The Annual General Meeting of Investment AB Latour (publ) on 2 May 2017 decided the following:
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to distribute a dividend of SEK 8.00 per share,
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to re-elect Anders Böös, Mariana Burenstam Linder, Anders G. Carlberg, Carl Douglas, Eric Douglas, Olle Nordström, Lena Olving and Jan Svensson to the board. Olle Nordström was elected chairman of the board,
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to appoint ÖhrlingsPricewaterhouseCoopers as the company’s accountant firm until the end of the Annual General Meeting 2018,
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to carry out a share split 4:1 in June 2017,
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to amend the company’s Articles of Association by increasing the limit of the minimum and the maximum number of shares in conjunction with the share split to a minimum of 320,000,000 shares and a maximum of 1,280,000,000 shares,
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to give the board, for the period until the next Annual General Meeting, authorization to decide on the repurchase of own shares up to a maximum of 10 percent of the share capital as well as the transfer of own shares as payment for acquisitions and/or to use these in connection with the company’s call option program,
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to authorize the board to offer senior officers the opportunity to acquire call options on market terms for a maximum of 200,000 B shares, corresponding to no more than 0.13 percent of the total number of company shares. The decision means that shares can be sold with a deviation from shareholders’ preferential rights according the conditions for the call options,
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to adopt principles for appointment of the Nomination Committee for Annual General Meetings in accordance with the guidelines proposed by the Nomination Committee.
The board's decision to use its repurchase authorization
The board decided at the following constitutional board meeting to use its repurchase authorization to buy back Latour shares. The shares may be acquired from 3 May 2017 until the next Annual General Meeting for a price within the registered price interval on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm at the time of acquisition.
Göteborg 2017-05-03
Investment AB Latour (publ)
Jan Svensson, CEO
For further information please contact CEO Jan Svensson or CFO Anders Mörck, tel. +46 31-89 17 90