Apr 12, 2018 / 15:30 CET/CEST

Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 LR

AGM approves all motions as proposed by the Board of Directors

  • Distribution of CHF 20.00 per share out of capital contribution reserves, exempt from withholding tax
  • All Members of the Board of Directors, the Compensation and HR Committee and the Chairman elected as proposed
  • Compensation report 2017 and all compensation proposals for 2018 approved as proposed

Bad Ragaz/Switzerland, April 12, 2018. The shareholders of INFICON Holding AG (SIX Swiss Exchange: IFCN), a leading provider of instrumentation and process control software for advanced industrial vacuum processes, approved all the proposals made by the Board of Directors at today's Annual General Meeting in Bad Ragaz.

Distribution out of capital contribution reserves

The General Meeting resolved to distribute for the full year 2017 CHF 20.00 per registered share out of capital contribution reserves. The distribution is exempt from withholding tax and will take place on April 19, 2018 with the ex-date being April 17, 2018 and the record-date April 18, 2018.

Board of Directors, Compensation and HR Committee, Independent Proxy, Auditors

The Meeting re-elected all members of the Board of Directors (Dr. Beat E. Lüthi, Dr. Richard Fischer, Vanessa Frey, Beat Siegrist, Dr. Thomas Staehelin) and elected Dr. Beat E. Lüthi as Chairman for a one-year term of office as proposed. Dr. Richard Fischer, Beat Siegrist and Dr. Thomas Staehelin were elected as members of the Compensation and HR Committee for a one-year term of office. The law firm Baur Hürlimann AG, Zürich, was elected as independent proxy holder for a one-year term of office. KPMG AG, Zürich, was elected as auditors for a one-year term of office.

Compensation

The AGM approved in a consultative vote the Remuneration Report for 2017 and approved the proposed compensation 2018 of the members of the Board of Directors and Group Management.

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Corporate contact

Matthias Tröndle

Chief Financial Officer

+423 388 3510

matthias.troendle@inficon.com

 

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