ANDRITZ AG Annual General Meeting approves dividend increase to 1.50 euros per share
At today’s 110th Annual General Meeting of ANDRITZ AG, the shareholders agreed to raise the dividend to 1.50 euros per share for the 2016 business year (2015: 1.35 euros per share).
The ex-dividend date is March 30, 2017, and the date of dividend payment is April 3, 2017.
Christian Nowotny, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ANDRITZ AG, was re-elected to the Supervisory Board for the maximum period stipulated in the Articles of Association (i.e. until the end of the Annual General Meeting that will decide on the discharge for 2021). Christian Nowotny was appointed a member of the Supervisory Board of ANDRITZ AG in December 1999 and has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board since March 2014.
All items on the agenda were approved by the shareholders present at the Meeting.
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The ANDRITZ GROUP
ANDRITZ is a globally leading supplier of plants, equipment, and services for hydropower stations, the pulp and paper industry, the metalworking and steel industries, and for solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial sectors as well as for animal feed and biomass pelleting. Other important business segments include automation and service business. In addition, the international Group is also active in the power generating sector (steam boiler plants, biomass boilers, recovery boilers, and gasification plants) and in environmental technology (flue gas cleaning plants) and offers equipment for the production of nonwovens, dissolving pulp, and panelboard as well as recycling plants. The publicly listed technology Group is headquartered in Graz, Austria, and has a staff of approximately 25,200 employees. ANDRITZ operates more than 250 sites in over 40 countries.