The Company with corporate name "ALAPIS HOLDING INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL SOCIETE ANONYME OF PHARMACEUTICAL, CHEMICAL & ORGANIC PRODUCTS" and the distinctive title "ALAPIS SA" announces that the Annual Ordinary Shareholders Meeting held on 24/4/2009 was attended by 70 shareholders representing 292,110,154 shares, equal to 32.14% out of a total company shares (i.e 909,023,242 shares with voting rights), after deducting own shares.
During the Shareholders Meeting the following issues on the agenda were discussed and decided upon:
1) The Shareholders Meeting approved the annual financial statements of the fiscal year 2008 (01/01/2008 till 31/12/2008) with 99.80% votes of the Shareholders voted, as well as the Auditor's Report and the Management Report of the Board of Directors, while shareholders representing 0.54% of the voting rights did not participate,
2) The Shareholders Meeting with 100% of the representing share capital approved the profit appropriation for the year 2008 (01/01/2008 until 31/12/2008) and the dividend distribution of a total amount of 9,999,255.66 Euro, which correspond to 0.011 euro per share for the year 2008. The dividend beneficiaries are the shareholders registered as investors in the DSS system on Monday June 15, 2009 (record date). The ex-dividend date is Thursday June 11, 2009 (this date precedes the maturity date of the futures contracts and the options on FTSE/ASE Mid 40). June 19, 2009 is set to be the starting date for dividend payment through the financial institution approved for this matter. The company will inform investors regarding the dividend payment procedure with a new announcement,
3) The Shareholders Meeting with 99.80% votes of the Shareholders voted, decided the discharge of all members of the Board of Directors of the company for the year 2008. Moreover, it decided with the same percentage the discharge of the Certified Auditor of the company from any liability for the past year 2008, while shareholders representing 0.12% of the voting right did not participate,
4) The Shareholders Meeting with 99.80% votes of the Shareholders voted, decided the assembly of the Audit Committee under article 37 of L. 3693/2008, which will consist of Aristotelis Haralambakis, Nicholaos Karantanis and Eurydice Georgakaki, while shareholders representing 0.21% of the voting rights did not participate,
5) The Shareholders Meeting with 99.80% votes of the Shareholders voted, elected the auditing company "BDO PROTYPOS HELLENIC AUDITING COMPANY S.A." for the year 2009, which must appoint specific auditors, one regular and a substitute pursuant to the establishment of the above Audit Committee. Shareholders representing 1.87% did not participate,
6) The Shareholders Meeting did not decide on the sixth issue of the agenda which concern the authorization, to the members of the Board of Directors and the Company's Managers to participate in the management of companies with relative business activity, as the examination of this issue was not necessary during this Meeting,
7) The Shareholders Meeting with 100% of the Shareholders voted, approved the fees and remunerations of the Board of Directors members for the past year 2008 and determined the fees and remunerations of the Board of Directors members for the current year, as well as the fee of the Managing Director. Shareholders representing 1.78% of the voting rights did not participate,
8) The Shareholders Meeting did not decide on the eighth issue of the agenda which concern the approval to carry out contracts under article 23a of codified law 2190/1920, as the examination of this issue was not necessary during this Meeting,
9) The Shareholders Meeting with 99.8% votes of the Shareholders voted, approved the replacement of its resigned members of the BoD, as of 24/12/2008, while shareholders representing 0.12% of the voting right did not participate.
10) There was no other decision on other issues of the agenda and there were no other announcements at this meeting.