ProSiebenSat.1 Annual General Meeting Appoints New Supervisory Board
Munich, June 26, 2014. At today's Annual
General Meeting, the shareholders of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG
elected a new Supervisory Board. Following the meeting, Dr. Werner
Brandt, CFO of SAP AG until June 30, 2014, was appointed as the new
Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Philipp Freise, Partner at
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Partners LLP (KKR), as Vice
Chairman. The Annual General Meeting also appointed the other
candidates to the controlling body by a large majority. The new
Supervisory Board of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG comprises the
following nine members:
Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Dr. Werner
Brandt, CFO, Human Resources and Labor Relations Director
of SAP AG, Walldorf/Germany
Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Philipp
Freise, Partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Partners LLP (KKR), London/UK (member of the Supervisory Board
since March 2007)
Lawrence A. Aidem, co-founder, President and
CEO of Iconic Entertainment Inc., New York/USA
Antoinette (Annet) P. Aris, Adjunct Professor
of Strategy at INSEAD, France
Adam Cahan, Senior Vice President Mobile and
Emerging Products at Yahoo Inc., Sunnyvale/USA
Stefan Dziarski, Principal at Permira
Beteiligungsberatung GmbH, Frankfurt am Main/Germany (member of the
Supervisory Board from June 2008 to June 2009 and since May
2012)
Dr. Marion Helmes, CFO and Speaker of the
Management Board of Celesio AG, Stuttgart/Germany (until July 15,
2014)
Erik Adrianus Hubertus Huggers, Senior Vice
President and President at Verizon Communications, New
York/USA
Prof. Dr. Harald Wiedmann, auditor, lawyer,
tax advisor at Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch Partnergesellschaft von
Rechtsanwälten, Steuerberatern, Berlin/Germany (member of the
Supervisory Board since March 2007)
In addition, the Annual General Meeting approved all further
proposed resolutions put to vote by the Executive Board and
Supervisory Board by a large majority.
The shareholders of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG resolved to
distribute a dividend of EUR 1.47 per common share for the 2013
financial year. This equates to a total payout of EUR 313.4 million
and a payout ratio of 82.5%, and is in line with the ProSiebenSat.1
dividend policy. The dividend will be paid out on June 27, 2014. In
addition, the Annual General Meeting granted discharge to the
Executive Board and Supervisory Board for the 2013 financial year
by a large majority (each more than 99% of the valid votes).
Since August 2013, ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG has had a single
share class, whereupon at this year's Annual General Meeting every
share carries a voting right for the first time. As a result of the
exit of the former major shareholders KKR and Permira in January
2014, 97.5% of the shares are currently held in free float. Around
350 shareholders, shareholder representatives and guests attended
the Annual General Meeting at the Event-Arena in the Munich
Olympiapark. The attendance rate was around 52%.
Contact:
Julian Geist
Corporate spokesman
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG
Medienallee 7
D-85774 Unterföhring
Phone +49 [89] 95 07-1151
Fax +49 [89] 95 07-91151
Email:
Julian.Geist@ProSiebenSat1.com