was approved.
• The Board of Director’s proposal regarding distribution of profit was adopted, including payment of an ordinary dividend to the shareholders of DKK 0.125 per share of DKK 1.25 (nom), amounting to a total dividend of DKK 14,983,204
• Changing of the authorizations in Art. 5 in the Articles of Association, and amendments of Art. 5.1 in the Articles of Association accordingly were adopted.
• The General Meeting authorized the Board of Directors for a period of 18 months from the date of the General Meeting to acquire 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.
• Ib Kunøe, Jørgen Cadovius, Peter Skov Hansen and Sven Madsen were re-elected to the Board of Directors. 
• Deloitte Statsautoriseret Revisionspartnerselskab was reappointed as the Company’s auditor, and pursuant to the Articles of Association the Company has just one auditor.

Following the Annual General Meeting the Board of Directors convened and constituted itself with Ib Kunøe as Chairman of the Board and Jørgen Cadovius as Deputy Chairman of the Board.