Eniro Annual General Meeting on March 31, 2004

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Proposal for new Board of Directors, Board compensation and auditor proposal

As announced at the Annual General Meeting in 2003 and in the interim report for the third quarter, the Chairman of the Board, Lars Berg together with SEB Fonder (Björn Lind), K Capital Partners (Anup Khandelwal), Hermes Focus Asset Management Europe (Wouter Rosingh), Robur (Magnus Bakke) and Nordea Fonder (Peter Rudman) were responsible for the nominating work prior to the Annual General Meeting in 2004.   In brief, the group's proposal involves the following: 1. Number of Board members reduced from seven to six. No deputy members.  2. Re-election of all Board members (Lars Berg, Per Bystedt, Barbara Donoghue, Urban Jansson och Birgitta Klasén) except John Abrahamson, who has declined re-election. Lars Guldstrand resigned from the Board in conjunction with his resignation as President of Eniro AB. New election of Erik Engström, 39 years old, MBA and MSc Eng. Erik Engström is a partner at General Atlantic Partners in the US, where he is responsible for Media and Consumer Products and has extensive experience of the media industry. 3. The Board's fee be raised from SEK 1,500,000 to SEK 2,450,000 to be distributed as the Board decides, among the members elected by the AGM. However, no fee is to be paid to Board members who are employees of the company. The fee also includes remuneration for work in the different committees established by the Board. 4. Election of auditor of Eniro the registered auditing firm Öhrlings PriceWaterhouseCoopers AB, with Authorized Public Accountant Peter Bladh as Senior Auditor, for the period until the end of the Annual General Meeting in Eniro that is held during the fourth fiscal year after the auditor election. The company has been informed that shareholders representing about 24 percent of the shares and votes intend to vote in favor of the above proposals.   For more information: Lars Berg, Chairman of the Board and acting CEO, Tel +46 8 634 7001   Boel Sundvall, Vice President, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations. Tel. +46 8 634 7006, mobile +46 70 560 60 18, boel.sundvall@eniro.comwww.eniro.com