The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Rottneros was held on 2 May 2019

Adoption of income statements and balance sheets
The AGM adopted the income statements and the balance sheets for the parent company and the Group for the financial year 2018.

Dividend
The AGM resolved on an ordinary dividend of SEK 0.40 per share and an extraordinary dividend of SEK 0.30 per share (in total SEK 0.70) for the financial year 2018. The record date for receiving the dividend is 6 May 2019 and the dividend will be paid out on 9 May 2019.

Discharge from liability
The AGM granted the Board members as well as the CEO discharge from liability for the financial year 2018.

Board
The AGM decided that the number of Board members elected unchanged shall be five and re-elected the Board members Marie S. Arwidson, Ulf Carlson, Per Lundeen, Roger Mattsson and new-elected Conny Mossberg as Board member. Per Lundeen was re-elected as Chair of the Board.

Fees for the Board members and auditor
The AGM decided that the following fees shall be paid to the Board members: SEK 550,000 to the chair of the Board (unchanged) and SEK 275,000 to each of the other Board members (unchanged). In addition to the Directors’ fees, SEK 20,000 shall be paid to each members of the audit committee (increase of SEK 10,000) and SEK 10,000 to each of the members of the remuneration committee (unchanged). The employee representatives shall be paid a fee of SEK 27,500 per person, for the time required to read materials ahead of meetings (unchanged). Auditors’ fees shall be paid based on an invoice approved by the CEO.

Auditors
The AGM decided that the company shall have a chartered auditing firm as auditor and re-elected KPMG until the end of the 2020 AGM. The authorized public accountant Jan Malm shall continue to be the auditor in charge.

Guidelines for remuneration of senior executives
The AGM approved the proposed guidelines for the remuneration of senior executives.

Complete proposals and decisions
The AGM approved all of the proposals presented by the Board and the Nominating Committee. The proposals are available in the previously published notice to attend the AGM and the decisions in the minutes of the AGM, which will be published at the company’s website.

For more information please contact:
Lennart Eberleh, President and CEO, Rottneros AB, +46 (0)270 622 65, lennart.eberleh@rottneros.com

The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, at 18.30 CET on 2 May 2019.

Rottneros is an independent producer of market pulp. The Group comprises the parent company Rottneros AB, listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, and its subsidiaries Rottneros Bruk AB and Vallviks Bruk AB with operations involving the production and sale of market pulp. The Group also includes Rottneros Packaging AB, which manufactures fibre trays, and the wood procurement company SIA Rottneros Baltic in Latvia. The Group has about 300 employees and had a turnover of approximately SEK 2.3 billion in the 2018 financial year.

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