Mannheim, 16th June 2009 – MLP AG shareholders today voted in favour of all agenda items with a large majority at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in the Rosengarten Congress Center in Mannheim, Germany. Dividend payments of 28 cents per share were approved by 99.98 percent of votes. The Executive and Supervisory Boards were discharged with 99.97 and 99.95 percent of votes respectively.
Shareholders also voted by a majority of 99.24 percent empowering the Executive Board to buy back shares totalling a maximum of ten percent of share capital by December 15th, 2010.
99.99 percent of shareholders also accepted the proposal to reappoint Ernst & Young AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Steuerberatungsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, as auditor and group auditor as well as for the review of the semi-annual financial report 2009.
More than 750 shareholders attended the Annual General Meeting repre-senting around 76 per cent of the company’s share capital.
| Agenda Item | Votes in favour in percent |
| Resolution concerning the use of unappropriated profit as per December 31st 2008 | 99.98 |
| Resolution on the discharge of the Executive Board for the financial year 2008 | 99.97 |
| Resolution on the discharge of the Supervisory Board for the financial year 2008 | 99.95 |
| Resolution on the selection of the auditor for the financial statements and the consolidated financial statements for the financial year 2009 | 99.99 |
| Resolution on the selection of the auditor for the review of the semi-annual financial report 2009 | 99.99 |
| Resolution on the authorisation to buy back and redeem own shares | 99.24 |
| Resolution on the consent to the transmission of information by means of remote data transmission and the corresponding change to the company’s Articles of Association | 99.98 |
| Resolution on the amendment of the Company’s Articles of Association regarding the type of proxy rights at the Annual General Meeting | 99.99 |
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