常见问题：年度股东大会

The 130th Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Georg Fischer AG will be held on Wednesday, 15 April 2026 at the IWC Arena in Schaffhausen.

The official part of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting usually lasts around 80 to 90 minutes. Following the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, dinner will be served from approximately 4:30 p.m.

Only registered shareholders of Georg Fischer AG are permitted to attend the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. All shareholders who are registered in the share register with voting rights by the deadline of Tuesday, 7 April 2026, 5:30 p.m. are entitled to vote.

Unfortunately not. Only shareholders are permitted to attend the Annual Shareholders' Meeting.

Shareholders entered in the share register will receive a personal invitation to the Annual Shareholders' Meeting by mail as of 17 March 2026.

Yes. For organizational reasons, no registrations of shares will be made in the company's share register as of Tuesday, 7 April 2026, 5:30 p.m.

Please contact your custodian bank for any questions about the share registratiion, i.e. in particular the Annual Shareholders' Meeting.

This is, of course, still possible.

Together with the voting documents, you have received the proxy form, the admission card and the voting card. Please register for the Annual Shareholders' Meeting by the deadline using the proxy form (online or by mail using the enclosed reply envelope). The registration must be received by the company no later than Tuesday 14 April 2026 (by mail 08:00, or online 13 April 2026, 23:59).

Do not forget your admission and voting cards on the day of the ASM. Without admission and voting cards, you must identify yourself to us so that we can verify you in our share register.

Yes. If you do not attend our Annual Shareholders' Meeting in person, you may be represented by any other person capable of acting or by the independent proxy.

Please note the proxy on the registration/power of attorney form and authorize your representative on the back of the admission card. Then hand the admission and voting cards directly to your proxy.

You will find the corresponding option on the registration/proxy form. You may either delegate all your votes to the independent proxy or exercise your voting rights individually for each agenda item.

Alternatively, you may submit your instructions to the independent proxy online. Please follow the instructions provided in your documents.

An independent proxy is a person or institution elected by the shareholders’ meeting who is independent and exercises the voting rights of shareholders exclusively in accordance with their instructions. For listed companies such as GF, the election of such a representative is required by law (Arts. 689b and 689c CO). The instructions of the shareholders are implemented by the independent proxy in a binding and precise manner.

As soon as you are in possession of the registration/power of attorney form, you can issue the proxy in writing or electronically to a third person of your choice who is capable of acting or to the independent proxy. The registration/power of attorney declaration must be received by the company no later than Tuesday, 14 April 2026 (by mail 08:00, or online 13 April 2026, 23:59). 

If you have not received your documents or can no longer find them, please contact our share office in advance or report to the information stand in the entrance area on the day of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. After identification and verification that you are entered in the share register as a shareholder with voting rights, you will receive your admission card and voting material.

Please contact your custodian bank. 

Admission will still be granted.

A list of speakers will be available at the information stand, where you may register your intention to speak. Furthermore, a seat at the front right with an excellent view of the chairperson has been reserved for shareholders who wish to take the floor.

Questions may also be submitted in writing to the Board of Directors at the following address: Georg Fischer AG, General Secretariat, Amsler-Laffon-Strasse 9, 8201 Schaffhausen, or via email to gv@georgfischer.com.

If you wish to formally address the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, your attendance is required, and you must request to speak during the relevant agenda item.

If you have sold a portion of your shares: As you are registered in our register with the number of valid share votes, you will be able to exercise your voting rights with the corresponding number of votes. You are no longer entitled to vote for the sold shares.

In the event that you have sold all your shares: You are no longer entitled to vote at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting and can no longer participate.

You are already a shareholder of GF: After the deadline for registrations, the purchase of additional shares can no longer be entered in the share register. Your admission card and voting documents remain valid. See explanations on the deadline.

You are a new shareholder: The purchase of shares can no longer be entered in the share register after the deadline for registrations and these shares are therefore not entitled to vote at this Annual Shareholders' Meeting. See explanations on the deadline.

Read more about dividends and dividend policy here.