PARMALAT SPA The 2014 financial statements are approved.
The Shareholders' Meeting approves the distribution of a dividend of 0.016 euros on each eligible common share.
A motion to increase the number of Directors from 7 to 8 and elect a new Director is approved.
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The Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting of Parmalat S.p.A., convened today on a single calling at the STARHOTELS ROSA GRAND, 3 Piazza Fontana, in Milan, approved the financial statements for the 2014 financial year, which ended with a net profit of 61.0 million euros (at the consolidated level, the Group net profit was 203.1 million euros) and agreed to distribute a dividend of 0.016 euros on each eligible common share. The dividend will payable as of May 20, 2015, with May 18,
2015 as the coupon presentation date (to the shares registered in the books of accounts on May
19, 2015 - record date).
The Shareholders' Meeting approved a resolution to increase the number of Directors from 7 to 8 and elect a new Director, in the person of Yvon Guérin, currently the Company's General Manager, as recommended by the Board of Directors in its Explanatory Report to the Shareholders' Meeting. The purpose of this election is to enable the Board of Directors to appoint Mr. Guérin to the post of Chief Executive Officer, with the corresponding powers.
Yvon Guérin's term of office will end concurrently with the expiration of the mandate of the Board of Directors, i.e., with the Shareholders' Meeting convened to approve the financial statements at December 31, 2016.
The composition of the Board of Directors is as follows:
1) Gabriella Chersicla, Chairperson, independent Director;
2) Patrice Gassenbach;
3) Laura Gualtieri, independent Director;
4) Yvon Guérin, Director and General Manager;
5) Paolo Francesco Lazzati, independent Director;
6) Umberto Mosetti, independent Director elected from the minority slate;
7) Riccardo Perotta, independent Director;
8) Antonio Sala.
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Exhaustive information about Mr. Guérin's personal and professional characteristics is available on the Company website: http://www.parmalat.com/en/about_us/management/.
Please note that, based on available information, as of the date of this press release Mr. Guérin did not own any Company shares.
Lastly, the Company announces that, pursuant to Article 2, Section Five, of the Warrant
Regulations, the exercise of the warrants will resume on May 19, 2015. Milan, April 16, 2015
Parmalat S.p.A.
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