Report from the Annual General Meeting of Beijer Electronics AB (publ)


The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Beijer Electronics for the financial year
2011 was held on April 25, 2012. A report on the most important resolutions of
the Meeting and its content follows.
The AGM approved the Income Statement and Balance Sheet and the Consolidated
Income Statement and Consolidated Balance Sheet presented to the Meeting. The
Board members and Chief Executive Officer were discharged from liability.

The
Meeting approved the Board of Directors’ proposed dividend of SEK 2.25 per share
for the financial year 2011. The record date for dividends was resolved as April
30, 2012. The dividend is scheduled for payment from Euroclear Sweden AB on May
4, 2012.

In his address to the Meeting, Beijer Electronics’ CEO Fredrik
Jönsson reported on the financial year 2011 and progress in the first quarter of
2012. The CEO concluded that 2011 was the group’s best year to date. Sales and
profits in the first quarter of 2012 were lower than the previous year, as
previously reported, but the CEO was also able to conclude that results were
better than original estimates, and that order intake had started to increase
again.

The Meeting also resolved:

  · To elect Anders Ilstam as Chairman
of the Meeting.
  · That the Board of Directors should consist of six members
without deputies.
  · That fees to the Chairman of the Board of SEK 450,000
would be payable and that fees to each of the other Board members would be SEK
200,000, apart from those employed by the company.
  · That fees to auditors
would be paid according to approved account.
  · To re-elect Stig-Arne Blom,
Bert Åke Eriksson, Ulrika Hagdahl, Maria Khorsand, Anders Ilstam and the
company’s CEO Fredrik Jönsson.
  · To re-elect Anders Ilstam as Chairman of the
Board.
  · To appoint authorized audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, Malmö, as
auditor for the period until the end of the AGM 2016.
  · That the current
method for appointing a nomination committee for the AGM 2013 and instructions
for the Nomination Committee shall also apply for 2012.
  · To adopt the Board
of Directors' proposed principles for remuneration to senior executives.
  · To
authorize the Board of Directors to decide to increase the company’s share
capital by a maximum of SEK 624,690 through the new issue of a maximum of
1,893,000 shares in the period until the next AGM.
  · To authorize the
company’s Chief Executive Officer to make minor adjustments to AGM resolutions
that may prove necessary in tandem with registering the resolution at the
Swedish Companies Registration Office.

The Board of Directors
Beijer
Electronics AB (publ)

Malmö, Sweden, April 25, 2012
For more information please contact:
President and CEO, Fredrik Jönsson, tel 46
(0)40 35 86 10, mobile 46 (0)705 17 16 26  
CFO, Anna Belfrage, tel 46 (0)40 35
86 53, mobile 46 (0)706 35 86 53
Beijer Electronics is a fast growing technology company with extensive
experience of industrial automation and robust data communication. The company
develops and markets competitive products and solutions with focus on the user.
Since its start-up in 1981, Beijer Electronics has evolved into a multinational
group with offices in 21 countries and sales of 1.4 billion SEK in 2011. Beijer
Electronics is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm’s Small Cap
list under the ticker BELE. www.beijerelectronics.se

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