Regulatory News:
Today’s Annual General Meeting of TeliaSonera AB (publ) (STO:TLSN)
(LSE:TEE) (HEX:TLS1V) (Nasdaq:TLSN) decided the following:
The Annual General Meeting approved the income statement and balance
sheet for 2010.
The Annual General Meeting decided upon a dividend to shareholders of
SEK 2.75 per share, and April 11, 2011 was decided as the record date
for the dividend. With this record date, it is estimated that the
dividend will be sent out from Euroclear on April 14, 2011.
The Annual General Meeting discharged the Board of Directors and the CEO
from liability for the financial year 2010.
Ordinary members of the Board Maija-Liisa Friman, Ingrid Jonasson Blank,
Conny Karlsson, Anders Narvinger, Timo Peltola, Lars Renström, Jon
Risfelt and Per-Arne Sandström were reelected. Anders Narvinger was
elected as Chairman of the Board.
The following Board remuneration was approved for the Board of
Directors: to the Chairman, SEK 1,100,000 (1,000,000) and to the other
board members, elected by the Annual General Meeting, SEK 450,000
(425,000) each. In addition, remuneration to the Chairman of the Board's
Audit Committee of SEK 150,000 (unchanged) and of SEK 100,000
(unchanged) to each of the other members of the Audit Committee, and
remuneration to the Chairman of the Board’s Remuneration Committee with
SEK 55,000 (40,000) and of SEK 35,000 (20,000) to each of the other
members of the Remuneration Committee, were approved.
It was decided that the number of auditors shall be one and
PricewaterhouseCoopers AB was re-elected until the end of the Annual
General Meeting 2012. Remuneration to the auditors shall be paid as per
invoice.
Kristina Ekengren (Swedish State), Kari Järvinen (Finnish State via
Solidium Oy), Thomas Eriksson (Swedbank Robur funds), Per Frennberg
(Alecta) together with
Anders Narvinger (Chairman of the Board of Directors) were elected to
the Nomination Committee.
The Annual General Meeting decided to approve the proposal from the
Board of Directors regarding guidelines for remuneration to the
executive management.
The Annual General Meeting authorized the Board of Directors to carry
out acquisitions of own shares at one or more occasions prior to the
Annual General Meeting 2012 on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm and/or Nasdaq OMX
Helsinki or in accordance with an offer to acquire shares directed to
all shareholders, whereby a maximum of 10 percent of all shares in the
company may be acquired.
The Annual General Meeting decided to implement a long-term incentive
program 2011/2014 and hedging arrangements for the program. The program
may include approximately 100 key persons.
The Annual General Meeting decided to approve the proposal from the
Board of Directors regarding reduction of the share capital by maximum
SEK 513,195,107.20 by cancellation of maximum 160,373,471 shares that
have been acquired by the company within the repurchase program,
executed during the spring, 2011.
TeliaSonera AB discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the
Swedish Securities Markets Act and/or the Swedish Financial Instrument
Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication at 6.30 p.m.
CET on April 6, 2011.
TeliaSonera provides network access and telecommunication services in
the Nordic and Baltic countries, the emerging markets of Eurasia,
including Russia and Turkey, and in Spain. TeliaSonera helps people and
companies communicate in an easy, efficient and environmentally friendly
way. Our ambition is to be number one or two in all our markets,
providing the best customer experience, high quality networks and cost
efficient operations. TeliaSonera is also the leading European wholesale
provider with a wholly-owned international carrier network. In 2010, net
sales amounted to SEK 107 billion, EBITDA to SEK 37.7 billion and
earnings per share to SEK 4.73. The TeliaSonera share is listed on
NASDAQ OMX Stockholm and NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. Read more at www.teliasonera.com (http://www.teliasonera.com)
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements made in the press release
relating to future status or circumstances, including future performance
and other trend projections are forward-looking statements. By their
nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because
they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the
future. There can be no assurance that actual results will not differ
materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking
statements due to many factors, many of which are outside the control of
TeliaSonera.
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