Lundbergs’ Annual General Meeting

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Lundbergs’ Annual General Meeting on Thursday adopted the Board of Directors’ motion that a dividend of SEK 9.00 per share be paid for the 2007 fiscal year, an increase compared with the SEK 8.50 paid for the preceding year. The record date for dividends is April 15, 2008 and the dividend payment date is April 18, 2008.

Gunilla Berg, Lennart Bylock, Tom Hedelius, Fredrik Lundberg, Sten Peterson, Bengt Pettersson, Per Welin and Christer Zetterberg were re-elected and Mats Guldbrand was newly elected to the Board. Per Welin was re-elected Chairman of the Board.
Pursuant to a motion from the Board, the Meeting voted that director fees be payable in a total amount of SEK 1,575,000, with the Chairman of the Board accounting for SEK 350,000 and each other Member of the Board, apart from the President, for SEK 175,000.

Also in accordance with a motion from the Board, the Meeting voted to authorize the Board to make decisions regarding the acquisition of Series B Lundberg shares during the period up to the next Annual General Meeting. The purchases are to be made on the OMX Stockholm Exchange and be subject to the limit that Lundbergs’ holding may not exceed 10% of the total number of Company shares. The Company’s holding of treasury shares currently amounts to 145,483 Series B shares, corresponding to 0.2% of all the shares in the Company.

The Meeting also voted to approve the Board of Directors’ motion concerning an incentive program for the Holmen Group’s approximately 5,000 employees. Under the program, the employees will be offered an opportunity to acquire at market price call options on Holmen shares. The intention is that Holmen’s commitment under the program will be secured through the repurchase of its own shares. The number of written call options may not exceed the equivalent of approximately 1.2% of the total number of shares outstanding and approximately 0.3% of the total voting rights in Holmen AB.

During his address to the Meeting, Company President Fredrik Lundberg reported on Lundbergs’ business trend. In the past ten years, the total return on the Lundberg share has averaged 16% per year. This may be compared with the return index for the stock market as a whole, which grew by an average of 10% per year during the same period. In 2007, Lundbergs’ net asset value, after the dividend had been detached, declined by 8%.

It was also reported that on April 7, 2008 net asset value after deferred tax amounted to SEK 482 per share, compared with SEK 490 per share on December 31, 2007.

Stockholm, April 10, 2008

L E Lundbergföretagen AB (publ)

This is the type of information that L E Lundbergföretagen AB (publ) must disclose in accordance with the Stock Exchange and Clearing Operations Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication on April 10, at 3:45 p.m.

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