03/26/2024
Baar, Switzerland
General information
| Date | Tuesday, March 26, 2024 |
| Doors open | 3.00 p.m. CET |
| Start | 4.00 p.m. CET |
| Location | Waldmannhalle, Neugasse 55, 6340 Baar, Switzerland Important note: We would like to point out that there is only a limited number of parking spaces. For this reason, we kindly ask you to travel by public transport if possible. A bus transfer from Baar train station is available. |
The Annual General Meeting will be broadcast on the Sika website and shareholders will be given the opportunity to ask questions live during the Annual General Meeting via an online platform.
Dividend payment
At the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Directors will be proposing a 3.1% increase in gross dividend to CHF 3.30 per registered share (2023: CHF 3.20). Half of the gross dividend, i.e. CHF 1.65, will be distributed from the reserves from capital contribution and the other half, i.e. CHF 1.65, from the retained earnings. The portion of the gross dividend from the reserves from capital contribution is paid out without deduction of the Swiss withholding tax and is exempt from the income tax for individual investors resident in Switzerland who hold the shares as personal assets. After payment of the Swiss withholding tax of 35 % on the portion of the gross dividend from the retained earnings, a net dividend in the amount of CHF 2.72 per share will be paid out. The net dividend will be paid as from April 3, 2024. The appropriation of the retained earnings and the distribution of the dividend are based on the annual financial statements audited by the auditors and to be approved under agenda item 1.
Ex-Date: March 28, 2024
Record-Date: April 2, 2024
Payment Date: April 3, 2024
Voting
Attendance at the Annual General Meeting
Only shareholders entered in the share register as at March 21, 2024 are entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting. Shareholders have the option of voting in person, through a proxy, or remotely by issuing authorizations and instructions to the independent proxy.
Shareholders entered in the share register up to and including March 18, 2024 as shareholders with voting rights will receive, together with the invitation to the Annual General Meeting, a reply card that they can use to order the admission card or to issue a proxy. Further, they will receive information on e-Voting together with the individual code to access the voting website www.gvmanager-live.ch/sika. Shareholders are requested to send the reply card to the share register of Sika AG (Sika AG, c/o Devigus Shareholder Services, Birkenstrasse 47, 6343 Rotkreuz) by March 21, 2024 at the latest. Shareholders whose registration in the share register with voting rights is made on or after March 19, 2024 and who wish to attend the Annual General Meeting are asked to contact the share register of Sika AG.
No further registrations of voting rights will be carried out in the period from March 22, 2024 to March 26, 2024. Shareholders who are registered with voting rights as at March 22, 2024, but who sell their shares prior to the Annual General Meeting, will lose their shareholder rights in respect of the shares sold. Shareholders whose shareholding changes between March 22, 2024 and March 26, 2024 and who have already received an admission card will not receive a new admission card but a voting device with their current shareholding at the admission counter of the Annual General Meeting. Proxies will be changed automatically.
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Representation by proxy at the Annual General Meeting
Shareholders not attending the Annual General Meeting in person may be represented by a third party. In order to grant a proxy to a representative, the shareholder must fully specify the relevant person on the reply card. Shareholders are requested to send the reply card to the share register of Sika AG (Sika AG, c/o Devigus Shareholder Services, Birkenstrasse 47, 6343 Rotkreuz) by March 21, 2024 at the latest. The admission card will then be sent to the proxy. The Board of Directors shall decide on the recognition of the proxy.
Remote electronic voting by issuing authorizations and instructions to the independent proxy
Shareholders may cast their votes remotely by issuing electronic authorizations and instructions to the independent proxy at www.gvmanager-live.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 Sunday, March 24, 2024.
Live stream and questions of shareholders
The Annual General Meeting will be broadcast live on the Sika website (www.sika.com/live). In addition, shareholders will be given the opportunity to ask questions live during the Annual General Meeting via an online platform. Shareholders wishing to ask questions via the online platform are requested to complete the registration form available with the individual access code under the following link up to but no later than 11.59 p.m. on Sunday March 24, 2024: www.gvmanagerlive.ch/sika. Further information on the right to submit questions, including the authentication process and the use of the data provided by the shareholder can be found under www.sika.com/speaker.
Shareholders are explicitly made aware that it is not permitted to exercise shareholder rights through the online platform www.gvmanager-live.ch/sika and that the online participation opportunity does not constitute a Virtual Annual General Meeting within the meaning of art. 701d CO. Shareholder rights can exclusively be exercised by attending the Annual General Meeting in person or through granting a proxy to a third party or the independent proxy.
Shareholders are also made aware that the Board of Directors expressly reserves the right to take position on the questions in aggregated or individual form or to limit the speech time.