Bagsværd,
At the Annual General Meeting,
Resolutions adopted at the Annual General Meeting
Financial year 2023 and remuneration
- Approval of the Company’s statutory Annual Report 2023 and distribution of profits according to the statutory Annual Report 2023.
- The final dividend for 2023 of
DKK 6.40 for eachNovo Nordisk A and B share ofDKK 0.10 . The total dividend for 2023 ofDKK 9.40 includes both the interim dividend ofDKK 3.00 for eachNovo Nordisk A and B share ofDKK 0.10 which was paid inAugust 2023 and the final dividend ofDKK 6.40 for eachNovo Nordisk A and B share ofDKK 0.10 to be paid inMarch 2024 - Approval of the Remuneration Report 2023 (advisory vote), of the remuneration of the Board of Directors for 2024, of an indemnification scheme for the Board of Directors and the Executive Management and of changes to the Remuneration Policy.
Elections
- Re-election of
Helge Lund as chair of the Board of Directors. - Re-election of
Henrik Poulsen as vice chair of the Board of Directors. - Re-election of
Laurence Debroux ,Andreas Fibig , Sylvie Grégoire,Christina Law ,Kasim Kutay andMartin Mackay as members of the Board of Directors. - Appointment of
Deloitte Statsautoriseret Revisionspartnerselskab as the Company’s auditor in respect of statutory financial and sustainability reporting.
Shares and capital
- Reduction of the Company’s B share capital by cancellation of part of the Company’s own holding of B shares. The Company’s B share capital is reduced by
DKK 4,500,000 fromDKK 343,512,800 toDKK 339,012,800 . The Company’s A share capital ofDKK 107,487,200 remains unchanged, whereby the Company’s share capital will amount toDKK 339,012,800 . - Authorisation to the Board of Directors until the Annual General Meeting 2025 to allow the Company to repurchase own shares of up to 10% of the share capital subject to a holding limit of 10% of the share capital.
- Extension of the authorisation to the Board of Directors to increase the Company's share capital for a period of one year until
25 March 2026 up to nominallyDKK 44,650,000 .
The meeting was held as a hybrid meeting enabling shareholders to participate either in person or virtually. The shareholders had been encouraged to exercise their rights by submitting proxies or votes by correspondence in advance of the Annual General Meeting.
Composition of the Board of Directors and its committees
After the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Directors held a board meeting to appoint members of its committees.
The Board of Directors, including its committees, is now composed as follows:
Helge Lund (chair of the Board and chair of the People andGovernance Committee )Henrik Poulsen (vice chair of the Board, chair of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Audit Committee)Elisabeth Dahl Christensen (employee representative and member of the Remuneration Committee)Laurence Debroux (chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Remuneration Committee)Andreas Fibig (member of theResearch & Development Committee )- Sylvie Grégoire (member of the Audit Committee, the People and
Governance Committee and theResearch & Development Committee ) - Liselotte Hyveled (employee representative and member of the
Research & Development Committee ) - Mette Bøjer Jensen (employee representative and member of the Audit Committee)
Kasim Kutay (member of the People andGovernance Committee and theResearch & Development Committee )Christina Law (member of the Audit Committee)Martin Mackay (chair of theResearch & Development Committee and member of the Remuneration Committee)Thomas Rantzau (employee representative and member of the People andGovernance Committee )
Contacts for further information
Media: | |
+45 3079 9289 abmo@novonordisk.com | Liz Skrbkova (US) +1 609 917 0632 lzsk@novonordisk.com |
Investors: | |
Daniel Muusmann Bohsen +45 3075 2175 dabo@novonordisk.com | +45 3075 5956 jrde@novonordisk.com |
David Heiberg Landsted +45 3077 6915 dhel@novonordisk.com | +1 848 213 3219 mjhr@novonordisk.com |
+45 3079 6656 azey@novonordisk.com | +45 3075 8259 fptr@novonordisk.com |
Company announcement No 24 / 2024
Attachment
- CA240321_Resolutions from the AGM
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