04/21/2020
Baar, Switzerland
General information
| Date | Tuesday, April 21, 2020 |
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| Start | 4.00 p.m. |
Pursuant to the Ordinance of the Federal Council of March 13, 2020, and to protect the shareholders, the Board of Directors has resolved that it will not be possible for shareholders to attend this year's Annual General Meeting in person. Instead, we ask all shareholders to cast their votes through the independent proxy.
Gestützt auf die Verordnung des Bundesrates vom 13. März 2020 hat der Verwaltungsrat beschlossen, dass zu Ihrem Schutz die persönliche Teilnahme an der diesjährigen Generalversammlung nicht möglich sein wird. Stattdessen bitten wir Sie, sich durch den unabhängigen Stimmrechtsvertreter vertreten zu lassen.
Dividend payment
At the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Directors will be proposing a 12.2% increase in gross dividend to CHF 2.30 per registered share (2019: CHF 2.05).
Ex-Date: April 23, 2020
Payment Date: April 27, 2020
Voting
Attendance at the Annual General Meeting
Pursuant to the Ordinance of the Federal Council of March 13, 2020, and to protect the shareholders, the Board of Directors has resolved that it will not be possible for shareholders to attend this year's Annual General Meeting in person. Instead, we ask all shareholders to cast their votes through the independent proxy.
Entitlement to vote at the Annual General Meeting
Only shareholders entered in the share register as of April 16, 2020, are entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting. No further registrations of voting rights will be carried out in the period from April 17 to April 21, 2020. Shareholders who are registered with voting rights on April 17, 2020, but who sell their shares prior to the Annual General Meeting, will lose their shareholder rights in respect of the shares sold.
Shareholders entered in the share register up to and including April 14, 2020, as shareholders with voting rights will receive, together with the invitation to the Annual General Meeting, a reply card that they can use to issue a proxy. Shareholders whose registration in the share register with voting rights is made on or after April 15, 2020, and who wish to exercise their voting rights are asked to contact the share register of Sika AG. Shareholders whose shareholding changes between March 27, 2020, and April 16, 2020, will automatically receive a revised proxy.
Proxy and Instructions to the independent proxy
It is not possible to attend the Annual General Meeting in person. Shareholders are asked to be represented by the independent proxy Jost Windlin, attorney-at-law and notary, Zwicky, Windlin & Partner in Zug. Please send the reply card to the share register of Sika AG (Sika AG, c/o Devigus Shareholder Services, Birkenstrasse 47, 6343 Rotkreuz) by April 15, 2020, at the latest. Shareholders may cast their votes remotely by issuing electronic authorizations and instructions to the independent proxy at www.gvmanager.ch/sika. Shareholders may use the online proxy voting, or change any instructions they may have issued electronically, up to but no later than 11.59 p.m. on Monday, April 20, 2020.