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Annual General Meeting of Gerresheimer AG decides to pay dividend

Friday 15. April 2011 - At its Annual General Meeting today Gerresheimer AG looked back at the very good financial year 2010. The shareholders passed a resolution approving payment of a dividend of EUR 0.50 per share.

At the meeting of shareholders in Düsseldorf the CEO Uwe Röhrhoff summarized the year as follows: “The financial year 2010 went very successfully for us. Our products and services are very popular with our international pharma customers. We achieved our targets and actually exceeded some of them. We wish to allow our shareholders to participate in this success.”
“In the coming years we see further major growth opportunities, particularly in the emerging countries. We want to become the leading global partner for solutions which contribute to improvements in health and well-being,” Röhrhoff added.
The dividend of EUR 0.50 per share is to be paid on April 15, 2011. The dividend distribution is basically tax-free for shareholders based in Germany. No dividend was paid in the prior year.
With capital stock representation of 68.27 percent the General Meeting passed the following resolutions on agenda items:
ITEM 2: Appropriation of net earnings for the financial year 2010: Votes in favor 99.99 percent
ITEM 3: Formal approval of the actions of the members of the Management Board for the financial year 2010:
Votes in favor 96.34 percent
ITEM 4: Formal approval of the actions of the members of the Supervisory Board for the financial year 2010:
Votes in favor 98.52 percent
ITEM 5: Election of the auditor for the financial year 2011: Votes in favor 99.69 percent