Annual General Meeting resolves pass of dividend for 2017

Vienna, Austria, 25 April 2018 – Today, the 129th Annual General Meeting of Semperit AG Holding resolved that no dividend will be distributed for the financial year 2017 due to the negative results after tax and the continuation of the restructuring and transformation process. In 2016, the dividend was 0.70 EUR per share.

For all other agenda items, resolutions were also adopted according to the proposed resolutions.

Christoph Kollatz, Felix Fremerey and Christoph Trentini were newly elected to the Supervisory Board.

Walter Koppensteiner and Klaus Erkes were reelected as Supervisory Board members. 

In the constituent meeting of the Supervisory Board, Christoph Kollatz was appointed to succeed Veit Sorger as Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Stefan Fida was elected Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

About Semperit:

The publicly listed company Semperit AG Holding is an internationally-oriented group that develops, produces, and sells highly specialised rubber and plastic products in more than 100 countries for the medical and industrial sectors: examination and surgical gloves, hydraulic and industrial hoses, conveyor belts, escalator handrails, construction profiles, cable car rings, and products for railway superstructures. The headquarters of this traditional Austrian company, which was founded in 1824, are located in Vienna. The Semperit Group employs around 6,800 people worldwide, including around 3,700 in Asia and more than 800 in Austria (Vienna and production site in Wimpassing, Lower Austria). The group has 16 manufacturing facilities worldwide and numerous sales offices in Europe, Asia, Australia and America. In 2017, the group generated sales of EUR 874.2 million and an adjusted EBITDA (without one-off effects) of EUR 35.8 million.