04/22/2008
19.30 p.m
Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting
Financial statements 2007 approved
Net profit: €212 million, -5%
Annual dividend: 20 eurocents per share
Final dividend: 11.5 EUROCENTS PER SHARE
Board of Director and Board of Statutory Auditors appointed
Authorization to purchase Company's own Shares Renewed
The Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting of Mediolanum S.p.A was held today in Basiglio (Milan). The General Meeting approved the Annual Financial Statements for the year closed on December 31, 2007 and the distribution of an annual dividend of € 0.20 per share, € 0.085 of which paid as advance in November 2007; the final dividend of € 0.115 will be paid on May 22, 2008 (ex-dividend date May 19, 2008 – coupon n. 16).
The General Meeting also:
- resolved to appoint the Board of Director as follows:
Roberto Ruozi – Chairman; Ennio Doris; Alfredo Messina; Edoardo Lombardi; Luigi Berlusconi; Pasquale Cannatelli; Maurizio Carfagna; Massimo Antonio Doris; Bruno Ermolli; Paolo Sciumè; Angelo Renoldi; Mario Molteni; Danilo Pellegrino; Antonio Zunino
Directors Mr. Ruozi and Mr. Molteni have declared to fulfil the requirements of Independence in accordance with art. 148, para. 3, TUF and Director Mr. Angelo Renoldi has declared to fulfil the requirements of independence as provided by the Corporate Governance Code of companies listed on regulated markets organised and managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A..
The Meeting of the Board of Directors, called on April 23, 2008, will proceed to grant the suitable offices and powers.
- resolved to appoint the Board of Statutory Auditors as follows:
Ezio Maria Simonelli – Chairman of the Board of Auditors; Maurizio Dallocchio – Standing Auditor; Riccardo Perotta – Standing Auditor; Francesco Vittadini – Alternate Auditor; Ferdinando Gatti – Alternate Auditor.
The Board of Director and the Board of Statutory Auditors have been appointed on the basis of the lists of nominees filed by the parties to the Shareholders’ Agreement (Fininvest/Gruppo Doris)
- following last year’s resolution, authorized the Board of Directors to purchase and sell the company’s own shares up to a maximum of 8,000,000 shares, equal to 1.10% of the share capital, within the limit of € 80 million, for a period of one year and however until the date when the General Shareholders’ Meeting is convened to approve the financial statements for the year 2008.
Please note that the Officer in charge of preparing Mediolanum S.p.A accounting documents, Luigi Del Fabbro, has certified that, in compliance with the requirements of the second paragraph of section 154 bis of the Consolidated Finance Act, the financial information contained herein reflects the accounting entries, records and the books.
Basiglio - Milano 3 City, April 22, 2008
