Annual General Meeting of Shareholders 2017 of Bossard Holding AG

In addition, the AGM approved the motion of the Board of Directors to increase the dividend by 10 percent. Accordingly, from the record net income of CHF 62.4 million (previous year: CHF 54.5 million) a gross dividend of CHF 3.30 will be paid out for the registered A shares and CHF 0.66 for the registered B shares. Bossard registered A shares will be traded ex-dividend from April 12, 2017. The dividend payment will be made on April 18, 2017.

The annual general meeting of shareholders also approved PricewaterhouseCoopers AG, Zurich, as auditors for the 2017 fiscal year. 

A total of 762 shareholders attended the annual general meeting of shareholders: they represented 10,305,092 of a total of 13,400,000 possible votes.