Decisions of the Annual General Meeting of Teleste

Turku, Finland, 2017-04-07 09:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

TELESTE CORPORATION  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  7.4.2017  AT 10:00 

DECISIONS OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF TELESTE CORPORATION 

The Annual General Meeting of Teleste Corporation held on 6 April 2017 adopted the financial statements and the consolidated financial statements. The members of the Board of Directors as well as the CEO were discharged from liability for the financial year 2016. 

The Annual General Meeting resolved in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors to distribute a dividend of EUR 0.25 per share for year 2016 for shares other than those held by the Company. The record date for the dividend payment is 10 April 2017 and the dividend will be paid on 19 April 2017. 

The Annual General Meeting decided the number of members of the Board of Directors to be five. Mr. Pertti Ervi, Ms. Jannica Fagerholm, Mr. Timo Luukkainen, Mr. Timo Miettinen and Mr. Kai Telanne were elected as members of the Board of Directors. 

The annual remunerations to be paid to the members of the Board of Directors were decided to be as follows: EUR 48,000 per year for the chairman and EUR 32,000 per year for each member. Out of the annual remuneration to be paid to the Board members, 40 per cent of the total gross remuneration amount will be used to purchase Teleste Corporation’s shares for the Board members through trading on regulated market organized by Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd, and the rest will be paid in cash. 

The Annual General Meeting decided that the number of auditors of Teleste Corporation shall be one. KPMG Oy Ab, Authorized Public Accountants, was elected as the auditor of the Company and KPMG Oy Ab has appointed Mr. Petri Kettunen, APA, as the principally responsible auditor. It was decided to pay the auditor's compensation against an invoice approved by the Company. 

Shareholder Esko Kukkonen cancelled in the meeting his demand for conducting a special audit in the company. 

AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO DECIDE ON THE REPURCHASE OF THE COMPANY'S OWN SHARES 

The Annual General Meeting decided to authorize the Board of Directors to decide on repurchasing the Company's own shares in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors. Based on the authorization, the Board of Directors may repurchase a maximum of 1,200,000 own shares of the Company otherwise than in proportion to the holdings of the shareholders by using the non-restricted equity through trading on regulated market organized by Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd at the market price prevailing at the time of acquisition. 

The repurchase authorization shall be valid for eighteen (18) months from the resolution of the Annual General Meeting. The repurchase authorization revokes previously granted repurchase authorizations. 

AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO DECIDE ON THE ISSUANCE OF SHARES AND SPECIAL RIGHTS ENTITLING TO SHARES 

The Annual General Meeting accepted the proposal of the Board of Directors to authorize the Board of Directors to decide on issuing new shares and/or conveying the Company's own shares held by the Company and/or granting special rights referred to in Chapter 10, Section 1 of the Finnish Companies Act. 

New shares may be issued and the Company's own shares held by the Company may be conveyed either against payment or for free. New shares may be issued and the Company's own shares held by the Company may be conveyed to the Company's shareholders in proportion to their current shareholdings in the Company, or by waiving the shareholder's pre-emption right, through a directed share issue if the Company has a weighty financial reason to do so. The new shares may also be issued in a free share issue to the Company itself. 

Based on the authorization, the Board of Directors is entitled to decide on the issuance of new shares and/or conveyance of the Company's own shares held by the Company so that a maximum of 2,000,000 shares may be issued and/or conveyed in total. 

The maximum number of new shares that may be subscribed and own shares held by the Company that may be conveyed by virtue of the special rights granted by the Company is 1,000,000 shares in total which number is included in the above maximum numbers of new shares and own shares held by the Company.

The authorizations shall be valid for eighteen (18) months from the resolution of the Annual General Meeting. 

ORGANISATIONAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

The Board of Directors, which convened after the Annual General Meeting, re-elected Timo Miettinen as its Chairman.

TELESTE CORPORATION 

Jukka Rinnevaara CEO 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: CEO Jukka Rinnevaara, tel +358 2 2605 611 or +358 400 747 488 

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