Corporate | 21 May 2015 15:17

freenet AG: Annual General Meeting resolves dividend payment amounting to 192 million euros for financial year 2014

freenet AG / Key word(s): AGM/EGM/Dividend

2015-05-21 / 15:17

freenet AG: Annual General Meeting resolves dividend payment amounting to 192 million euros for financial year 2014

– Annual General Meeting resolves dividend of 1.50 euros per dividend-bearing share (previous year: 1.45 euros)

– Payout ratio of 72.1 per cent of free cash flow* (previous year: 72.5 per cent)

Büdelsdorf, 21 May 2015 – Following a constructive shareholders’ debate today’s Annual General Meeting of freenet AG [ISIN DE000A0Z2ZZ5], at which about 46 per cent of the share capital was represented, all of the resolutions proposed by the management were approved by a large majority.
The dividend of 1.50 euros per dividend-bearing share is carried out from the tax deposit account in accordance with § 27 Corporate Income Tax Act. The dividend will be paid thus without deduction of capital gains tax and solidarity surcharge. Payment date is 22 May 2015.

More information about the ordinary Annual General Meeting 2015 will be available shortly at http://www.freenet-group.de/investor.

* Free cash flow is defined as cash flow from current operating activities less investments in property, plant and equipment and intangible assets, plus the cash inflows from disposals of intangible assets and property, plant and equipment.

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Language:	English
Company:	freenet AG
	Hollerstraße 126
	24782 Büdelsdorf
	Germany
Phone:	+49 (0)40 51306-778
Fax:	+49 (0)40 51306-970
E-mail:	ir@freenet.ag
Internet:	www.freenet-group.de
ISIN:	DE000A0Z2ZZ5, DE000A1KQXU0
WKN:	A0Z2ZZ , A1KQXU
Indices:	TecDAX
Listed:	Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart

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