Stock Exchange Release
January 28, 2010 at 13.20 (CET +1)
Nokia Board of Directors convenes Annual General Meeting 2010
Dividend of EUR 0.40 per share will be proposed for 2009, same as the dividend per share paid for 2008
Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced that its Board of Directors has resolved to convene the Annual General Meeting on May 6, 2010 and that the Board and its Committees will submit the below proposals to the Annual General Meeting.
- Proposal to pay a dividend of EUR 0.40 per share
- Proposals on the Board composition and remuneration
- Proposals to authorize the Board to repurchase and issue shares
- Proposal to amend the Articles of Association
- Proposal to re-elect the external auditor
Proposal to pay a dividend
The Board will propose to the Annual General Meeting that a dividend of EUR 0.40 per share be paid for the fiscal year 2009. The dividend ex-date would be May 7, 2010, the record date May 11, 2010 and the payment date on or about May 25, 2010.
Proposals on Board composition and remuneration
Georg Ehrnrooth, Nokia Board Audit Committee Chairman since 2007 and Board member since 2000, has informed that he will not stand for re-election. Mr. Ehrnrooth has been a member of the Audit Committee since 2000, a member of the Personnel Committee in 2006 and a member of Corporate Governance and Nomination Committee since 2007.
The Board's Corporate Governance and Nomination Committee will propose to the Annual General Meeting that the number of Board members be ten, and that the following current Nokia Board members be re-elected as members of the Nokia Board of Directors for a term ending at the Annual General Meeting in 2011: Lalita D. Gupte, Dr. Bengt Holmström, Prof. Dr. Henning Kagermann, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Per Karlsson, Isabel Marey-Semper, Jorma Ollila, Dame Marjorie Scardino, Risto Siilasmaa and Keijo Suila. Additional information about the Board member candidates will be available in the Committee proposal.
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