The 124rd Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Georg Fischer Ltd will take place on 15 April 2020. The event will take place at IWC Arena, Schaffhausen.
The official part of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting normally lasts between 90 minutes and two hours. Following the official part, a meal offered by the company will be served.
Only shareholders of Georg Fischer Ltd are permitted to attend the Annual Shareholders' Meeting.
Unfortunately not. Only shareholders are permitted to attend the Annual Shareholders' Meeting.
Shareholders will be sent a personal invitation by mail 20 days prior to the Annual Shareholders' Meeting.
Yes. For reasons of organization, no entries can be made in the company’s share register later than approximately one week prior to the Annual Shareholders' Meeting.
Please contact our shares office for any questions about the share registry, i.e. in particular the Annual Shareholders' Meeting.
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This is, of course, still possible.
In the event that you sell any shares listed on your admission card during this time, however, the right to vote for these shares no longer exists. In this case, the admission card sent to you, including all voting material, must be rectified upon entering the Annual Shareholders' Meeting.
In order for you to be able to attend the Annual Shareholders' Meeting personally, you must have an admission card. The reply coupon necessary for obtaining one is enclosed with the invitation and must be returned to Georg Fischer in due fine.
An early return of the reply coupon will facilitate the preparation of the share register. The admission cards, together with the voting material, will be following.
Yes. In the event that you are unable to attend the Annual Shareholders' Meeting in person, you can be represented as follows:
a) by another shareholder entitled to vote
b) by an independent representative
c) by your spouse.
Order your admission card with the reply coupon enclosed with the invitation. Fill in and sign the power of attorney on your admission card and send it together with the voting documents directly to the shareholder entitled to vote.
Sign the reply coupon enclosed with the invitation and submit it directly to the independent representative. On a separate form, which is also enclosed for this purpose, you can include exact voting instructions for each item on the agenda. Alternatively, you can give your voting instructions online to the independent representative. To do so, please follow the description in your documents.
A company listed on the stock exchange, like Georg Fischer, must designate an "independent person whose representation can be authorized by the shareholders" (Article 689c of the Swiss Code of Obligations). The independent representative exercises the voting right as prescribed by the voting instructions.
As soon as you have received the reply coupon, you can delegate the power of attorney to one of the representatives mentioned above.
Delegating your voting rights to another shareholder or to your spouse is possible until just before the registered part of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting begins. In the case of an independent representative, we kindly request that you take into account that an early return of all documents will facilitate the preparation of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting.
In the event that you have not received the material or can no longer find it, please report this at the information desk at the entrance on the day of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. You will receive your admission card and voting material after proof of identification and verification of your name being listed in the share register as a shareholder entitled to vote.
Please contact your custodian bank or report this at the information desk at the entrance on the day of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting.
Admission will still be granted.
The person chairing the assembly will ask whether anyone would like to take the floor before each item is voted on. Please make your request clearly and proceed to the microphone on the right in the front of the hall. Please limit your question to this specific item.
For Shareholders who would like to take the floor, a separate table is reserved on the right in the front of the hall.
You can also ask questions in writing, sending them in written form to the Board of Directors (address: Georg Fischer Ltd, General Secretariat, Amsler Laffon Strasse 9, 8201 Schaffhausen). In the event that you would like to expound on a particular item at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, you must attend the Annual Shareholders' Meeting and request to take the floor at the time of that particular item on the agenda.
In the event that you have sold a portion of your shares: You are no longer entitled to vote for the shares you have sold. Please report this at the information desk at the entrance on the day of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting so that you can obtain a rectified admission card and voting material.
In the event that you have sold all of your shares: You are no longer entitled to vote at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting and can no longer attend.
You are already a shareholder of GF: Under these circumstances, the purchase of shares can no longer be entered in the share register. Your admission card and voting material are, however, still valid (see "deadline").
You are a new shareholder: Under these circumstances, the purchase of shares can no longer be entered in the share register because (see "deadline").
In the event that an entry in the company share register is no longer possible, you are not entitled to vote at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. Nevertheless, in order for you to attend the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, we would be happy to issue you a guest card. Please report to the information desk at the entrance and show the receipt to prove your purchase of shares.
This topic is dealt with in a separate section of shares.