Gränges AB held its Annual General Meeting on Monday, May 12, 2025, and the following main resolutions were passed.
 
For more detailed information on the content of the resolutions, please refer to the full notice of the Annual General Meeting and the full proposals that are available on the company’s website www.granges.com.
 
Adoption of the income statements and balance sheets
The General Meeting resolved to adopt the income statement and balance sheet as well as the consolidated income statement and consolidated balance sheet for the 2024 financial year.
 
Dividend
The General Meeting resolved, in accordance with the Board of Directors’ proposal, on a dividend of SEK 3.20 per share and that the remaining profits are carried forward. The dividend is to be divided into two payments of SEK 1.60 per payment.
 
The General Meeting further resolved, in accordance with the Board of Directors’ proposal, that the record date for the first dividend shall be May 14, 2025, and the record date for the second dividend shall be November 14, 2025. The dividend is expected to be paid out by Euroclear Sweden AB on May 19, 2025, and on November 19, 2025.
 
Discharge from liability
The General Meeting discharged the members of the Board of Directors and the CEO (and the persons holding the position of Board member during 2024) from liability vis-à-vis the company for management of the company in 2024.
 
Board of Directors and auditor
The General Meeting re-elected, in accordance with the Nomination Committee’s proposal, Fredrik Arp, Steven Armstrong, Mats Backman, Mikael Bratt, Martina Buchhauser, Cecilia Daun Wennborg and Gunilla Saltin as Board members. The General Meeting re-elected Fredrik Arp as Chair of the Board.
 
The General Meeting also re-elected, in accordance with the Nomination Committee’s proposal, the registered accounting firm Ernst & Young AB as the company’s auditor.
 
The General Meeting resolved, in accordance with the Nomination Committee’s proposal, that fees payable for the period up to the close of the next Annual General Meeting shall be paid with SEK 940,000 to the Chair of the Board and SEK 395,000 for the other Board members elected by the General Meeting. Remuneration shall be paid with SEK 210,000 for the Chair of the Audit Committee and SEK 90,000 for the other members. Remuneration shall be paid with SEK 73,000 for the Chair of the Remuneration Committee and SEK 37,000 for the other members.
 
The General Meeting also resolved, in accordance with the Nomination Committee’s proposal, that fees will be paid to the auditor according to approved current account.
 
Resolution on approval of the remuneration report
The General Meeting resolved, in accordance with the Board of Directors’ proposal, to approve the Board of Directors’ remuneration report in accordance with Chapter 8, Section 53 a of the Swedish Companies Act.
 
LTI program for 2025
The General Meeting resolved, in accordance with the Board of Directors’ proposal, on the adoption of a long-term incentive program in the form of a combination of warrants and restricted share units (“LTI 2025”), whereby a maximum of 1,000,000 warrants and 500,000 restricted share units may be allotted to senior managers and other key individuals in the Gränges group. LTI 2025 will run for approximately three years.
 
The participants in LTI 2025 can only receive full allotment of restricted share units if the performance targets in the company’s annual incentive program, STI 2025, are met and the participant at the same time, for the market value, acquires all warrants that the participant has been offered. Thus, the performance targets for allotment consist partly of financial value creation and sustainability, and partly of the participant making a personal investment of warrants. Thus, there is a clear link between the performance targets and remuneration, and no participant receives any allotment free of charge. In order to make it easier for the participants to make a personal investment, the participants are offered a subsidy corresponding to 50 percent of the premium (“Net Contribution”), but in order for this to be received, the participant must remain employed at Gränges. If the participant has terminated its employment or been terminated within three years of the payment of the warrant premium, an amount corresponding to the Net Contribution shall be repaid to Gränges. The same applies if the participant has disposed of warrants acquired under LTI 2025 within a period of three years from the payment of the warrant premium. However, the repayment obligation shall be reduced in relation to how long the participant has worked in Gränges during the term of the warrants and in relation to the number of disposed warrants.
 
Each warrant shall entail a right to subscribe for one (1) new share in the company at a subscription price established by the company, or by an independent appraiser or auditor firm retained by the company, corresponding to 115 percent of the volume weighted average price of the company’s share on Nasdaq Stockholm during the ten (10) trading days immediately preceding the offer to subscribe for warrants, however not less than the quota value of the shares. The restricted share units are subject to vesting periods that will run over the period June 1, 2025, to ten (10) trading days from the date of publication of the interim report for the period January – March 2026, 2027 and 2028 respectively with one third of the restricted share units vesting per year. Payments relating to the restricted share units take place at the end of the vesting periods and no later than June 30, 2026, 2027 and 2028, and will only be made to participants who, at the time of the payment, haven’t terminated or been terminated from their employment, provided that no local laws or regulations exist entitling participants to payouts.
 
Based on the number of shares and votes in the company as of the date of the notice to the General Meeting, the dilution as a result of LTI 2025, assuming that all warrants are exercised for subscription of shares, will be approximately 0.9 per cent of both the shares and the votes. The restricted share units will not result in any dilution.
                                                                                    
The board of directors has the right to decide that participants, instead of being offered warrants, shall be offered the opportunity of a similar cash-based alternative. In order to hedge the financial exposure and the other possible risks that arise from the introduction of LTI 2025, the General Meeting resolved to authorize the Board of Directors to enter into one or more share swap agreements with third parties on one or more occasions on market terms.
 
Issue authorization
The General Meeting resolved, in accordance with the Board of Directors’ proposal, to authorize the Board of Directors to, on one or more occasions until the next Annual General Meeting, issue new shares and/or convertible bonds. An issue of new shares and/or convertible bonds can be decided with or without regard to shareholders’ pre-emption rights. The number of shares issued, or which may be issued by conversion of convertible bonds issued pursuant to the authorization, may correspond to a maximum of 10 percent of the total number of shares in the company after utilization of the authorization.
 
Share buy-back program
The General Meeting resolved, in accordance with the Board of Directors’ proposal, to authorize the Board of Directors to, on one or more occasions until the next Annual General Meeting, acquire and/or transfer own shares in the company.
 
Acquisition of own shares may be undertaken so that, at any time following the acquisition, the company holds no more than ten percent of all shares in the company. Acquisitions may only be conducted at Nasdaq Stockholm. The number of shares to be transferred may not exceed the total number of shares held by the company at any time. Transfers may be conducted on or outside Nasdaq Stockholm, including a right to resolve upon deviations from the shareholders' preferential rights.
 
The purpose of the authorizations is to provide the Board of Directors with greater opportunities to adapt the company's capital structure and thereby contribute to increased shareholder value and to enable the company to, wholly or partly, finance any future acquisitions in a cost-effective manner through payment with the company's own shares. An additional objective is to facilitate hedging of costs and delivery in relation to LTI programs.