Shareholders exercise their rights, including
their right to vote, at the Annual General Meeting. Every share entitles the
holder to one vote.
The Ordinary Annual General Meeting is held once a year – usually within the
first six months of each fiscal year. The agenda for the Annual General
Meeting, including the reports and documents required for the Annual General
Meeting, is also published here and can be sent by email, if so desired.
In order to aid shareholders in personally exercising their voting rights,
Beiersdorf AG provides a voting representative to cast shareholders’ votes in
accordance with their instructions. The invitation to the Annual General
Meeting describes how shareholders can give instructions in the run-up to the
Meeting on how their voting rights should be exercised. This does not affect
shareholders’ rights to have a proxyholder of their choice cast their votes or
to submit their votes by postal votes. In addition Beiersdorf AG gives its
shareholders the opportunity to use an online voting system to follow the
Annual General Meeting, as well as to submit postal votes and issue proxies and
instructions to the voting representative appointed by the Company.