03/28/2023
Baar, Switzerland
General information
| Date | Tuesday, March 28, 2023 |
| Doors open | 3.00 p.m. CEST |
| Start | 4.00 p.m. CEST |
| Location | Waldmannhalle, Neugasse 55, 6340 Baar, Switzerland |
The Annual General Meeting will be broadcast on the Sika website and shareholders will be given the opportunity to ask questions live during the Annual General Meeting via an online platform.
Dividend payment
At the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Directors will be proposing a 10.3% increase in gross dividend to CHF 3.20 per registered share (2022: CHF 2.90).
Ex-Date: March 30, 2023
Payment Date: April 3, 2023
Voting
Attendance at the Annual General Meeting
Only shareholders entered in the share register as at March 23, 2023 are entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting. Shareholders have the option of voting in person, through a proxy, or remotely by issuing electronic authorizations and instructions to the independent proxy.
Shareholders entered in the share register up to and including March 20, 2023 as shareholders with voting rights will receive, together with the invitation to the Annual General Meeting, a reply card that they can use to order the admission card and the voting material or to issue a proxy. Further, they will receive information on e-Voting together with the individual one-time code to access the voting website www.gvmanager-live.ch/sika. Shareholders are requested to send the reply card to the share register of Sika AG (Sika AG, c/o Devigus Shareholder Services, Birkenstrasse 47, 6343 Rotkreuz) by March 23, 2023 at the latest. Shareholders whose registration in the share register with voting rights is made on or after March 21, 2023 and who wish to attend the Annual General Meeting are asked to contact the share register of Sika AG.
No further registrations of voting rights will be carried out in the period from March 24, 2023 to March 28, 2023. Shareholders who are registered with voting rights as at March 24, 2023, but who sell their shares prior to the Annual General Meeting, will lose their shareholder rights in respect of the shares sold. Shareholders whose shareholding changes between March 24, 2023 and March 28, 2023 and who have already received an admission card will not receive a new admission card but a voting device with their current shareholding at the admission counter of the Annual General Meeting. Proxies will be changed automatically.
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Representation by proxy at the Annual General Meeting
Shareholders not attending the Annual General Meeting in person may be represented by another shareholder with voting rights or by the independent proxy Mr. Jost Windlin, attorney-at-law and notary at Bright Law AG in Zug. In order to grant a proxy to a representative, the shareholder must fully specify the relevant person on the reply card. Shareholders are requested to send the reply card to the share register of Sika AG (Sika AG, c/o Devigus Shareholder Services, Birkenstrasse 47, 6343 Rotkreuz) by March 23, 2023 at the latest. The admission card will then be sent to the proxy.
Remote electronic voting by issuing authorizations and instructions to the independent proxy
Shareholders may cast their votes remotely by issuing electronic authorizations and instructions to the independent proxy at www.gvmanager-live.ch/sika Shareholders may use the online proxy voting, or change any instructions they may have issued electronically, up to but no later than 11.59 p.m. on Sunday, March 26, 2023.
Live stream and questions of shareholders
The Annual General Meeting will be broadcast live on the Sika website. In addition, shareholders will be given the opportunity to ask questions live during the Annual General Meeting via an online platform. Shareholders wishing to ask questions are requested to complete the registration form available with the individual access code under the following link up to but no later than 11.59 p.m. on Sunday March 26, 2023: www.gvmanager-live.ch/sika. Further information on the right to submit questions, including the authentication process and the use of the data provided by the shareholder can be found here.
Shareholders are explicitly made aware that it is not possible to exercise shareholder rights through the online platform www.gvmanager-live.ch/sika. These can exclusively be exercised by attending the Annual General Meeting in person or through another shareholder with voting rights or the independent proxy.
Shareholders are also made aware that the Board of Directors expressly reserves the right to take position on the questions in aggregated or individual form or to limit the speech time.