The Company announces that the Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders that took place on 25/06/2009, has taken the following decisions:
1. The financial statements of the company year 1.1.-2008-31.12.2008 as well as the reports of the Board and of the Auditors were approved.
2. From the amount reserved for the disposal of the net profits of the company, year 1.1.2008-31.12.2008, an ordinary reserve amounting to 246.224,68 euro, as well as the distribution of a dividend of 0,10 euro per share. At this amount will be added the dividend of own shares namely 0,00073 per share and therefore the total amount of the dividend per share will be 0,10073 euro. Followint the withholding tax 10% the net payable dividend per share is 0,090657. Beneficiaries of the dividend are shareholders of the company holding shares at the closing of the Athens Exchange trading session of 22.07.2009 (record date). The ex-date is the 20.07.2009. The payment of the divident will commence on the 27/07/2009 through the PIRAEUS BANK
3.For the year 2008 the amount of 300.000 Euro was approved to be distributed to the members of the Board of Directors as per the item of the distribution list "Remuneration of the board of directors", the allocation thereof will be made by the board of directors depending the on the services provided.
4.The Members of the Board of Directors and the Statutory Auditors-Accountants were released from any liability for the company year 1.1.2008-31.12.2008.
5. Mr. George Varthalitis was elected as ordinary auditor and Mrs. Chryssula Tsakalogiani was elected as substitute Auditor, both members of the BAKER TILLY HELLAS A.E. Their renumeration will be fixed according to the remunerations of S.O.E.L.
6. The provision of a guarantee from the company in favour of Alpha Bank and Emporiki Bank in order to secure the bond loan of 60.000.000 euro issued by the subsidiary HDFS S.A. was approved. The provision of guarantees from the company in favour of banking institutions as security of loans that wil be granted to subsidiaries up to the amount of 50.000.000 euro was approved.
7. The election of Mssrs. Kouloukountis Elias, independent non executive member of the B.O.D., Mantzavinos Zacharias, non executive member of the B.O.D., Law Chiu Chuen non executive member of the B.O.D., as members of the internal audit committee persuant to article 37 of law 3693/2008 was aprroved.
8. General breifing has been made to the shareholders concerning the course of business of the company and its perspective.
On the abofe Annual General Meeting were present 43 shareholders representint the 51,66% of the total capital (17.020.565 shares).
On the above matters of the daily agenda the percentages of the present shareholders and the quorum are as follows:
Matter 1. 51,66% presents, 51,52% positive votes, 0,01% voted present and 0,13% voted abstain.
Matter 2. 51,66% presents, 51,19% positive votes, 0,12% voted present, 0,29% against, 0,06% abstain.
Matter 3. 51,66% presents, 51,48% positive votes, 0,12% voted against, and 0,06% voted abstain.
Matter 4. 51,66% presents, 51,60% positive votes, 0,06% voted abstain.
Matter 5. 51,66% presents, 51,48% positive votes, 0,12% voted against, 0,06% voted abstain.
Matter 6. 51,66% presents, 51,19% positive votes, 0,06% voted abstain, 0,41% voted against.
Matter 7. 51,66% presents, 51,48% positive votes, 0,12% voted against, and 0,06% voted abstain.
Matter 8. 51,66% presents, 51,19% positive votes, 0,06% voted abstain, and 0,41% voted against.