04/27/2010
7.00 p.m.
General Shareholders’ Meeting
Financial statements 2009 approved
Net profit: €217 million, +66%
Annual dividend: 15 eurocents per share
Final dividend: 6.5 eurocents per share
Authorization tu purchase company's own shares renewed
2010 Stock Options Plan approved and relevant implementing powers granted to the board.
The Ordinary and Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting of Mediolanum S.p.A was held today in Basiglio (Milan). The General Meeting approved the Annual Financial Statements for the year closed on December 31, 2009 and the distribution of an annual dividend of € 0.15 per share, € 0.085 of which paid as advance in November 2009; the final dividend of € 0.065 will be paid on May 27, 2010 (ex-dividend date May 24, 2010– coupon n. 20).
The General Meeting also:
- authorized the Board of Directors, following last years’ resolution, to purchase and sell the company’s own shares up to a maximum of 8,000,000 shares, equal to 1.09% of the share capital, within the limit of € 40 million, for a period of one year and however until the date when the General Shareholders’ Meeting is convened to approve the financial statements for the year 2010. This resolution also foresees the faculty for the Board of Directors to benefit from the accepted market practice relating to the sustain of the market liquidity.
- approved the establishment of the stock option plan benefiting the directors and managers of the Company and of its subsidiaries and the stock option plan benefiting the collaborators of the Company and of its subsidiaries, according to the guidelines set out in the Board of Directors’ report;
- granted to the Board of Directors all powers to implement the stock option plans included – in its Extraordinary resolution – the delegation pursuant to Article 2443 of the Italian Civil Code for the increase of the share capital servicing such plans.
Please note that the Officer in charge of preparing the accounting documents of Mediolanum S.p.A, Luigi Del Fabbro, has certified that, in compliance with the requirements of the second paragraph of section 154 bis of the Leg. Decree 58/1998, the financial information contained herein reflects the accounting entries, records and the books.
Basiglio - Milano 3 City, April 27, 2010
