The Board of Directors has decided that shareholders shall be able to exercise their voting rights at the AGM also by postal voting in accordance with the provisions in Inwido’s Articles of Association.
Right to participate and notification
A) Participation at the meeting venue
Shareholders who wish to attend the meeting venue in person or by proxy must
Shareholders who are represented by proxy shall issue a written, dated and signed power of attorney to the proxy. If the power of attorney has been issued by a legal entity, a copy of the registration certificate, or if such document does not exist, equivalent authorization document listing the authorized signatories must be attached. In order to facilitate registration at the AGM, the power of attorney and registration certificate as well as other authorization documents shall be received by the company at the address stated above no later than Friday 10 May 2024. Proxy forms in Swedish and English are available upon request and will be available at the company and on the company’s website, www.inwido.com. A power of attorney is valid one year from its issue or such longer time period stated in the power of attorney, however not more than five years.
B) Participation by postal voting
Shareholders who wish to participate in the AGM by postal voting must
A person who wishes to attend the meeting venue in person or by proxy must give notice in accordance with A) above. Hence, a notice of participation only through postal voting is not sufficient for a person who wishes to attend the meeting venue.
A special form shall be used for postal voting. The postal voting form is available at the company’s website, www.inwido.com, under the section General Meetings. The completed and signed postal voting form may be sent by mail to Inwido AB (publ), Engelbrektsgatan 15, SE-211 33 Malmö or by email to agm@inwido.com. The completed form must be received by Inwido no later than Friday 10 May 2024.
The shareholders may not provide special instructions or conditions to the postal vote. If so, the entire postal vote is invalid. Further instructions and terms can be found in the postal voting form.
If shareholders submit their postal vote by proxy, a written and dated power of attorney signed by the shareholder must be attached to the postal voting form. If the power of attorney has been issued by a legal entity, a copy of the registration certificate, or if such document does not exist, equivalent authorization document listing the authorized signatories must be attached. Proxy forms in Swedish and English are available upon request, available at the company and on the company’s website, www.inwido.com. A power of attorney is valid one year from its issue or such longer time period as set out in the power of attorney, however not more than five years. If the shareholder is a legal entity, a copy of the registration certificate or other authorization document, not older than one year, listing the authorized signatories must be attached to the form.
Nominee registered shares
In order to be entitled to participate in the AGM, a shareholder whose shares are registered in the name of a nominee must, in addition to giving notice of participation in the AGM, register its shares in its own name so that the shareholder is listed in the presentation of the share register as of Tuesday 7 May 2024. Such registration may be temporary (so-called voting rights registration), and request for such voting rights registration shall be made to the nominee in accordance with the nominee’s routines at such a time in advance as decided by the nominee. Voting rights registrations that have been made by the nominee no later than Friday 10 May 2024 will be taken into account in the presentation of the share register.
Proposal for agenda
The Nomination Committee’s proposal
13.1 Election of the Board
13.2 Election of auditors and, if any, auditor deputies
Proposals by the Nomination Committee (items 2 and 11-13)
At the annual general meeting on 6 May 2021, principles for the establishment of a Nomination Committee were adopted, entailing that the Nomination Committee shall consist of the Chairman of the Board together with representatives of each of the company’s three largest shareholders (based on the number of votes), according to the share register kept by Euroclear Sweden AB as per the last banking day in August each year. The representative of the largest shareholder (based on the number of votes) shall be appointed Chairman of the Nomination Committee.
The Nomination Committee in respect of the 2024 AGM has consisted of Chairman Jan Särlvik (Fjärde AP-fonden), Bo Lundgren (Swedbank Robur Fonder), Charlotta Faxén (Lannebo Fonder) and Chairman of the Board Per Bertland.
The Nomination Committee has proposed the following for the AGM.
Chairman of the AGM: Chairman of the Board Per Bertland.
Number of Board members: The Board shall comprise of five Board members without elected deputies.
Board of Directors: Re-election of Per Bertland, Kerstin Lindell, Henriette Schütze and Anders Wassberg. New election of Mikael Jonson. Christer Wahlquist has declined re-election.
Re-election of Per Bertland as Chairman of the Board.
Mikael Jonson was born in 1957 and graduated as a civil engineer. He has been a senior executive in several listed and unlisted companies and has broad experience as a board member in several different companies and industries. He also has experience from the window industry as he was a board member of West Coast Windows from 2012-2015, a company that has been part of the Inwido group since 2022. Mikael Jonson is today chairman of the board of four unlisted companies and a board member of one unlisted company.
