Please be informed that the Directors' report given by the Chairman at the Annual General Meeting was noted.
The report contained the information which was already sent to the Copenhagen Stock Exchange with our electronic annual report 2003 dated 22 March 2004 and the printed Annual Report for 2003 which was delivered on 2 April 2004.
The Annual Report for 2003 was approved.
No dividend to be declared as proposed by the Board of Directors was approved.
Director Mogens Petersen was up for election, but did not want to be re-elected and withdraws from the Board of Directors.
Lars Rasmussen, Group Director of Coloplast A/S, was elected as new member of the Board.
Attorney-at-law Peter-Ulrik Plesner was up for election and was re-elected.
Kaj Fauerskov Sørensen was up for election as deputy director and was re-elected.
The auditing company KPMG C. Jespersen Statsautoriseret Revisionsinteressentskab and Statsautoriseret Revisionsaktieselskab Grant Thornton were re-elected, as auditors.
The Board of Directors was authorised, in the period up to 15 October 2005, within the scope of totally 10% of the Group's share capital to let the Group acquire own shares at the market price valid at the acquisition time with a deviation of up to 10%.
During a subsequent board meeting the Board of Directors elected its officers with Director Bjarne Eriksen as Chairman and Director John Gath as Vice-Chairman.
Yours sincerely,
Brødrene Hartmann A/S
Bjarne Eriksen
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Asger Domino
President & CEO
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