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Nomination Committee's proposals regarding the Board and auditors of Intrum Justitia AB

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Nomination Committee's proposals regarding the Board and auditors of Intrum Justitia AB At the Annual General Meeting of Intrum Justitia AB on May 5, 2004, the Nomination Committee will present the following proposals for the election of the Board of Directors and the fees paid to Board Members. In addition, the Committee is proposing the election of new auditor. Election of Board of Directors: The Committee is proposing that the Board of Directors comprise nine members with no deputies. The following Board Members are proposed for reelection: Björn Fröling, Bo Ingemarson (Chairman), Reinhold Geijer, Bo Göransson, Maria Lilja, Dennis Punches and Christian Salamon. The Committee is also proposing the election, as a new Board Member, of Jim Richards, age 51, President and CEO of Attention, LLC, a subsidiary of West Corporation (NASDAQ: WSTC). Attention, LLC is an Accounts Receivable Management company founded by Richards. Richards is a member of the Executive Committee of West Corporation and a Committee member of the Healthcare Services Program of ACA International. He attended Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. As another new Board member, the Committee is proposing Gerard De Geer, age 54, Director Operations & Business Control at Industri Kapital since 2001. Mr. De Geer is also Chairman of Citylink AB and a Board member of Nobia AB, Consolis Oy Ab, Lindex AB, Elektrokoppar Holding AB, MacGREGOR International AB and Continental Bakeries BV. He was Vice President at A.T. Kearney in Stockholm for eight years and has spent 12 years in general management positions at companies such as Ovako, SKF Steel, Lesjöfors and Cameron Iron Works, Texas, USA. Mr. De Geer holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a MSc in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics. Deputy Board member Rolf Granström has declined reelection and former Deputy Board member Stefan Linder resigned at his own request on January 28, 2004. Remuneration for Board members: The proposed fee to be distributed by the Board to its members totals SEK 1,875,000. Election of Statutory Auditor: The extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders in June 2001 elected the accounting firm Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers AB as auditor of the company until the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting in 2005. The Nomination Committee is proposing that the present auditor be replaced, and that the accounting firm KPMG Bohlins AB be elected auditor of the company, with the authorized public accountant Carl Lindgren as auditor in charge, for the period until the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting held during the fourth financial year after the auditor's election, i.e. in 2008. The Nomination Committee consists of Bo Göransson (Parkerhouse Investment), Christian Salamon (Industri Kapital), Göran Espelund (Lannebo Fonder), Mats Gustafsson (SEB Fonder) and Bo Ingemarson (Chairman of the Board of Intrum Justitia AB) as convener. In total, the members of the Nomination Committee represent approximately 56 percent of the share capital and votes. For further information, please contact: Christian Salamon, Director, Industri Kapital, on behalf of the Nomination Committee Tel: +46 8 678 95 00 Anders Antonsson, Director of Communications Tel: +46 8 546 102 06, mobile: +46 70 336 7818 E-mail: a.antonsson@se.intrum.com Intrum Justitia is Europe's leading credit management services group. The group has revenues of SEK 2.9 billion and has about 2,900 employees in 21 European countries. Intrum Justitia's objective is to be a leading provider of CMS in Europe through excellence in local client care, ledger administration and debt collection and by measurably improving clients' cash flow and long-term profitability. The group offers efficient high quality management of commercial and consumer receivables in all phases in the CMS process. Intrum Justitia has a growth strategy and aims to take active part in consolidating its industry. Intrum Justitia is listed on Stockholmsbörsen, the Stockholm Exchange, ticker IJ. For more information, please visit www.intrum.com ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2004/04/01/20040401BIT20220/wkr0002.pdf PRApr01eng (PDF)

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