Information regarding the Board members proposed for re-election can be found at the company’s website, www.inwido.com.
Auditor: In accordance with the Audit Committee's recommendation, new election of the registered audit firm Ernst & Young AB as auditor for a mandate period of one year. If elected, Ernst & Young AB has informed that authorised public accountant Martin Henriksson will be auditor-in-charge.
Fees to the Board members, the Committee members and the auditors:
Board member not employed by the company: SEK 345,000 (previously 335,000)
The Chairman of the Board: SEK 860,000 (previously 775,000)
Member of the Audit Committee: SEK 75,000 (previously 50,000)
The Chairman of the Audit Committee: SEK 150,000 (previously 130,000)
Member and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee: SEK 30,000 (previously 25,000)
Fee to the auditor in accordance with special agreement regarding the fee.
Preparation and approval of the voting list (item 3)
The voting list proposed for approval is the voting list drawn up by the company, based on the AGM’s register of shareholders, shareholders having given notice of participation and being present at the meeting venue, and postal votes received.
Dividend (item 10 b)
The Board has proposed a dividend of SEK 6.50 per share (6.50). As record date for the dividend the Board has proposed Monday 20 May 2024. If the AGM resolves in accordance with the proposal, the dividend is expected to be paid by Euroclear Sweden AB starting Thursday 23 May 2024.
The Board’s proposal on authorization for the Board to resolve on new share issues (item 15)
The Board proposes that the AGM resolves to authorize the Board to resolve on new issues of shares on the following terms and conditions:
The purpose of the above authorization and the reason for the deviation from the shareholders’ preferential right is to enable the company, by way of issues of new shares for payment in cash, in kind or through set-off, to strengthen the company’s ability to carry out or finance company acquisitions, or to strengthen the company’s capital base in connection therewith.
The Board, or anyone appointed by the Board, shall be authorized to make such minor adjustments of the resolution of the general meeting that may be necessary in connection with registration with the Swedish Companies Registration Office.
Majority requirements
Under the Swedish Companies Act, the resolution of the general meeting on authorization for the Board to resolve on new share issues requires the support of shareholders representing at least two-thirds of both the number of votes cast and the shares represented at the meeting in order to be valid.
The Board of Directors’ proposal for resolution on a long-term incentive program including resolutions on (A) new issue of subscription warrants and (B) transfer of subscription warrants (item 16)
The Board of Directors of Inwido proposes that the Annual General Meeting resolves on a long-term incentive program for senior executives and key employees including resolutions on (A) new issue of subscription warrants and (B) transfer of subscription warrants (the “Warrants Program 2024/2029”). The Warrants Program 2024/2029 is proposed to be principally carried out in accordance with what is stated below:
In the absence of a settled price for any of the days in question, the quoted bid price for that day shall be included in the calculation. A day with neither a settled price or a quoted bid price shall be excluded from the calculation. The calculated subscription price shall be rounded to the nearest whole cent (Sw. öretal), whereby half a cent shall be rounded down.
The Board, or anyone appointed by the Board, shall be authorized to make such minor adjustments in the resolutions of the Annual General Meeting, including appendices, that may be necessary in connection with registration with the Swedish Companies Registration Office and Euroclear Sweden AB.
The reasons for the deviation from the shareholders’ preferential right are that the Board of Inwido considers that an incentive program which offers senior executives and certain key employees within the group the opportunity to take part of an increase in value of the Inwido share, leads to strengthened interest for the Company’s profitability and share price performance and stimulates continued Company loyalty over the forthcoming years. An incentive program is also expected to contribute to the possibilities to recruit and retain competent, motivated and committed employees and, in the long run, the fulfillment of the Company’s business strategy, long-term interests and sustainability.
As the Warrants Program 2024/2029 is resolved by the Annual General Meeting, the program is not comprised by Inwido’s guidelines for remuneration to senior executives.
B. Transfer of subscription warrants
Transfer of subscription warrants under the Warrants Program 2024/2029 shall principally be carried out in accordance with what is stated below.
|
Category |
Position |
Number of subscription warrants |
|
I |
CEO |
a maximum of 25,000 subscription warrants |
|
II |
Group Management (6 persons) |
a maximum of 10,000 subscription warrants per person |
|
III |
Senior Leaders (33 persons) |
a maximum of 5,000 subscription warrants per person |
The first allotment is expected to take place during May/June 2024, or as soon as administratively and legally possible. There will be no over-subscription.
