04/24/2009
11.00 a.m
General Shareholders’ Meeting
Financial statements 2008 approved
Net profit: €23.7 million, -89%
Annual dividend: 15 eurocents per share
Final dividend: 6.5 eurocents per share
Board of Statutory Auditors integrated
Authorization to purchase Company's own Shares Renewed
Earlier termination of the stock options plan approved
Suspended director re-instated
The Ordinary and Extraordinary 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, 2008 and the distribution of an annual dividend of € 0.15 per share, € 0.085 of which paid as advance in November 2008; the final dividend of € 0.065 will be paid on May 21, 2009 (ex-dividend date May 18, 2009– coupon n. 18).
The General Meeting also:
- resolved to integrate the Board of Statutory Auditors by appointing a standing member and an alternate member, respectively Mr. Francesco Vittadini and Mr. Antonio Marchesi. The Board members are therefore the following:
Ezio Maria Simonelli – Chairman of the Board of Auditors; Francesco Vittadini – Standing Auditor; Riccardo Perrotta – Standing Auditor; Antonio Marchesi – Alternate Auditor; Ferdinando Gatti – Alternate Auditor.
- following last years’ 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 1.09% of the share capital, within the limit of € 40 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 2009. This resolution also foresees the faculty for the Board of Directors to benefit from the accepted market practice relating to the sustain of the market liquidity.
- resolved to proceed to an earlier termination of the stock options plan approved in 2005 and partially amended the already effected.
- resolved not to revoke the Director Mr. Paolo Sciumé, whose suspension had been declared by the Board of Directors of February 16, 2009, and therefore re-instated him in his full functions effective today, pursuant to the applicable laws disciplining the honorability requisites of the company officers (Ministerial Decree n. 516/1998) .
Please note that the Officer in charge of preparing the accounting documents of Mediolanum S.p.A, Luigi Del Fabbro, has certified that, in compliance with the requirements of the second paragraph of section
154 bis of the Leg. Decree 58/1998, the financial information contained herein reflects the accounting entries, records and the books.
Basiglio - Milano 3 City, April 23, 2009
