DaimlerChrysler Supervisory Board Elects Dr. Manfred Bischoff as its New Chairman
05 Avril 2007 - 12:42AM
PR Newswire (US)
* Hilmar Kopper Leaves the Supervisory Board After 17 Years BERLIN,
April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Following today's Annual Meeting,
the Supervisory Board of DaimlerChrysler AG (NYSE:DCX) elected Dr.
Manfred Bischoff, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), as its new
Chairman with immediate effect. Bischoff succeeds Hilmar Kopper,
who was a member of the Supervisory Board for 17 years. The former
chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG was elected
as a member of the Supervisory Board of Daimler-Benz AG on January
4, 1990, and on March 7 of that year, the Supervisory Board elected
him as its Chairman. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020212/DCXLOGO ) Previously,
the Annual Meeting of DaimlerChrysler AG elected Prof. Dr. Clemens
Borsig, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG, as a
new member of the Supervisory Board replacing Hilmar Kopper.
Clemens Borsig's period of office lasts until the end of the Annual
Meeting in 2012. In addition, Manfred Bischoff was elected as the
new Chairman of the Presidential Committee and succeeds Hilmar
Kopper also in this position. The new member of the Presidential
Committee is Dr. rer. pol. Manfred Schneider, Chairman of the
Supervisory Board of Bayer AG. New Supervisory Board member Clemens
Borsig succeeds Hilmar Kopper as a member of the Audit Committee.
The Chairman of the Audit Committee is still Bernhard Walter,
former chairman of the Board of Management of Dresdner Bank AG.
DaimlerChrysler's shareholders also approved the distribution of a
dividend for 2006 of $2.002 per share. The total dividend
distribution amounts to $2,058 million. The item of the agenda
"Allocation of Unappropriated Profit" was approved with 99.81% of
the votes cast. The members of the Board of Management were
ratified with percentages ranging from 97.06 to 97.07 percent; the
members of the Supervisory Board were ratified with percentages
ranging from 96.07 to 96.22 percent. The additional items of the
agenda submitted by shareholders were only approved with a maximum
of 5.20 percent of the votes cast and therefore rejected.
Approximately 7,900 shareholders attended the Annual Meeting at the
Berlin Messe exhibition center (prior year: 8,100). 39.19% of the
shareholders' voting rights were represented at the Annual Meeting.
On April 5, 2007, the dividend will be paid out to those
shareholders who held shares on April 4, 2007. The curriculum vitae
and photographs of the Supervisory Board members can be found at:
http://www.daimlerchrysler.com/supervisoryboard. Further
information about DaimlerChrysler is available on the Internet at:
http://www.media.daimlerchrysler.com/.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020212/DCXLOGODATASOURCE:
DaimlerChrysler AG CONTACT: Han Tjan, +1-212-909-9063, or Julia
Engelhardt, +1-212-909-9062, both of DaimlerChrysler AG Web site:
http://www.daimlerchrysler.com/
http://www.daimlerchrysler.com/supervisoryboard
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