Mar 28, 2019 / 16:30 CET/CEST

Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 LR

AGM approves all motions as proposed by the Board of Directors

  • Distribution of CHF 22.00 per share – CHF 5.00 out of capital contribution reserves and CHF 17.00 as ordinary dividend
  • All Members of the Board of Directors, the Compensation and HR Committee, and the Chairman elected as proposed
  • compensation report 2018 and all compensation proposals for 2019 approved as proposed

Bad Ragaz/Switzerland, March 28, 2019.

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 of CHF 22.00 per share

The General Meeting resolved to distribute for the full year 2018 CHF 22.00 per registered share CHF 5.00 out of capital contribution reserves (exempt from withholding tax) and CHF 17.00 as ordinary dividend. The distribution will take place on April 4, 2019 with the ex-date being April 2, 2019 and the record-date April 3, 2019.

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 re-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 re-elected as members of the Compensation and HR Committee for a one-year term of office. The law firm Baur Hürlimann AG, Zürich, was re-elected as independent proxy holder for a one-year term of office. KPMG AG, Zürich, was re-elected as auditors for a one-year term of office.

Compensation

The AGM approved in a consultative vote the Remuneration Report for 2018 and approved the proposed compensation 2019 for the members of the Board of Directors and Group Management.

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