Participants in other jurisdictions
For participants in jurisdictions other than Sweden, it is implied that allotment and further transfer of the subscription warrants is legally possible and that it, in the Board’s opinion, can be carried out with reasonable administrative and financial efforts at their established market value. The Board shall have the right to adjust the terms of the Warrant Program 2024/2029 to the extent required in order for issuance and allotment of subscription warrants to participants in other jurisdictions, to the extent practically possible, to be carried out under the same conditions imposed by the Warrant Program 2024/2029.
Costs, dilution etc.
The costs for the Warrant Program 2024/2029 mainly consist of the subsidy that may be paid in connection with the transfer of the warrants in accordance with above and the social security contributions that amount to this subsidy. The total cost of the subsidy, upon full subscription of the Warrant Program 2024/2029, is estimated at a maximum of approximately SEK 2.91 million before corporation tax over the duration of the program. The subsidy corresponds to the option premium of a total of approximately SEK 4.71 million that the Company receives upon the transfer of the warrants.
[1] Calculated on an option valuation that is based on an estimated volume-weighted average share price of SEK 144.
Otherwise, the Warrant Program 2024/2029 is estimated to entail limited costs of insignificant importance for the Company, mainly attributable to social security contributions for participants residing in countries other than Sweden.
Assuming that all 250,000 subscription warrants in the Warrants Program 2024/2029 are exercised for subscription of new shares, the Company’s share capital will increase by no more than SEK 1,000,000, resulting in a maximum dilution effect equivalent to approximately 0.4 percent. Inwido already has two ongoing incentive programs, Warrant Program 2021/2026, which comprise 94 500 granted warrants and Warrants Program 2022/2028, which comprise 108,500 granted warrants, corresponding to a total dilution effect, for the two Warrant Programs, of approximately 0.4 percent. The warrant program 2023/2028, which was adopted at the annual general meeting 2023, was never launched as the management were registered as insiders during the notification period and thereafter due to a change of CEO, and thus no warrants have been issued under this program. In total, the Warrants Programs 2021/2026, 2022/2027 and 2024/2029 may entail a maximum dilution effect of approximately 0.8 percent.
The above is subject to re-calculations of the subscription warrants in accordance with the customary terms stated in the complete terms and conditions. All dilution effects have been calculated as the number of additional shares in each program in relation to the number of existing plus additional shares in each program.
In the event of full dilution as a result of the Warrants Program 2024/2029, the key figure earnings per share for the full year 2023 had been reduced by approximately SEK 0.05 from SEK 11.72 to SEK 11.67.
Preparation of the proposal
The Warrants Program 2024/2029 was initiated of the Board of the company and prepared in consultation with external advisors. The proposal from the Board has been prepared by the Remuneration Committee and by the Board in its entirety.
Majority requirements
The resolution of the general meeting in accordance with the Board's proposals under section A-B above is proposed to be adopted as one joint resolution. A valid resolution requires that shareholders representing at least nine tenths (9/10) of the votes cast and shares represented at the Annual General Meeting support the resolution.
Documents
The Nomination Committee’s reasoned statement regarding its proposal for Board is available on the company’s website, www.inwido.com. Financial statements, the auditor’s report, other documents under item 7, the Board’s report pursuant to Chapter 8, Section 53 a of the Swedish Companies Act and the Board’s complete proposals for resolutions under items 15-16 will be available at the company’s head office, Engelbrektsgatan 15, SE-211 33 Malmö, and on www.inwido.com, as from Thursday 25 April 2024 at the latest and will be sent free of charge to shareholders upon request and state their postal address.
Shares and votes
The total number of shares in the company amounts to 57,967,528. The company has only one series of shares and the total number of votes in the company amounts to 57,967,528. The company holds no own shares.
Information at the AGM
The Board and the CEO shall at the AGM, if any shareholder so requests and the Board believes that it can be done without material harm to the company, provide information regarding circumstances that may affect the assessment of an item on the agenda, circumstances that can affect the assessment of the company’s or its subsidiaries’ financial situation or the company’s relation to other companies withing the group.
Processing of personal data
For information about the processing of your personal data, see https://www.euroclear.com/dam/ESw/Legal/Privacy-notice-bolagsstammor-engelska.pdf.
Malmö in April 2024
The Board of Directors of Inwido AB (publ)